It doesn't matter, the block heater takes care of that for you... But since you asked back when I lived in an apartment we'd get the occasional -20F day when I'd strap the ole 240D behind the Dakota and it'd start right up after a mile or so. That was before I bought a marine battery to keep in the trunk to power my 400w inverter to run the block heater which made the car start like it was July.
You can't tell me nobody in Ottawa has ever driven a diesel in the cold before. If the 400w stock block heater is overwhelmed you install a radiator hose heater, those are usually 1000w and you have instant heat when the car starts. If its really cold you could even go to the Fairbanks package where you add a battery heater. Webasto even makes a key fob activated diesel fired heater. Truckers deal with these problems all the time... -Curt Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:31:07 -0600 From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] A lost cause? Message-ID: <4ec293cb.8070...@bennell.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed How cold does it get where you are? Randy On 14/11/2011 7:55 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > I have no problem with conserving a nice car but don't tell me you "can't" > drive it in the winter, thats lame. > > I've been driving diesels for the last 8 years, the newest was an '85, also > an '84 and '83 and now a '78 which I'm daily driving right now because my '84 > needs a carrier bearing. > > You COULD drive your car, plug in the block heater and it'll be warm enough > to start in an hour or two, synthetic oil would help but is not required, the > last winter I drove my '83 I used conventional oil. > > -Curt > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
