My power steering pump in my 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue does the same thing, and it got replaced 2 years ago when the old system blew up and had a big puddle of sadness on my driveway.
Ah, but the numbers tell a different story. Let's do a little ciphering. I have uploaded 973 videos, most of which are public. (Those that aren't have some special purpose.) I've been on RUclips for right around nine years as of this writing (wow). That's a new video uploaded approximately every three days, were the distribution to be equal. (Of course it isn't, since I have a life and obligations outside of RUclips. And sometimes I take a break.) Of course, videos just fly by if you are binge watching, which is something people have actually _done_ with my videos, though I will never really understand why. (Then again, I get tired of the same thing over and over again in the long term. I like to keep things varied.)
Found the issue with the steering on my Intrigue: the reservoir was leaking. Ended up replacing it a couple of months ago (pump/reservoir combo) and no issues any longer.
Good to see another cold start video! We haven't had any problems this year (probably due to the fact the temperatures have never dropped below -5*C here in Scotland!) with either the 2000 Ford Focus 1.8 or my 1996 Peugeot 405 1.9 turbo diesel. That said, the latter did require new glow plugs in November when they all quit in unison and resulted in a non-starting engine regardless of temperature. Come to think of it, I can't remember any car in my lifetime that has not started in the cold weather, because having been born in 1995 all the vehicles I've known have been fuel injected. Our 1997 Ford Fiesta did put up a bit of a fight in 2010, but I think that was probably more of an electrical issue than anything else.
Great presentation, and I like your philosophy about one brand vs another. Electronic FI is the way to go, but--like a carbureted car with points and condenser for ignition--it won't go if the battery is clapped out. When I had somewhere I had to be at o-dark-thirty one cold morning, I tried my daily-driver '00 Honda CR-V, and it wasn't having any of it, because the battery was long overdue for replacement. I got out of that car and thought "Oh what the hell!" and stepped over to my 1968 Kaiser Wagoneer with original everything in it, including the Holley 2209 carb and lousy Prestolite starter. I had kept the heap pretty well maintained, so there was a chance it would go. Against it was the temperature, and that the car hadn't been touched in 3 months. It took both my thumbs together to push the latch button on the door, and it sounded like pulling nails in demolition when I opened it. I slid in on a rock-hard naugahide seat, stuck the key in the slot, gave the gas pedal two or three taps to set the automatic choke and give it a squirt or two. I twisted that key, and it went through 3 rather slow compression strokes, and then scared the hell out of me by roaring to life and running at a fast idle without a misfire. I drove off on my errand, and was right on time. I wish I'd had my camcorder with me at the time. BTW, the temp was -25°F. Where I live 3°F is a heat wave.
This winter has been brutal on my '97 Ranger. First thing to go was the leaf spring shackle, shortly after the u-joint, and then an axle seal, starter motor, battery and now the throw-out bearing is slowly destroying itself. I miss my Acura.
I have used AutoCraft batteries from Advance Auto Parts for years and swear by them. They are a great product. Great video as always, keep up the good work.
I love seeing a 93 Caprice. I drive a 94 Caprice with a 383 stroker (LT1). That car has been very very reliable. Sadly mine chews through Autocraft batteries, the only battery that has lasted the test of time was a Optima battery. Then again the LT1 does require more strength to start than the TBI's (higher compression ratio due to reverse cooling), so who knows why mine is so picky with them.
Posted on Jan 8, huh? That very day my PC flat out refused to cold start where it had always worked fine before. Admit it - you jinxed it :p Understandably puzzled, I opened it up, and guess what I found? A bulging cap on the board. ;-/ I then proceeded to let the hairdryer do some persuasion, and lo and behold, she lives again. So suspend to RAM it is for now, until I get a replacement part in. There's only a single cap like that, and it's a bit larger, so I strongly suspect a case of penny-pinching. It's basically an office machine and close to 9 years old now, so well past the usual 3-5 years at this point.
I'm gonna have fun around 3PM today, it's going up to 24F from 10F right now at 8AM, and I'll have to start the van up for the first time in 3 days. I've found that the power steering whining is usually one of three problems: clogged filter, pump going dead, or the fluid just being old. in the cases of both my Corollas and the 96 Grand Caravan back over the years, a change of fluid was all that was needed. just siphon until empty, fill, run a bit, siphon again and then fill and leave it for another x amount of miles or until the pump finally croaks. Haven't had a pump go on me yet, thankfully, fingers crossed. I ran my Shuttle SG33G5 in the garage back in early 2014 when the weather was this cold last time. overclocked the HD5670 512MB and was mining DOGEcoins with it when scrypt algorithm mining was still viable on GPUs. made enough in the first few weeks to get my T500. I can't find the screenshot, but I believe the coldest the GPU got to was about 5C/41F and the CPUs somewhere around 8C/46F. and that was under full tilt load with both the CPU (an old Pentium E2180) and the GPU mining DOGEcoins. Would I ever do it again? Probably not. going out to replace the E8200 with the E2180 to bring down internal thermals, the compound coming out of the tube was solid enough to touch without getting it all over your fingers. was it a good experiment? You bet, that was a lot of money made that winter. I'm going to go out on a whim and assume the 360 in your garage there is probably somewhere along the same lines of temperature, and to be honest, for those machines at the very end of the Core 2 lines Dell had at the time, they're still probably some of the most reliable machines they've put out since the late 90s/early 2000s before cap plague gave them a bad rep. I'm more than certain that Dell will only die in the immense heat we'll be having this summer, what with the frigid temperatures this winter being any sort of indication. this weather is like a vacation for it.
Really Nasty here in N.E. Pa this morning also. The 2001 honda parked outside started ok, The 2002 Buick century in the garage started also but the drivers side window motor bit the dust yesterday. Stay Warm
You can always depend on your Caprice. I have a 92 sedan. Been through hell and back, over 300,000 miles on the original engine and she still runs great. Keep that wagon as long as you can. Having the 350 V8 is rare on these cars.
Very nice 1993 chevy station wagon I have a 82 Oldsmobile custom cruiser 85 chevy celebrity an a 85 Plymouth reliant all station wagons I really wish they still made them all, I also don't drive mine any in the winter either they really salt the roads over here in Missouri as well.
uxwbill yes absolutely vehicles today just don't have the same appeal as they did back then, I'd love to buy a new car that still had a cassette deck installed!!
In reference to that battery that's in your wagon. I also found its the best I ever had. It can be purchased at Advance Auto Parts. I use to buy Walmart Battery's but found price was good but would not last more then two years. My mechanic stated to me he has many people come in with Walmart battery failure. He directed me to Advance Auto for the Battery's and one lasted 7 years for me.
Good video....I enjoyed the cold starts.... sometimes vehicles with a weak battery can surprise us and start up in very cold weather..but that seldom happens. Thanks!
I specialize in American Motors Corporation vehicles. Owned Jeeps all my life. I have a 300,000 mile Jeep Cherokee that never broke down once, unfortunately due to the fact that I live in Connecticut it got a little rusty. I built another AMC Jeep Xj over the summer. Over the winter I ran my 300k Xj occasionally as well as took it out when the roads have been salt free and dry. You should do the same for that chevy. It will run much better
It's been getting extremely cold where I am also. A few days have dropped below 0°F, with the coldest being about -7°F for me, when I went to St. Johnsbury, VT. I keep meaning to migrate south with the birds some fall, but never move and then regret it as the cold and snow comes.
A low nearly dead battery in the 06 Monte Carlo will cause the key to get locked into the ignition. Won't come out until the car get's jumped and starts, Cold starts in California, sometimes gets below 40, is that enough for a cold start?
My moms car had some weird quirks when starting up cold. It was a Peugeot 3008 from 2010 (purchased new). It didn't even have to be extremely cold for things to go wrong with it. -5 C (23F) was already cold enough to cause issues. It would start, but you can't get out of the driveway, as the engine didn't have any power at all. It could take up to 15 minutes or so of driving before it started to behave predictable, as the computer was trying to get the engine to heat up fast. The car overall wasn't very well designed to begin with. The onboard computer was horrible and unreliable. The air conditioning was also heavily underpowered, not being able to prevent the windshield from fogging up, even after running for quite some time.
Don't worry about the whiny power steering pump...as long as it's quiet when warmed up completely it's OK. This is just the nature of hydraulic pumps when cold. Even brand new ones make that noise cold. Not all of them, mind you, but enough where it's VERY common. Don't want to see you waste money if you don't have to...
This car has a small leak in the steering rack, something that will be repaired when the weather is more suitable. Or at least that is the plan. For now it's got some rather-heavier-than-usual magical elixir that should hold until things can be fixed. And yes, the noise does largely go away when it has warmed up and the thicker-than-usual fluid has thinned out.
interestingly enough, out of the four vehicles in our household (Dad's 2012 Hyundai Genesis, Mom's 2010 Honda Odyssey, sister's 2007 Chevy Cobalt and my 2005 Toyota Prius) only the Prius would start without a jump on a -1° F morning. And man that power steering pump sounds cranky.
lol Bill,for a minute there,I thought you were gonna do a cold start on the Dell Optiflex,too :P and nice to know you can depend on the big blue whale :)
more than likely, one of the parameters the Impala's PCM monitors is battery voltage so its locking out the Remote Start because the battery is below a pre prorgrammed threshold to where if it tried to initiate a remote start event, the effort would pull the voltage down to a point where the PCM would likely lose power during cranking.
I was of the same impression, but the battery was able to run all of the headlights, blower fan and other accessories without any sign of an issue. If they're monitoring voltage to determine whether or not a remote start attempt is allowed, they must have managed a truly impressive level of precision in the metering.
uxwbill you also have to remember; the starter pulls a LOT of amperage during cranking; to where if the battery has a bad cell, even though it can run the accessories just fine, it will do the thing I mentioned in my original post, and draw so much power that it pulls the power the PCM needs to function at the same time.
It certainly does. However, based on the other accessories appearing to work normally, I have to wonder upon what criteria the computer refused to attempt a remote start. It didn't try and fail -- it didn't try at all.
damn!! -15C!? today was the hottest day in summer here, only 27C but very humid. i love fuel injection too because you don't need to pump anymore, i do it sometimes with my carburated 1981 mitsubishi if i don't turn it on for some days, same goes with my 61 german ford. it sucks!
For now, the awful software that Lorex provided along with the capture card. While terrible, it's also the "devil I know" and I've figured out where it falls down and worked around it.
I believe the first videos I saw of yours were you trying to get the old GMC grain truck out at the farm started. Did that one ever run? What happened to it?
well i feel your pain... Illinois has some of the weirdest weather doesn't it. Its nice in the summer and butter cold in the winter. also that optiplex could be classified as a sub zero computer now :D
Hey Bill! How is the supercharger on the Buick? My brother just recently had to change the bearing in his supercarger at 83,xxx miles... He's got a 2001 Buick Park Ave Ultra in Titanium Blue... His back level suspension is out, too. Happy New Year
-15.5° Celsius, nippy, haven't seen anything lower than about -3°c here so far, but apparently by the end of the week you guys'll have blown some cold weather over the pond... :P
uxwbill I have a 99 s10 blazer that had a check engine light come on recently for the secondary air injection pump thats going to cost me $200 to repair, i got the code reset for the time being but it will come back on eventually. Unfortunatly for me, I have to get it fixed or else it won't pass the NYS inspection. Kinda stupid because it's a reliable little truck. it has 130k miles on it.
Hey uxwbill where are you located? LOL you Americans, -15 degrees Celsius is T-Shirt and shorts weather. I live in Alberta Canada, all my GM vehicles have no problems starting in weather twice as cold as that. It was -32 degrees Celsius last night. GM products have always been the best and still are.
Illinois USA. At risk of sounding like that guy who goes around taking all the fun out of things, I talked about how it can always be colder elsewhere. It's still dangerously cold weather and things have gotten close to -20°F (-32°C) a time or two.
Anyways, just found one of your videos today looking at some old PC stuff on youtube, ended up watching several of them and subscribing. Great channel and content. Thanks for all your work, it is much appreciated.
Nice vid, Buick engines usually are reliable, funny as soon as the one of the old Buick designs was sold to Rover it magically became unreliable, and then when it was fitted into the TVR sports cars it became even more unreliable! Us Brits really can’t do engines.
Furhead drives the Heep all the time. The Naughtiac is in storage awaiting repair (stuck in second gear) and the Keykeeper's Green Lemon garage art needs time and a few parts.
even though toy videos have been a bit scarce in the recent years if there is a uxwbill video in my subscriptions i am always interested because there is always a valiant attempt to make a decent video.
Fallout 3 should run fine. I ran that on a E8400 and a GT 730 and it ran nicely (worse specs than yours). Not sure for GTA 4 but it should run fine as well given it was only released around a year after Fallout 3.
I couldn't count on my 2013 Chevy Sonic today. Took me 5ish mins to start it today and it was about 25 degrees or below. Check engine light came on. Began running rough and cruise control failed to work. Remote start also was disabled due to fault codes. Took it into the dealer to get it serviced as my livelihood depends upon 2+ hours a day in my Chevy.
***** So that's why a lot of the parts are Korean... Makes sense. And, Chevy must have lied because they claimed it to be the only "Assembled in America" compact car.
That is precisely why. When Daewoo failed in the early 2000s, GM bought up their automotive manufacturing operations and renamed them to "GM Korea". Daewoo entered the US automotive market with cars like the Nubira, but they were gone almost as quickly as they had arrived. Although the Sonic is assembled in the US, other compact cars from other makers (Ford, Honda, Chrysler, Toyota, Subaru and likely others) are most certainly assembled at plants in the United States as well. (And just like the Sonic, most of these cars are also made in plants outside of the US. Some of them even come to the US market from these foreign assembly plants, something that's true of the Sonic as well.)
Friend of mine just bought a Spark for $12,500. I worry about the quality of the Korean manufactured stuff but, the car has a lifetime power train warranty from the dealer and 4 free oil changes a year for as long as they live here so hopefully that will keep anything horrible at bay
Bill, You must love pain, its cccold outside, get back in doors you mad man :-D. The cold weather is a great test for battery capacity, ive seen no end of people get the slow "Turnover of death" car engine, they allways say the same thing "Its allways started fine, i dont know why its doing this". Yep there car did start while the weather was warmer, the battery just barely had enough capacity to work. Time to say bye bye to the old battery.:-(
What's with American cars making that bong-bong-bong-bong-bong noise when you put the key in? Do they all do it? Do non-American cars need that noise added in when they are sold over there?
The chime (or sometimes a buzzer) is a reminder not to leave your keys in the car. In order for it to sound, the key has to be in the switch and the driver's side door has to be open. The slower paced chime that sounds after the key is turned on is reminder to put your seat belt on. It only sounds if the seat belt isn't already latched. I'd be greatly surprised to find that either of these features is specific to US-based auto makers, or a car intended for the North American market...but I'm kind of starting to wonder!
Well this is weird. I just realised our Corolla beeps when you put the key in, but no beeping when turned to the "ON" position. LOL we've had this car for years and I never payed attention to that sound! The MX5 (miata) and my last two cars definitely didn't make any beeping or bonging noise.
It's one of our many nanny laws in the US, all cars sold here have to have that chime. I don't know when it started, but I know from the emotional scars that my parents old 1977 Mercury had a loud buzzer in it that would startle children from their slumber. Pretty sure my dad's 1969 did not buzz, so I guess the starting date is in between there somewhere. My 86 GM doesn't do it as I ripped the offensive part out of the car. There used to be some weirdo on youtube who would post questions on every car video asking if each car had a buzzer or a beeper. I don't know if he was building a database or what.
The internal combustion ever!
My power steering pump in my 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue does the same thing, and it got replaced 2 years ago when the old system blew up and had a big puddle of sadness on my driveway.
Is the AC compressor on the Caprice original? That's quite impressive that it's still hanging on.
Yes it is.
The handiest handycam, eh?
The rarity of content from you (under my opinion) makes just the smallest video more valuable to me I take in every second I can get
Ah, but the numbers tell a different story. Let's do a little ciphering.
I have uploaded 973 videos, most of which are public. (Those that aren't have some special purpose.) I've been on RUclips for right around nine years as of this writing (wow). That's a new video uploaded approximately every three days, were the distribution to be equal. (Of course it isn't, since I have a life and obligations outside of RUclips. And sometimes I take a break.)
Of course, videos just fly by if you are binge watching, which is something people have actually _done_ with my videos, though I will never really understand why. (Then again, I get tired of the same thing over and over again in the long term. I like to keep things varied.)
R.I.P Old Cold Forgotten Buick.
instaBlaster
i miss the old forgotten buick
Found the issue with the steering on my Intrigue: the reservoir was leaking. Ended up replacing it a couple of months ago (pump/reservoir combo) and no issues any longer.
great collection of cars and always enjoy your videos, keep up the great work and look forward for your future uploads
Good to see another cold start video! We haven't had any problems this year (probably due to the fact the temperatures have never dropped below -5*C here in Scotland!) with either the 2000 Ford Focus 1.8 or my 1996 Peugeot 405 1.9 turbo diesel. That said, the latter did require new glow plugs in November when they all quit in unison and resulted in a non-starting engine regardless of temperature. Come to think of it, I can't remember any car in my lifetime that has not started in the cold weather, because having been born in 1995 all the vehicles I've known have been fuel injected. Our 1997 Ford Fiesta did put up a bit of a fight in 2010, but I think that was probably more of an electrical issue than anything else.
Thank you for the car video, Bill. Enjoyed it.
yay 2 videos and its only the second week of 2017, I'm feeling hopeful this will be a great year
Great presentation, and I like your philosophy about one brand vs another. Electronic FI is the way to go, but--like a carbureted car with points and condenser for ignition--it won't go if the battery is clapped out. When I had somewhere I had to be at o-dark-thirty one cold morning, I tried my daily-driver '00 Honda CR-V, and it wasn't having any of it, because the battery was long overdue for replacement. I got out of that car and thought "Oh what the hell!" and stepped over to my 1968 Kaiser Wagoneer with original everything in it, including the Holley 2209 carb and lousy Prestolite starter. I had kept the heap pretty well maintained, so there was a chance it would go. Against it was the temperature, and that the car hadn't been touched in 3 months. It took both my thumbs together to push the latch button on the door, and it sounded like pulling nails in demolition when I opened it. I slid in on a rock-hard naugahide seat, stuck the key in the slot, gave the gas pedal two or three taps to set the automatic choke and give it a squirt or two. I twisted that key, and it went through 3 rather slow compression strokes, and then scared the hell out of me by roaring to life and running at a fast idle without a misfire. I drove off on my errand, and was right on time. I wish I'd had my camcorder with me at the time. BTW, the temp was -25°F. Where I live 3°F is a heat wave.
This winter has been brutal on my '97 Ranger. First thing to go was the leaf spring shackle, shortly after the u-joint, and then an axle seal, starter motor, battery and now the throw-out bearing is slowly destroying itself.
I miss my Acura.
I have used AutoCraft batteries from Advance Auto Parts for years and swear by them. They are a great product. Great video as always, keep up the good work.
Love that caprice wagon i let my 95 Z28 sit for about 3 weeks in the freezing cold started right up ran a little rough though.
Your awesome Bill. Been watching for 2 years. Awesome vids. That and you brought me to love vwestlife as well!
like a champ you can always depend on GM Car to seat on a cold day
3:28 as weird as it sounds, I love those general motors "F note" door chimes.
Cool :) I like cold starts, the Blue Chevy Wagon is cool :)
I love seeing a 93 Caprice. I drive a 94 Caprice with a 383 stroker (LT1). That car has been very very reliable. Sadly mine chews through Autocraft batteries, the only battery that has lasted the test of time was a Optima battery. Then again the LT1 does require more strength to start than the TBI's (higher compression ratio due to reverse cooling), so who knows why mine is so picky with them.
Posted on Jan 8, huh? That very day my PC flat out refused to cold start where it had always worked fine before. Admit it - you jinxed it :p
Understandably puzzled, I opened it up, and guess what I found? A bulging cap on the board. ;-/ I then proceeded to let the hairdryer do some persuasion, and lo and behold, she lives again. So suspend to RAM it is for now, until I get a replacement part in. There's only a single cap like that, and it's a bit larger, so I strongly suspect a case of penny-pinching. It's basically an office machine and close to 9 years old now, so well past the usual 3-5 years at this point.
I'm gonna have fun around 3PM today, it's going up to 24F from 10F right now at 8AM, and I'll have to start the van up for the first time in 3 days. I've found that the power steering whining is usually one of three problems: clogged filter, pump going dead, or the fluid just being old. in the cases of both my Corollas and the 96 Grand Caravan back over the years, a change of fluid was all that was needed. just siphon until empty, fill, run a bit, siphon again and then fill and leave it for another x amount of miles or until the pump finally croaks. Haven't had a pump go on me yet, thankfully, fingers crossed.
I ran my Shuttle SG33G5 in the garage back in early 2014 when the weather was this cold last time. overclocked the HD5670 512MB and was mining DOGEcoins with it when scrypt algorithm mining was still viable on GPUs. made enough in the first few weeks to get my T500. I can't find the screenshot, but I believe the coldest the GPU got to was about 5C/41F and the CPUs somewhere around 8C/46F. and that was under full tilt load with both the CPU (an old Pentium E2180) and the GPU mining DOGEcoins. Would I ever do it again? Probably not. going out to replace the E8200 with the E2180 to bring down internal thermals, the compound coming out of the tube was solid enough to touch without getting it all over your fingers. was it a good experiment? You bet, that was a lot of money made that winter. I'm going to go out on a whim and assume the 360 in your garage there is probably somewhere along the same lines of temperature, and to be honest, for those machines at the very end of the Core 2 lines Dell had at the time, they're still probably some of the most reliable machines they've put out since the late 90s/early 2000s before cap plague gave them a bad rep. I'm more than certain that Dell will only die in the immense heat we'll be having this summer, what with the frigid temperatures this winter being any sort of indication. this weather is like a vacation for it.
Really Nasty here in N.E. Pa this morning also. The 2001 honda parked outside started ok, The 2002 Buick century in the garage started also but the drivers side window motor bit the dust yesterday. Stay Warm
You can always depend on your Caprice. I have a 92 sedan. Been through hell and back, over 300,000 miles on the original engine and she still runs great. Keep that wagon as long as you can. Having the 350 V8 is rare on these cars.
Very nice 1993 chevy station wagon I have a 82 Oldsmobile custom cruiser 85 chevy celebrity an a 85 Plymouth reliant all station wagons I really wish they still made them all, I also don't drive mine any in the winter either they really salt the roads over here in Missouri as well.
Same here. I'd love to be able to buy any of those cars brand new today.
uxwbill yes absolutely vehicles today just don't have the same appeal as they did back then, I'd love to buy a new car that still had a cassette deck installed!!
Love seeing that Caprice wagon start right up without any issues.
winter sucks. I always had battery issues with my old 92 lesabre but my 2002 dodge intrepid always starts in the winter.
In reference to that battery that's in your wagon. I also found its the best I ever had. It can be purchased at Advance Auto Parts. I use to buy Walmart Battery's but found price was good but would not last more then two years. My mechanic stated to me he has many people come in with Walmart battery failure. He directed me to Advance Auto for the Battery's and one lasted 7 years for me.
God I love that big old Caprice of yours
Good video....I enjoyed the cold starts.... sometimes vehicles with a weak battery can surprise us and start up in very cold weather..but that seldom happens. Thanks!
2002 dodge ram 3500 diesel (long bed with old style) starts great in -24F weather
"I'm sure the neighbors are loving this" lol :D
Ayyy he's back!
I specialize in American Motors Corporation vehicles. Owned Jeeps all my life. I have a 300,000 mile Jeep Cherokee that never broke down once, unfortunately due to the fact that I live in Connecticut it got a little rusty. I built another AMC Jeep Xj over the summer. Over the winter I ran my 300k Xj occasionally as well as took it out when the roads have been salt free and dry. You should do the same for that chevy. It will run much better
Perfect morning for a good cold start. Stay Frosty!
It's been getting extremely cold where I am also. A few days have dropped below 0°F, with the coldest being about -7°F for me, when I went to St. Johnsbury, VT. I keep meaning to migrate south with the birds some fall, but never move and then regret it as the cold and snow comes.
A low nearly dead battery in the 06 Monte Carlo will cause the key to get locked into the ignition. Won't come out until the car get's jumped and starts,
Cold starts in California, sometimes gets below 40, is that enough for a cold start?
just curious what's up with the check engine light on your silverado?
My moms car had some weird quirks when starting up cold.
It was a Peugeot 3008 from 2010 (purchased new). It didn't even have to be extremely cold for things to go wrong with it. -5 C (23F) was already cold enough to cause issues. It would start, but you can't get out of the driveway, as the engine didn't have any power at all. It could take up to 15 minutes or so of driving before it started to behave predictable, as the computer was trying to get the engine to heat up fast.
The car overall wasn't very well designed to begin with. The onboard computer was horrible and unreliable.
The air conditioning was also heavily underpowered, not being able to prevent the windshield from fogging up, even after running for quite some time.
I know cars don't operate well in cold conditions, but come on, -5C!
Power steering howls like a wookie
glad to finally see more car videos!
Bill AutoCraft battery I left mine in my tractor sense last summer October 12 2017 Went to start my tractor June 18th 2018 could not believe it
Don't worry about the whiny power steering pump...as long as it's quiet when warmed up completely it's OK. This is just the nature of hydraulic pumps when cold. Even brand new ones make that noise cold. Not all of them, mind you, but enough where it's VERY common. Don't want to see you waste money if you don't have to...
This car has a small leak in the steering rack, something that will be repaired when the weather is more suitable. Or at least that is the plan. For now it's got some rather-heavier-than-usual magical elixir that should hold until things can be fixed. And yes, the noise does largely go away when it has warmed up and the thicker-than-usual fluid has thinned out.
It seems you're completely on top of things. Well done! Carry on.
i get to go out to -20 F here later this week to start my old 1993 Ford Explorer
interestingly enough, out of the four vehicles in our household (Dad's 2012 Hyundai Genesis, Mom's 2010 Honda Odyssey, sister's 2007 Chevy Cobalt and my 2005 Toyota Prius) only the Prius would start without a jump on a -1° F morning. And man that power steering pump sounds cranky.
It's currently 37c (98f) in my part of Australia.. not sure if I envy it being *that* cold, but maybe a nice mix of the two would be awesome.
I love your yearly cold starts
My car has the autocraft gold battery to. It died once when the alternator went out but its been good otherwise.
I always liked the old Caprice wagons.
lol Bill,for a minute there,I thought you were gonna do a cold start on the Dell Optiflex,too :P and nice to know you can depend on the big blue whale :)
more than likely, one of the parameters the Impala's PCM monitors is battery voltage so its locking out the Remote Start because the battery is below a pre prorgrammed threshold to where if it tried to initiate a remote start event, the effort would pull the voltage down to a point where the PCM would likely lose power during cranking.
I was of the same impression, but the battery was able to run all of the headlights, blower fan and other accessories without any sign of an issue. If they're monitoring voltage to determine whether or not a remote start attempt is allowed, they must have managed a truly impressive level of precision in the metering.
uxwbill you also have to remember; the starter pulls a LOT of amperage during cranking; to where if the battery has a bad cell, even though it can run the accessories just fine, it will do the thing I mentioned in my original post, and draw so much power that it pulls the power the PCM needs to function at the same time.
It certainly does. However, based on the other accessories appearing to work normally, I have to wonder upon what criteria the computer refused to attempt a remote start. It didn't try and fail -- it didn't try at all.
damn!! -15C!? today was the hottest day in summer here, only 27C but very humid. i love fuel injection too because you don't need to pump anymore, i do it sometimes with my carburated 1981 mitsubishi if i don't turn it on for some days, same goes with my 61 german ford. it sucks!
I might be going out on a limb here but this was literally a cool video!
Love the cold starts and you saved the best for last, I love the station wagon. Am I missing something though...who's Ford truck is that.
I should get around to cold starting the Lebaron and town car when it's down in the negatives.. that would be a fun video lol
EFI is good until it goes wrong!
What did you do about the Caprice's door locks then, if you could only get a replacement ignition key cut?
I haven't done anything yet.
What software were you running for your the Dell OptiPlex 360 DVR?
For now, the awful software that Lorex provided along with the capture card. While terrible, it's also the "devil I know" and I've figured out where it falls down and worked around it.
its summer in my part of the world. please try to upload more videos on a regular basis like once a week
I believe the first videos I saw of yours were you trying to get the old GMC grain truck out at the farm started. Did that one ever run? What happened to it?
those were awesome cold starts loved it :)
Iike cold starts
I really like the chevy caprice is the commercial for the like a rock just for the chevy trucks or for all chevys
Your garage door starts pretty well in the cold
Damn an 1080p video
well i feel your pain... Illinois has some of the weirdest weather doesn't it. Its nice in the summer and butter cold in the winter. also that optiplex could be classified as a sub zero computer now :D
if the 93 chevrolet isn't usually that loud the fan clutch is probably worn out
on the first car your windshield wipers were on the second rain sensing setting
Hey Bill!
How is the supercharger on the Buick? My brother just recently had to change the bearing in his supercarger at 83,xxx miles... He's got a 2001 Buick Park Ave Ultra in Titanium Blue... His back level suspension is out, too. Happy New Year
The Buick is naturally aspirated, not supercharged.
Bill I hate seeing you this way about your fleet! Would love to lend you a hand fixing them up to get em at their peak!
All I'm waiting for is better weather.
Come down to Florida
You couldn't pay me anything like enough to do that. :-P
(Well, maybe you could. It's said that every man has his price. But it would be a lot.)
You should let them run for at least 20 minutes or so before shutting them down. Nice B-Body BTW.. Have a '91 Caprice LTZ.
-15.5° Celsius, nippy, haven't seen anything lower than about -3°c here so far, but apparently by the end of the week you guys'll have blown some cold weather over the pond... :P
the ford would've fired right up with a new battery
There can be no doubt. In fact, it's already running again. The existing battery took a decent charge!
Oh man. i find anything under 10 degrees C really cold.
Living in NL is really bad because its always cold here!
well summer might be moderate but its still not warm enough for me.
That poor computer even for a pentium thats a bit chilly
Core 2 Duo
those things were moderately roomheating too
indeed ive got a core 2 duo laptop and that gets lap hurtingly warm quite often so
lol i had a pentium M and in a compact laptop those things are toasty
ive got a pentium 4 in the room with me that continualy runs lol
how come the silverado's check engine is on? Is something wrong with it or is it just some trivial emissions code? just curious.
It's some stupid evaporative emissions control thing. I'll fix it someday.
uxwbill I have a 99 s10 blazer that had a check engine light come on recently for the secondary air injection pump thats going to cost me $200 to repair, i got the code reset for the time being but it will come back on eventually. Unfortunatly for me, I have to get it fixed or else it won't pass the NYS inspection. Kinda stupid because it's a reliable little truck. it has 130k miles on it.
I'm wondering where this was done? I live in MT & this is a mid range AM winter temp here.
Illinois
Hey uxwbill where are you located? LOL you Americans, -15 degrees Celsius is T-Shirt and shorts weather. I live in Alberta Canada, all my GM vehicles have no problems starting in weather twice as cold as that. It was -32 degrees Celsius last night. GM products have always been the best and still are.
Illinois USA. At risk of sounding like that guy who goes around taking all the fun out of things, I talked about how it can always be colder elsewhere. It's still dangerously cold weather and things have gotten close to -20°F (-32°C) a time or two.
Anyways, just found one of your videos today looking at some old PC stuff on youtube, ended up watching several of them and subscribing. Great channel and content. Thanks for all your work, it is much appreciated.
uxwbill I'm in Chicago and yes it gets pretty damn cold here lol
Nice vid, Buick engines usually are reliable, funny as soon as the one of the old Buick designs was sold to Rover it magically became unreliable, and then when it was fitted into the TVR sports cars it became even more unreliable! Us Brits really can’t do engines.
u still got the old caddy? i think it was a deville ?
Yes, and it isn't going anywhere.
***** please make update vid on it uxwbill! lol
I have that exact battery charger!
3800s are good motors
Need updates on the Heep and the Naughtiac and the green diesel
Furhead drives the Heep all the time. The Naughtiac is in storage awaiting repair (stuck in second gear) and the Keykeeper's Green Lemon garage art needs time and a few parts.
even though toy videos have been a bit scarce in the recent years if there is a uxwbill video in my subscriptions i am always interested because there is always a valiant attempt to make a decent video.
OOOO cold start i like them cool/cold vid
it wood have ben funny to see if the old gmc diesel truck wood start (IT MIGHT)
It would start, but it would make you work for it!
lol yep
Speaking of the GMC diesel I thought it was going away? I hope im wrong and its staying
The handiest of handycams.
Send help.
my 30cc bicycle
Didnt want to cold start. Then the fuel hose fell off and i decided to just take the car
Hello, do you think a core 2 Quad is still ok for light gaming? And normal tasks?
What sort of games?
Ashton gta 4, fallout 3 and older
Ashton and it has a GTX 460 and 6 GB of ram
Fallout 3 should run fine. I ran that on a E8400 and a GT 730 and it ran nicely (worse specs than yours). Not sure for GTA 4 but it should run fine as well given it was only released around a year after Fallout 3.
a quad core would do a better job as it has hyper threading
Yay new vid finally!
What type of craftsmen tractor is it
Don't know, maybe an LT2000?
Ok thanks
you can always count on your chevy
I couldn't count on my 2013 Chevy Sonic today. Took me 5ish mins to start it today and it was about 25 degrees or below. Check engine light came on. Began running rough and cruise control failed to work. Remote start also was disabled due to fault codes. Took it into the dealer to get it serviced as my livelihood depends upon 2+ hours a day in my Chevy.
That's because it's actually a *Daewoo* in Chevrolet clothing!
***** So that's why a lot of the parts are Korean... Makes sense. And, Chevy must have lied because they claimed it to be the only "Assembled in America" compact car.
That is precisely why. When Daewoo failed in the early 2000s, GM bought up their automotive manufacturing operations and renamed them to "GM Korea". Daewoo entered the US automotive market with cars like the Nubira, but they were gone almost as quickly as they had arrived.
Although the Sonic is assembled in the US, other compact cars from other makers (Ford, Honda, Chrysler, Toyota, Subaru and likely others) are most certainly assembled at plants in the United States as well. (And just like the Sonic, most of these cars are also made in plants outside of the US. Some of them even come to the US market from these foreign assembly plants, something that's true of the Sonic as well.)
Friend of mine just bought a Spark for $12,500. I worry about the quality of the Korean manufactured stuff but, the car has a lifetime power train warranty from the dealer and 4 free oil changes a year for as long as they live here so hopefully that will keep anything horrible at bay
Bill, You must love pain, its cccold outside, get back in doors you mad man :-D.
The cold weather is a great test for battery capacity, ive seen no end of people get the slow "Turnover of death" car engine, they allways say the same thing "Its allways started fine, i dont know why its doing this".
Yep there car did start while the weather was warmer, the battery just barely had enough capacity to work.
Time to say bye bye to the old battery.:-(
You mentioned there was a price how bout a swim or a bike ride on christmas
How could I get a new key mad for my 1993 dodge Dakota
The answer depends upon whether or not you have any keys now.
Ye Olde Caprice still lives!
What's with American cars making that bong-bong-bong-bong-bong noise when you put the key in? Do they all do it? Do non-American cars need that noise added in when they are sold over there?
The chime (or sometimes a buzzer) is a reminder not to leave your keys in the car. In order for it to sound, the key has to be in the switch and the driver's side door has to be open.
The slower paced chime that sounds after the key is turned on is reminder to put your seat belt on. It only sounds if the seat belt isn't already latched.
I'd be greatly surprised to find that either of these features is specific to US-based auto makers, or a car intended for the North American market...but I'm kind of starting to wonder!
Well this is weird. I just realised our Corolla beeps when you put the key in, but no beeping when turned to the "ON" position. LOL we've had this car for years and I never payed attention to that sound! The MX5 (miata) and my last two cars definitely didn't make any beeping or bonging noise.
It's one of our many nanny laws in the US, all cars sold here have to have that chime. I don't know when it started, but I know from the emotional scars that my parents old 1977 Mercury had a loud buzzer in it that would startle children from their slumber. Pretty sure my dad's 1969 did not buzz, so I guess the starting date is in between there somewhere.
My 86 GM doesn't do it as I ripped the offensive part out of the car.
There used to be some weirdo on youtube who would post questions on every car video asking if each car had a buzzer or a beeper. I don't know if he was building a database or what.
At least you got snow in illinois :b
That was fun
My Opel Kadett E started on -20 celcius
Barely started