Speaking strictly with HVAC related stuff in these temperatures. 1/30/19, I came to work (yes, Walmart still pays me just enough to suffer through life) to find out that the coolers were bad and EVERYTHING industrially refrigerated needed to be tossed. Later in the night (yeah, it was -12F, I couldn't be bothered to give a damn), I went to my HVAC classes and the teacher was on about some of the things that temps like that could bring about (and he described word for word what happened at our store to make all of the refrigerated segments go bad). We didn't have much done at the store to fix things that would have made any difference anyway. By the time we got stuff in that needed refrigeration, it got warm enough outside that the refrigerant in the system finally started moving toward the walk-in unit and refrigerated walls. I brought it up to some higher-ups at our store and was promptly told to come back with certification if I wanted to bring stuff like that up (funny because the certified HVAC dude they did hire for that specific occurrence told them exactly the same damn thing).
I can sympathize with those cold cars. My little Grand Prix sat out in the open of -47 degrees of wind chill here in Nebraska. It fired right off but she was coooold and noisy! A good battery helps!
lol, I’m the part of Illinois I am in it was -25 without windchill, and about -55~ with windchill, and my parents left her 14’ a6 out the day before the crazy temps, so I went out there, checked the block for cracks, checked the fluids for frozen fluid, and it started like it was 90 degrees out, just astounding. but wait, there’s more! when it did run it ran like a diesel, with white and black smoke pouring out for about 10 mins or so, so that was a sight to behold! a 14 a6 supercharged running like a diesel. lol xD it ran terribly cause a. super cold. b. I’m assuming cause the crazy drop in temp that the rings and piston shrunk more than normal and let some of the pressurized lines leak a bit of oil in, and once it warmed up it ran fine and no more smoke. lol lesson learned don’t forget about your car with record breaking temps.
Fun experiment: Boil water and let it cool to room temperature. Fill a container with it and do the same with normal tap water which you have let warm up to room temperature. Put them both in the freezer and see which one freezes first.
That little CFL Has lived a good life lol surprised to see it's still kicking.. Big fan of your computer and Tech videos Decided to subscribe finally I do not know what took me so long But that's just how it goes I have been watching your Tech in computer videos for long time now Good stuff man I like your personality It always Makes me chuckle .😎🍻👍
We got hit pretty hard here in Wisconsin too. One of the mornings it was -22 and the next one was -24. There were a lot of problems with frozen pipes here too. My house is fairly new and didnt have problems. Lots of car problems with batteries and frozen gas lines. Luckily I escaped that too with the 2013 GMC Terrain. A little late but the best of luck to you. Our mail was closed during the extreme cold.
It was below freezing in my state on Tuesday night-Thursday night and all of my cars complained about the power steering (whining), both fluid powered (my 2001 Intrigue, and my mom's 2007 Uplander LT) and electrical (my dad's 2005 Malibu Maxx LS). I also finally fixed the cooling system on my car: found a crack on the recovery tank return hose port, so I replaced it with a new one, kept the coolant tank cap and the low coolant sensor from the old one in case they break. Now my car isn't losing coolant, belt isn't squeaking anymore (the coolant leak caused it to squeak), and the temperature is at the right spot. Also, at my house, I dropped the temperature to 64F since one of the natural gas plants lost a line and exploded.
It got to 21 below here in Central Illinois. My car started but it was complaining. Power steering pump was whining and my power locks were dead until it warmed up.
-10 here last Wednesday, 60 today in Youngstown Ohio. I did not venture out to start the 90 Lincoln Town car on that cold day. The furnace and its new control module did fine here, no frozen pipes. I did add some supplemental heat to my room since it has 2 outside facing walls and I had to work from home. A 1996 DEC AlphaServer 2100 with 4 processors running VMS for Alpha V 8.4.
I have a 1968 Plymouth valiant with the Chrysler 225ci slant six. It got down to 1 deg. here in VA. I started it for the heck of it. It was so cold it was not firing on all its cylinders. It also had varnish in the gas... (tank sat for 11 years with gas in it and it oxidized. And is mixing with the good gas i put in it. but the thing started on the 2nd crank and really was chopping up going into fast idle. Its carbureted of corse lol
Not only there. It is also extremely cold here in Alberta at the same time. Down to -30°C for a week. Nothing is running except the county bus. Edit: that cold spell lasted 3 weeks.
Kids now days don't know what it was like with a carburetor on the old vehicles. You'd pump and pump the gas pedal trying to get the things started... and hope you didn't flood the engine in the process. When or if it started you had to keep it running..... down the street and it was heel- toe on the gas and brake pedals to stop while keeping the cold engine running. Automatic chokes helped if you could keep them working. Ah, the good old days. Fuel injection and precise metering of fuel amounts is why most any vehicle can now go 150 K miles and more now days. Also why starters last much longer now.
Wed Jan 30 we hit all time lows for cold temperatures -28 and up to -50 windchills in Iowa. Yes any exposed skin can get frost bite within 5 min in extreme windchills. Thanks for sharing
Up here we were looking at -23C a couple of mornings, and my little 2011 Mazda 2 with what I think is the factory battery still started. Slowly, with much dimming of lights, but it did start.
Funny to hear you talk about the USPS. I work in WV - it wasn't nearly as cold as some areas (Around -2F and -22F wind chill) and it was pretty brutal. I don't know how any carrier who lives in a climate where the temperature starts below -10F before the wind chill is even factored does it. Speaking of cold starts, I was pleasantly surprised in this cold snap. I just bought a used VW Jetta "Clean" Diesel, and wasn't sure what to expect when the temps got below 0. Turned the key over, waited about 3 seconds for the glow plug light to go out, and it fired right up. Nothing like the old diesels I have experience with. I have a friend with a early 90s Ford Diesel and while it's a fantastically reliable engine (I believe he has over 400k on it) once it drops below 15 degrees it's nearly impossible to start.
We got to -18 here in N.E. PA. plus the wind chills. Tomorrow 2 4 2019 it will be 50. Had to leave the water running to keep the pipes from freezing. Thanks for the video i knew you would do one.
I keep a CFL running 24/7 outside. I had one last four years or so, but ever winter we've had where the power went out, the CFL cracks when the power is restored.
Might be worth picking up an LED bulb. Those things are cheap enough now and are much better at dealing with cold in my experience. I got sick of waiting 10 minutes for the CFL I had on my front porch to reach full brightness in the winter.
The CFL at my front porch was so very dim at 13ºF. So were some of the street lights. Impalas. I drove one in 2010 for a driving course I took. They don't do bad for 75 mph in a parking lot.
Ah, I remember this winter. The temps were _brutal._ I live in Wisconsin which is above Illinois. Schools had to be closed 5 or so times in a row because it was that dangerously cold. They nearly couldn't meet the requirement for the amount of hours students are required to be in school by law and had to make adjustments to the schedule... It was weird.
Up in Minnesota, we had a whole week of snow days for school and -20F for the first part of the week. This morning every bit of pavement was coated in ice so I got to see an accident a few blocks down the road. I was as slick as lake ice.
Bill last week it was 46c over hear in South Australia that is way over 100f so hot i wasent hear i was over seas lucky but even now its in the 30c hear opposite of your weather
I had to start my 2003 chrysler minivan in -34 F with bad gas and bad battery It failed me even with a booster pack on it I Had to come back the next day with a jumper cable and my honda and even after having its battery thaw and charge inside it still wouldent start then I sprayed barkecleaner in it while it was starting then it finally reved to life and I had to hold the throttle open 10% to keep it idiling so it must have had bad gas It had a nice hose going into the airbox that I could pull off to spray the barkecleaner into I work nightshift and didnt start it at all during the day so it got plenty cold during my 13 hr shift and it was at work and I had no jumper cables and the pair I borrowed was junk always have a decent pair of jumper cables and a can of starter fluid in your vehicle
I live in MN and the temps dropped down to around -30 F (-60 F with windchill) where I live. I decided that I would take the day off of work only if my 1993 Ford Ranger that I left parked out on the street for the last week or so would start and it did on the first turn. It was one of the only vehicles on the block that started without a jump. I had to let it sit and idle for about a half an hour as the power steering pump was screaming. I was kinda hoping it wouldn't start as then I would have a legitimate excuse to call in to work. But it was an easy day. Over 70 people called in sick that day.
Funny enough I was going to comment the same thing, my 2002 Ranger with the v6 3.0L Vulcan engine wines like heck when it starts in temps lower than about 20'F.
I dont comment a lot or hardly at all on your vids but, this is not my same youtube account I have always had watched your vids off and on now for a good while glad to see this here. I figured you got a good round of cold out of this last spell. In Kentucky most places with windchill factor last week seen probably -10 or maybe as much as -15 in places
This sounds cliche, but it from 0 to 60 here in NJ in less then a week! Not that I'm complaining. This part of the state didn't see negative numbers thankfully. My heat pump was screaming on those few cold days we had!
Something I have pondered as a native Iowan, though I moved south years ago... if Soda/Pop freezes in those temps... that would mean that the outdoor vending machines for beverages would indeed need to have heaters in them correct?
In Minnesota it got down to -22 F (I think it was around - 50 windchill) my '99 Cadillac Seville STS started up in this cold on it's 2nd try. After sitting out there for 2 days straight. None of the newer cars did that. The only problem that I had was that the door hinges was frozen up and took several attempts to close. And interestingly enough the sensor for the seat belt was also not working properly. (it works fine now that it's warmed up). My girlfriend's '98 Ford Expedition started, but it was so cold that her dashboard lights didn't work.
When it got down to -21 where I live, I tried to start my '74 GMC C1500 with a 250 straight 6. It was so cold thst it would not ever turn over, so I pulled the plugs and sprayed WD-40 down the holes. It did turn over, and I did that for a while to warm up the oil and build pressure. With my frostbitten hands, I put all the plugs back in, and gave it another try. With some starting fluid, it finally fired up after hours of trying. I did not run it for too long since oil pressure did not really come up at all (I am running 10W40 with a quart of Lucus).
Meanwhile, here in the UK, people were abandoning their cars in -5C & 3" of snow weather, because we do so amazingly well in winter, well, I say "we", I just sit here and laugh at people forgetting that winter happens every year... :P
-10 that morning here where i am (central illinois) that was just the temp. not wind chill, now its 60 degrees yesterday and today lol. my old roadmaster started up just fine that morning tho, its got the tbi 350 in it. have a remote start for it and it worked great.
Now I want to see what my featherlite thinks of these temperatures, especially due to it being a 2 stroke and DEAD simple. Weed wacking in sub 0 tempatures. An absolutely RIDICULOUS thought right there!
SPEAKING of the Cold Temp: I had a single digit two nights in a row getting cold and dry reaching 2 degrees in Fahrenheit (or -17 degrees Celsius), and sure enough, after two nights in a row, the temperature is rising back up to 20's, now to the 40's for the low temperature. By the way, I captured on camera one time at night while it's cold, I see the Full Wolf Blood Moon occurred at night, and it's so awesome too see the moon by my view and camera's view. That's extremely spectacular to see the effect the light on the moon.
Can always depend on a 3800 to start as long as it's getting fuel and a crank sensor signal. Fun fact: 3800s icm can fire the engine without a pcm present the pcm just communicates the advance and it functionally emulates a distributor
We got to -28 below up here in Mchenry county Bill it was insane. What a time to be a heating guy!! Made a mint :) Had one customer with frozen toilet water!
I haven't yet gotten my name far enough out there to have done a whole lot of heating work. In time I'd certainly like to. I bought a house that wasn't properly winterized and when the toilet water froze, a small piece cracked out of the trap. Looked fine until someone flushed it...
@@uxwbill I'm sure just like you did with computers, your reputation and word of mouth will have you with more customers than you'll know what to do with lol. Yeah that poor guy with the frozen pipes and toilets could do nothing but wait for the house to that and pray nothing split.
I drive a truck for a living, so the weather didn't stop me. When I got to my second stop in Toledo, my phone said it was -18 air temp, and a beyond cold -47 windchill. So cold that just one hour later my beverages were frozen solid and the truck almost refused to start. I'm from Michigan and am used to winter weather, but never in my life has it been that cold!
@@uxwbill The brand of truck I drive is called Hino, a subsidiary of Toyota. Unless it is specked with the auxiliary throttle, it has a 5 minute idle shut-down. Mine's the latter, sadly; it's a 26' box truck, usually the kind seen at grocery stores.
At 4:20 Dell Dimension 2100, the Celeron-based black case version of the Dimension L series. Is that the same one you did the Windows XP activation over modem video with? Always liked those oddly-constructed systems. I have three Pentium 3 L series and one 2100. Still work fine.
No, that one was rescued from the curb years ago, and shipped with Windows Me. It wore a lot of hats before the BIOS refused to boot from anything. It wasn't worth any more than the most basic of troubleshooting, which didn't work, so off it went after harvesting every remaining good part it had to offer.
@@uxwbill Still, I think it would be cool if it could still complete a post. I've encountered multiple computers which have given me a hard time when it comes to booting them off of live media, though they were actually fairly decent machines. (For example, an HP Probook with a Core I5 and 8gb of ram which refuses to open its startup menu.)
You and I have the same style doors and doorknobs in our respective homes. Even the door trim looks similar. Understandable considering we both live in rural Illinois.
@@uxwbill I would have thought that the cold would make the metal materials of the computer contract and damage the solder joints, or water would condensate inside the machine. I seem to remember now, though that it's temperature shock that damages solder joints and not extreme cold. In a way, such cold conditions might be somewhat ideal for a Pentium 4 Prescott machine or an HP Pavilion DV series laptop.
My old 1999 Subaru made some noise when I tried to start it so I left it alone. It did start at 8 below(Fahrenheit-I live in Chicago 'burbs). The amazing thing is it has a check engine light and qwill not pass emissions this March.Goodbye to you my trusted friend.
The weather has been all kinds of messed up lately. Here in NC its basically spring already. That never happens, February is usually frigid! Maybe I should box up some warm weather and ship it out to y'all!
I'm up by Chicago and I had to start my car when it was 20 below. It took 3 attempts and when it finally caught it *labored* up to idle. It was not happy with that.
Yesterday I had to pay the price of cheaping out on car batteries when none of my 6 cars wanted to crank, luckily my -79 Lada 2106 also has a hand crank, it was about the same temperature as you have
@@randomvideosn0where I've been thinking of buying one of those too, there are regular lead acid jump starters for sale for like 50 dollars here, but I just know I'll forget to charge it when I need it
Google says minus 7 f is minus 21 c brrr cold. I can tell you our 07 Pontiac vibe has started no problem in minus 20 c (with wind chill ), so can depend on your naughtyac vibe lol. And it's a good thing too that the car started. It was in danger of disappearing into a forming snow drift, there was also a tree near the drive way we were worried about snapping. If it had fallen it would've landed on the car
make snow The Snow-Making Process. Simply boil the water, go outside and brave the frigid temperatures, and toss a cupful or pot of boiling water into the air. It's important that the water be as close to boiling and the outside air be as cold as possible
I hate the thought of cold starts on my car, and hate the sounds it makes when I have to do it. I have a block heater I plug in if possible when it's under 60 degrees, for 3-4 hours before I start.
Well you sure do have some valiant automobiles! It makes me laugh to think that people here in Scotland can't cope when the weather gets to -6°C (21°F) and roads grind to a halt... What a world we live in, the UK has become very weak and feeble over the last 20 years I'm almost ashamed of it.
i say the iron block V8s will have the worst time in this cold weather, my parents 04 Z71 suburban 4x4 started and it was chugging like a old steam train for about 20 mins almost came close to stalling and even worse the drive train was sluggish like you where in thick mud.
Oh and is that a starter driver noise as you mentioned at 9:07 in the video. I have heard other vehicles and other model chevrolets make that noise when started at cold temps I always figured it was the power steering pump
I strongly believe but haven't proven that it is. It certainly sounds like it comes from there, and the timing is right. It also sounds like gears clashing.
@@uxwbill granted it could we had a 2009 toyota sienna the particular v6 toyota was using from 2007 to 2010 or so the starter gear would stick on it and do something similar when started in colder weather. Now we got a 2011 sienna with same motor but, they seem to redo things at least with this newer one it doesnt do that. I never really paid much attention to the old one doing that.
We had a CFL in our old bathroom, lasted almost 10 years even when left on for ages. Same with nearly all the CFL's I've owned or I've seen anybody else have over here in the UK, the one in my old bedroom lasted years aswell. Lasted longer than any LED or any other form of lightbulb. Strip lights are the same, we got nearly 10 years out most of em in my workplaces kitchen (they all still worked when we got rid of em) before we replaced em with LED squares and we've had to replace 3 or 4 of em already in just 6 months. Then again I suppose they're basically the same sort of lightbulb as CFL's. Truly appalling in my opinion but there ye go.
Very true, I've still got my first CFL I got in the late 90s and it's still going. So I just stick to CFLs. Where I work they installed LED lights and some don't even make it 1 year.
I live up in caroll county, -38 wasn't fun. Then you had the wind chill at -60. We had a high of -17°Freedom. I didn't bother to try and start anything by old furnace was running basically at 90% of the time, I live in a 112 year old house.
Hey Bill. A great big congratulations on you actually getting those cold starts on all those vehicles started! :) I'm so proud of you! :) You sure rock & roll when it comes to doing all those cold starts! :) What do you think? :)
Paul Palumbo Jr when it gets below -20f in my town for about a week the city discounts water bills and strongly encourages everyone to maintain a pencil width stream at all times
I had a pipe freeze and burst and it was a record - 7.Celsius thats a 67 year old Australian house for you and of course the one in the ceiling and when you go out for a few hrs as well. it does get cold were I am in Winter ,but in summer now we did have weeks of about 45.C all i got from the cold tap was warm water hehhe.
Speaking strictly with HVAC related stuff in these temperatures. 1/30/19, I came to work (yes, Walmart still pays me just enough to suffer through life) to find out that the coolers were bad and EVERYTHING industrially refrigerated needed to be tossed. Later in the night (yeah, it was -12F, I couldn't be bothered to give a damn), I went to my HVAC classes and the teacher was on about some of the things that temps like that could bring about (and he described word for word what happened at our store to make all of the refrigerated segments go bad). We didn't have much done at the store to fix things that would have made any difference anyway. By the time we got stuff in that needed refrigeration, it got warm enough outside that the refrigerant in the system finally started moving toward the walk-in unit and refrigerated walls. I brought it up to some higher-ups at our store and was promptly told to come back with certification if I wanted to bring stuff like that up (funny because the certified HVAC dude they did hire for that specific occurrence told them exactly the same damn thing).
You sound like you should be a radio personality
I'm actually slightly serious when I say "if you know someone who is hiring"...
I don't have any formal background in radio, however.
At this rate Bill, you may want to haul out an army of Pentium 4 computers to combat the freezer of the gods
I can sympathize with those cold cars. My little Grand Prix sat out in the open of -47 degrees of wind chill here in Nebraska. It fired right off but she was coooold and noisy!
A good battery helps!
Meanwhile in the lovely state of Georgia... We were in the 30s and 40s. And now in the 60s. Winter needs to make up its mind.
lol, I’m the part of Illinois I am in it was -25 without windchill, and about -55~ with windchill, and my parents left her 14’ a6 out the day before the crazy temps, so I went out there, checked the block for cracks, checked the fluids for frozen fluid, and it started like it was 90 degrees out, just astounding. but wait, there’s more! when it did run it ran like a diesel, with white and black smoke pouring out for about 10 mins or so, so that was a sight to behold! a 14 a6 supercharged running like a diesel. lol xD it ran terribly cause a. super cold. b. I’m assuming cause the crazy drop in temp that the rings and piston shrunk more than normal and let some of the pressurized lines leak a bit of oil in, and once it warmed up it ran fine and no more smoke. lol lesson learned don’t forget about your car with record breaking temps.
Fun experiment: Boil water and let it cool to room temperature. Fill a container with it and do the same with normal tap water which you have let warm up to room temperature. Put them both in the freezer and see which one freezes first.
That little CFL Has lived a good life lol surprised to see it's still kicking.. Big fan of your computer and Tech videos Decided to subscribe finally I do not know what took me so long But that's just how it goes I have been watching your Tech in computer videos for long time now Good stuff man I like your personality It always Makes me chuckle .😎🍻👍
We got hit pretty hard here in Wisconsin too. One of the mornings it was -22 and the next one was -24. There were a lot of problems with frozen pipes here too. My house is fairly new and didnt have problems. Lots of car problems with batteries and frozen gas lines. Luckily I escaped that too with the 2013 GMC Terrain. A little late but the best of luck to you. Our mail was closed during the extreme cold.
It was below freezing in my state on Tuesday night-Thursday night and all of my cars complained about the power steering (whining), both fluid powered (my 2001 Intrigue, and my mom's 2007 Uplander LT) and electrical (my dad's 2005 Malibu Maxx LS). I also finally fixed the cooling system on my car: found a crack on the recovery tank return hose port, so I replaced it with a new one, kept the coolant tank cap and the low coolant sensor from the old one in case they break. Now my car isn't losing coolant, belt isn't squeaking anymore (the coolant leak caused it to squeak), and the temperature is at the right spot. Also, at my house, I dropped the temperature to 64F since one of the natural gas plants lost a line and exploded.
Just got the notification for this video while watching your review on the red f-150.
It got to 21 below here in Central Illinois. My car started but it was complaining. Power steering pump was whining and my power locks were dead until it warmed up.
-10 here last Wednesday, 60 today in Youngstown Ohio. I did not venture out to start the 90 Lincoln Town car on that cold day. The furnace and its new control module did fine here, no frozen pipes. I did add some supplemental heat to my room since it has 2 outside facing walls and I had to work from home. A 1996 DEC AlphaServer 2100 with 4 processors running VMS for Alpha V 8.4.
Here in Calgary canada it's - 40C (-40F) with the windchill and it's miserable to be outside. It's actually much colder than usual.
I have a 1968 Plymouth valiant with the Chrysler 225ci slant six. It got down to 1 deg. here in VA. I started it for the heck of it. It was so cold it was not firing on all its cylinders. It also had varnish in the gas... (tank sat for 11 years with gas in it and it oxidized. And is mixing with the good gas i put in it. but the thing started on the 2nd crank and really was chopping up going into fast idle. Its carbureted of corse lol
Great video! Love the ad of the CFL @ end! Lol
Same here! Haha
Not only there. It is also extremely cold here in Alberta at the same time. Down to -30°C for a week. Nothing is running except the county bus.
Edit: that cold spell lasted 3 weeks.
Thought you would do a cold start on the lamp in the thumbnail😂😂
same here buddy XD
It wasn't really happy.
Kids now days don't know what it was like with a carburetor on the old vehicles. You'd pump and pump the gas pedal trying to get the things started... and hope you didn't flood the engine in the process. When or if it started you had to keep it running..... down the street and it was heel- toe on the gas and brake pedals to stop while keeping the cold engine running. Automatic chokes helped if you could keep them working. Ah, the good old days. Fuel injection and precise metering of fuel amounts is why most any vehicle can now go 150 K miles and more now days. Also why starters last much longer now.
Wed Jan 30 we hit all time lows for cold temperatures -28 and up to -50 windchills in Iowa. Yes any exposed skin can get frost bite within 5 min in extreme windchills. Thanks for sharing
Up here we were looking at -23C a couple of mornings, and my little 2011 Mazda 2 with what I think is the factory battery still started. Slowly, with much dimming of lights, but it did start.
Funny to hear you talk about the USPS. I work in WV - it wasn't nearly as cold as some areas (Around -2F and -22F wind chill) and it was pretty brutal. I don't know how any carrier who lives in a climate where the temperature starts below -10F before the wind chill is even factored does it.
Speaking of cold starts, I was pleasantly surprised in this cold snap. I just bought a used VW Jetta "Clean" Diesel, and wasn't sure what to expect when the temps got below 0. Turned the key over, waited about 3 seconds for the glow plug light to go out, and it fired right up. Nothing like the old diesels I have experience with. I have a friend with a early 90s Ford Diesel and while it's a fantastically reliable engine (I believe he has over 400k on it) once it drops below 15 degrees it's nearly impossible to start.
The low the other day was -28 here in SE Minnesota.
We got to -18 here in N.E. PA. plus the wind chills. Tomorrow 2 4 2019 it will be 50. Had to leave the water running to keep the pipes from freezing. Thanks for the video i knew you would do one.
That CFL looked like it was in a very old (possibly Bryant) K&T socket.
It was. That socket is covered in old paint. Otherwise it still works just fine.
It’s -25C with windchills below -35C here today. Days like today I’m thankful I park my car underground, though that may change soon.
I keep a CFL running 24/7 outside. I had one last four years or so, but ever winter we've had where the power went out, the CFL cracks when the power is restored.
ClayPF an LED lamp wouldn’t have that issue, my entire home is LED lit now.
Might be worth picking up an LED bulb. Those things are cheap enough now and are much better at dealing with cold in my experience. I got sick of waiting 10 minutes for the CFL I had on my front porch to reach full brightness in the winter.
The CFL at my front porch was so very dim at 13ºF. So were some of the street lights.
Impalas. I drove one in 2010 for a driving course I took. They don't do bad for 75 mph in a parking lot.
Ah, I remember this winter. The temps were _brutal._ I live in Wisconsin which is above Illinois. Schools had to be closed 5 or so times in a row because it was that dangerously cold. They nearly couldn't meet the requirement for the amount of hours students are required to be in school by law and had to make adjustments to the schedule... It was weird.
yep that classic ford power steering pump whine mine does the exact same thing in the cold
Up in Minnesota, we had a whole week of snow days for school and -20F for the first part of the week. This morning every bit of pavement was coated in ice so I got to see an accident a few blocks down the road. I was as slick as lake ice.
True two harbors was -37
Here in central Minnesota my weather station reported a minimum temperature of -30 on wednesday!
It’s been like 45-50 here in Northern Indiana for a good 2 day clip. Last week it was -40 with the wind chill.
That's mighty, mighty cold, glad to see everything started!
Looks decidedly terrifying out there.
Bill last week it was 46c over hear in South Australia that is way over 100f so hot i wasent hear i was over seas lucky but even now its in the 30c hear opposite of your weather
I had to start my 2003 chrysler minivan in -34 F with bad gas and bad battery It failed me even with a booster pack on it I Had to come back the next day with a jumper cable and my honda and even after having its battery thaw and charge inside it still wouldent start then I sprayed barkecleaner in it while it was starting then it finally reved to life and I had to hold the throttle open 10% to keep it idiling so it must have had bad gas It had a nice hose going into the airbox that I could pull off to spray the barkecleaner into I work nightshift and didnt start it at all during the day so it got plenty cold during my 13 hr shift and it was at work and I had no jumper cables and the pair I borrowed was junk always have a decent pair of jumper cables and a can of starter fluid in your vehicle
I live in MN and the temps dropped down to around -30 F (-60 F with windchill) where I live. I decided that I would take the day off of work only if my 1993 Ford Ranger that I left parked out on the street for the last week or so would start and it did on the first turn. It was one of the only vehicles on the block that started without a jump. I had to let it sit and idle for about a half an hour as the power steering pump was screaming. I was kinda hoping it wouldn't start as then I would have a legitimate excuse to call in to work. But it was an easy day. Over 70 people called in sick that day.
Sounds like you have a good battery. 🙂
as it is with the f-150 like my 98 ranger with the iron duke 3.0l its the power steering pump its common with ford
Funny enough I was going to comment the same thing, my 2002 Ranger with the v6 3.0L Vulcan engine wines like heck when it starts in temps lower than about 20'F.
I took a video of it when it was about -11'F and it just managed to start. ruclips.net/video/Z2j8_wuITpE/видео.html
I dont comment a lot or hardly at all on your vids but, this is not my same youtube account I have always had watched your vids off and on now for a good while glad to see this here. I figured you got a good round of cold out of this last spell. In Kentucky most places with windchill factor last week seen probably -10 or maybe as much as -15 in places
The artic blast got you too huh
This sounds cliche, but it from 0 to 60 here in NJ in less then a week! Not that I'm complaining. This part of the state didn't see negative numbers thankfully. My heat pump was screaming on those few cold days we had!
Over here in Scotland, it's snowing like mad just now.
-5-6'C a few days ago.
See the BBPOJ is still looking good HAHA.
8:15 speaking of paid time off accrued, Walmart decided to reinvent their system in favor of paying superior managers. youch!
Something I have pondered as a native Iowan, though I moved south years ago... if Soda/Pop freezes in those temps... that would mean that the outdoor vending machines for beverages would indeed need to have heaters in them correct?
Oftentimes they actually do, in the form of an incandescent light bulb.
In Minnesota it got down to -22 F (I think it was around - 50 windchill) my '99 Cadillac Seville STS started up in this cold on it's 2nd try. After sitting out there for 2 days straight. None of the newer cars did that. The only problem that I had was that the door hinges was frozen up and took several attempts to close. And interestingly enough the sensor for the seat belt was also not working properly. (it works fine now that it's warmed up).
My girlfriend's '98 Ford Expedition started, but it was so cold that her dashboard lights didn't work.
we were -34 with a windchill in the mid -50's here in NW minnesota. it was brutal
When it got down to -21 where I live, I tried to start my '74 GMC C1500 with a 250 straight 6. It was so cold thst it would not ever turn over, so I pulled the plugs and sprayed WD-40 down the holes. It did turn over, and I did that for a while to warm up the oil and build pressure. With my frostbitten hands, I put all the plugs back in, and gave it another try. With some starting fluid, it finally fired up after hours of trying. I did not run it for too long since oil pressure did not really come up at all (I am running 10W40 with a quart of Lucus).
Meanwhile, here in the UK, people were abandoning their cars in -5C & 3" of snow weather, because we do so amazingly well in winter, well, I say "we", I just sit here and laugh at people forgetting that winter happens every year... :P
-10 that morning here where i am (central illinois) that was just the temp. not wind chill, now its 60 degrees yesterday and today lol. my old roadmaster started up just fine that morning tho, its got the tbi 350 in it. have a remote start for it and it worked great.
Excellent cold starts, as always. Stay frosty!
Now I want to see what my featherlite thinks of these temperatures, especially due to it being a 2 stroke and DEAD simple.
Weed wacking in sub 0 tempatures. An absolutely RIDICULOUS thought right there!
SPEAKING of the Cold Temp: I had a single digit two nights in a row getting cold and dry reaching 2 degrees in Fahrenheit (or -17 degrees Celsius), and sure enough, after two nights in a row, the temperature is rising back up to 20's, now to the 40's for the low temperature.
By the way, I captured on camera one time at night while it's cold, I see the Full Wolf Blood Moon occurred at night, and it's so awesome too see the moon by my view and camera's view. That's extremely spectacular to see the effect the light on the moon.
Can always depend on a 3800 to start as long as it's getting fuel and a crank sensor signal.
Fun fact: 3800s icm can fire the engine without a pcm present the pcm just communicates the advance and it functionally emulates a distributor
My 06 impala ss dose not like the cold either but it dose start.
Cycle the key a few 3-4 times. Might help
It is more of hard cranking over in cold, that could be oil or battery.
-18 it your typical usual winter in my country, -38 is xtreme and rare, so -18 is far from extreme
We had - 25 f and - 52 windchill during that time. Also had a hot water pipe freeze
We got to -28 below up here in Mchenry county Bill it was insane. What a time to be a heating guy!! Made a mint :)
Had one customer with frozen toilet water!
I haven't yet gotten my name far enough out there to have done a whole lot of heating work. In time I'd certainly like to.
I bought a house that wasn't properly winterized and when the toilet water froze, a small piece cracked out of the trap. Looked fine until someone flushed it...
@@uxwbill I'm sure just like you did with computers, your reputation and word of mouth will have you with more customers than you'll know what to do with lol.
Yeah that poor guy with the frozen pipes and toilets could do nothing but wait for the house to that and pray nothing split.
I drive a truck for a living, so the weather didn't stop me. When I got to my second stop in Toledo, my phone said it was -18 air temp, and a beyond cold -47 windchill. So cold that just one hour later my beverages were frozen solid and the truck almost refused to start. I'm from Michigan and am used to winter weather, but never in my life has it been that cold!
I'm kind of surprised you shut the truck off at that temperature, and that it restarted afterwards!
@@uxwbill The brand of truck I drive is called Hino, a subsidiary of Toyota. Unless it is specked with the auxiliary throttle, it has a 5 minute idle shut-down. Mine's the latter, sadly; it's a 26' box truck, usually the kind seen at grocery stores.
@LAFOLLETTER I agree. I have relatives in the Houghton-Hancock area, which gets colder then that.
At 4:20 Dell Dimension 2100, the Celeron-based black case version of the Dimension L series. Is that the same one you did the Windows XP activation over modem video with? Always liked those oddly-constructed systems. I have three Pentium 3 L series and one 2100. Still work fine.
Imagine if the ones in the truck still worked after sitting in the cold like that. It really would be a testament to Dell quality if they did.
No, that one was rescued from the curb years ago, and shipped with Windows Me. It wore a lot of hats before the BIOS refused to boot from anything. It wasn't worth any more than the most basic of troubleshooting, which didn't work, so off it went after harvesting every remaining good part it had to offer.
@@uxwbill Still, I think it would be cool if it could still complete a post. I've encountered multiple computers which have given me a hard time when it comes to booting them off of live media, though they were actually fairly decent machines. (For example, an HP Probook with a Core I5 and 8gb of ram which refuses to open its startup menu.)
You and I have the same style doors and doorknobs in our respective homes. Even the door trim looks similar. Understandable considering we both live in rural Illinois.
uxwbill….Exactly what town are you in there ? Curious ..
There's nothing makes that relevant to the story, and I value my privacy.
Dunno kno why, but I feel like I am watching a video from the 80s or 90s
My car battery was covered in frost. As was my 454 c.i. engine - looked sick 🔥🔥
Always wondered, what is the 'keykeeper'? Thanks.
The Keykeeper and Bizzarefurhead are nicknames for two of his brothers.
DRWebster93 thanks!
I can only imagine what the cold did to those computers in the back of the Silverado.
Those were all thoroughly dead computers headed for recycling. They had plenty of good use.
@@uxwbill Well, I guess the freezing cold was the final nail in the coffin.
I doubt it would have bothered them. I've run computers both then and now in bitter cold equal to or beyond this and none of them ever failed.
@@uxwbill I would have thought that the cold would make the metal materials of the computer contract and damage the solder joints, or water would condensate inside the machine. I seem to remember now, though that it's temperature shock that damages solder joints and not extreme cold. In a way, such cold conditions might be somewhat ideal for a Pentium 4 Prescott machine or an HP Pavilion DV series laptop.
It was really hot here in Texas today. I was wearing shorts
That Ford pickup was cranky lol
I sound insane but I actually went out for ice cream that day when it was cold.
When it's time for ice cream, it's *time* for ice cream. Been there and most definitely have done that!
We got a foot and a half of snow in Toronto and about 3 days of -35.C, with the wind chill at times.
I'd love to have a foot and a half (or more!) snow fall! I'd be busy all day playing in it!
My old 1999 Subaru made some noise when I tried to start it so I left it alone. It did start at 8 below(Fahrenheit-I live in Chicago 'burbs). The amazing thing is it has a check engine light and qwill not pass emissions this March.Goodbye to you my trusted friend.
The weather has been all kinds of messed up lately. Here in NC its basically spring already. That never happens, February is usually frigid!
Maybe I should box up some warm weather and ship it out to y'all!
I'm up by Chicago and I had to start my car when it was 20 below. It took 3 attempts and when it finally caught it *labored* up to idle. It was not happy with that.
12:15 sounds like my lawn tractor transmission 😂
Was -25F I believe for us in Milwaukee, with Wind chill was -55.
yea i got up and went to work that day... -24 degrees. i'm glad my 06 impala started
I agree. Cold! Below 0.
Yesterday I had to pay the price of cheaping out on car batteries when none of my 6 cars wanted to crank, luckily my -79 Lada 2106 also has a hand crank, it was about the same temperature as you have
That's awesome to have a hand crank! I have one of those lithium jump starters that works pretty well if you don't let it freeze.
@@randomvideosn0where I've been thinking of buying one of those too, there are regular lead acid jump starters for sale for like 50 dollars here, but I just know I'll forget to charge it when I need it
watching this while sitting in 30c temperature room
Google says minus 7 f is minus 21 c brrr cold. I can tell you our 07 Pontiac vibe has started no problem in minus 20 c (with wind chill ), so can depend on your naughtyac vibe lol. And it's a good thing too that the car started. It was in danger of disappearing into a forming snow drift, there was also a tree near the drive way we were worried about snapping. If it had fallen it would've landed on the car
You can always depend on your Chevrolet that's forsure!
Too bad you couldn't start your dad's 1979 Cadillac Phaeton, I miss seeing that car in your videos.
It's in storage.
make snow The Snow-Making Process. Simply boil the water, go outside and brave the frigid temperatures, and toss a cupful or pot of boiling water into the air. It's important that the water be as close to boiling and the outside air be as cold as possible
I hate the thought of cold starts on my car, and hate the sounds it makes when I have to do it. I have a block heater I plug in if possible when it's under 60 degrees, for 3-4 hours before I start.
the steel rims on ruby, where did u get the silver center caps for em?
There's a video about that. They came from the old alloy rims.
@@uxwbill got a link? i have steel rims for the winter too but i hate how the center is all open
Well you sure do have some valiant automobiles! It makes me laugh to think that people here in Scotland can't cope when the weather gets to -6°C (21°F) and roads grind to a halt... What a world we live in, the UK has become very weak and feeble over the last 20 years I'm almost ashamed of it.
Ice cubes made with warm water DO freeze faster. Look up the mpemba effect.
i say the iron block V8s will have the worst time in this cold weather, my parents 04 Z71 suburban 4x4 started and it was chugging like a old steam train for about 20 mins almost came close to stalling and even worse the drive train was sluggish like you where in thick mud.
Thats awesome i saw one out in the country where my high school was and i will upload the photo soon
Oh and is that a starter driver noise as you mentioned at 9:07 in the video. I have heard other vehicles and other model chevrolets make that noise when started at cold temps I always figured it was the power steering pump
I strongly believe but haven't proven that it is. It certainly sounds like it comes from there, and the timing is right. It also sounds like gears clashing.
@@uxwbill granted it could we had a 2009 toyota sienna the particular v6 toyota was using from 2007 to 2010 or so the starter gear would stick on it and do something similar when started in colder weather. Now we got a 2011 sienna with same motor but, they seem to redo things at least with this newer one it doesnt do that. I never really paid much attention to the old one doing that.
My 2018 Yamaha Viking does it when it’s cold
We had a CFL in our old bathroom, lasted almost 10 years even when left on for ages.
Same with nearly all the CFL's I've owned or I've seen anybody else have over here in the UK, the one in my old bedroom lasted years aswell.
Lasted longer than any LED or any other form of lightbulb.
Strip lights are the same, we got nearly 10 years out most of em in my workplaces kitchen (they all still worked when we got rid of em) before we replaced em with LED squares and we've had to replace 3 or 4 of em already in just 6 months.
Then again I suppose they're basically the same sort of lightbulb as CFL's.
Truly appalling in my opinion but there ye go.
Very true, I've still got my first CFL I got in the late 90s and it's still going. So I just stick to CFLs. Where I work they installed LED lights and some don't even make it 1 year.
Does the Caprice still have it's 2012 battery in it, how many miles, and any problems in the last few years???
I live up in caroll county, -38 wasn't fun. Then you had the wind chill at -60. We had a high of -17°Freedom. I didn't bother to try and start anything by old furnace was running basically at 90% of the time, I live in a 112 year old house.
Bill international falls coldest place in the US -70 f not the wind chill just makes you feel warm
Has the extreme cold temperatures finally gotten the populace of the "roach palace" under control (if that place is still standing)?
There haven't been any roaches there in ages.
@@uxwbill Uhh? So what the hell is Bizarre Fur Heads source of food now?
Hey Bill. A great big congratulations on you actually getting those cold starts on all those vehicles started! :) I'm so proud of you! :) You sure rock & roll when it comes to doing all those cold starts! :) What do you think? :)
ALWAYS trickle all faucets during VERY cold weather
Paul Palumbo Jr when it gets below -20f in my town for about a week the city discounts water bills and strongly encourages everyone to maintain a pencil width stream at all times
I had a pipe freeze and burst and it was a record - 7.Celsius thats a 67 year old Australian house for you and of course the one in the ceiling and when you go out for a few hrs as well.
it does get cold were I am in Winter ,but in summer now we did have weeks of about 45.C all i got from the cold tap was warm water hehhe.
What in the world is that noise on the f150 omg!
"It's very dangerous to be out here"
Oh you Americans :P
You EFI guys are so spoiled, I wore my leg out filming my cold start. lol
If I had a carbureted vehicle to hand, I'd have certainly included it in the vehicle. The last one I had, though, didn't really need any pumping.
That is like minus 28 celcius. Yeahh.... Welcome to climate change. How well are your houses insulated for keeping warm during winther?