Most batterys that far north have trickle chargers to keep them alive and sometimes battery blankets to keep warm. A lot of people opt for AGM batteys too because they aren't affected by the cold.
Freezing cold weather kills car battery, it's also hard on the Alternator and starter. That's why when you start your car, you hear it taking a few seconds to start up after turning the key to the on position and waiting for the sound to go off before starting your ignition. I try not to use my heat in the Winter, because it draws a lot of power from the Alternator and shortens the lifespan causing premature wear. When my windows fog up I have no choice, I have to defrost the windows then turn it off afterwards. But it fogs up again due to the cold.
What kind of dumb logic is that not using the heat in winter cause of "premature wear".. If your alternator is going out with a load on, it's going out anyway. Alternators are meant to handle loads and still produce enough power to recharge the battery. Its a few extra amps to a blower circuit. Wherever the heat knob is is actually entirely redundant. The engine makes the heat. The alternator short of spinning has nothing to do with it. The blower would not even put a crazy load on the altnerator..Even with a crazy load Ive never heard that increased electrical output can cause damage. Maybe if it is getting hot or something but at that point it had an issue anyway. @@static_Tricolor_camry
@@burnthompson286 I just thought it fit because typically these memes start with "we makin it out the BLANK" I thought it was funny to compare the noise the car was making to like a song or beat or something with the ultimate goal being the car starting so you can "make it out the driveway!" Ya dig?
my guess was fuel or moisture was frozen in the injectors or line, when he reprimed the fuel pump it pushed the ice threw or repressure the injectors, on that model honda the fuel pump will shutdown untill the key is cycled again after cranking that long. thats extreme cold conditions should be using a dipstick or oil pan magnet heater, full synthetic 0w- 20 should be used also around -30 degrees and lower.
@@jongonegone1262usually cars in this kind of climate are weatherised and have heating elements on the oil pan but I’m not sure about the fuel tank. Don’t see it too often.
I mean I started up my 95 Buick with a 3800 like a week ago and it was negative 28 in Minnesota. Up here if your car doesn't start when it's cold like that you don't have reliable transportation. When I lived in Texas they shut the state down for like a half inch of snow I showed up for work in the whole city was shut down. Out here you get a foot of snow and it's negative 30 and it's just another day everybody's going about their business.
@@knucklestheechidna5718Well, that's largely because Texas infrastructure and road crews aren't properly equipped to handle snow. They lay sand instead of salt/chemicals, which won't chew your car up, but also does a piss-poor job of displacing snow and ice. The drivers out there lack the skill set to drive in slick conditions because they never drive in it. And half of everyone's tires are as bad as Joe Rogan.
@knucklestheechidna5718 Last week it was around that here in Des Moines, about -25. 2015 Civic started right up with about a 2 second long crank! Agree. If your car can't handle subzero all the time in the winter, don't live where it gets that cold. You'll be screwed.
@@knucklestheechidna5718I got an 05 Pontiac Grand Prix with 3800 series 3 and it never fails to start in -20 Michigan weather after a new battery couple years back
I have an 04 2.4L, and I highly recommend the V6 battery swap. Look it up on the forums, my car starts perfectly with it, granted the worst I got is -30C but still. Bigger battery with more CCA might help a bit
@@caseyhogan2142I can’t say I’ve experienced that bad, but I work in -20 and colder every day- I insulate houses for a living and it ain’t warm until I’m done my job 🙃
not at all. modrn synthetic oils are still somewhat thin at low tempatures and maintain their viscoscity well. this is one huge benefit of synth oils. but at this goddamn shitass temp it would prob be like some really really heavy gear oil
I had one as my first car (2003 4 cylinder) which was my aunt’s former car. Unfortunately it was an automatic, which made the car tremendously boring, with a severely rotted undercarriage, because apparently my aunt never discovered FluidFilm or WoolWax. The sad part is the engine only had around 60k miles. I would’ve definitely freed the engine’s captivity by manual swapping it, if she wasn’t a victim of the salt belt.
Not rare for the 5-speed 4 cylinders..... But for a v6-6speed sedan..... those were only made for 06-07 03-07 v6-6sp coupes 03-05 v6 sedan was only automatic
The same can be said about my 2017 Hyundai Elantra (yes I got the anti theft installed), but it is extremely reliable and even in the single digits, she still starts right up in 2 seconds without any issues. I love my Elantra!
It may start to crystallize or something but actually freezing, solid, no it does not. I live in Northwestern Ontario, it might freeze but it doesn't freeze enough to be unusable, in that case too, which I'm confused about, it's water that freezes and there is no water in fuel otherwise the engine would lock up aka hydro locking. I don't believe there's anywhere on earth that will actually freeze fuel.
Gasoline should freeze at around -45°C. Not to mention that even a 0Wxx oil would be at its absolute limits. I doubt it is really -57° (no matter if C or F), or they use adapted fuel and oil.
That’s very impressive! But if I was you, I would look for a good engine oil heater that you could use to heat the oil up a little. There’s lots of different types. And of course use a quality synthetic 0W20 motor oil, or even maybe a 0w16.
I calibrate diesel engines for cold start, and I salute the engineers who designed and calibrated this engine. I don't know if an external heater was being used to heat the incoming air or the engine coolant, but eitherway, it is an impressive achievement. Kudos to the team at Honda. Brilliant engineering as always.
In most cases battery would die from both cold and using it's capacity somewhere halfway through. Gotta love how you got "check engine" light immediately. I would do that if I were you 😂
I had the same gen 2.4. The inline-4’s battery had ridiculously low Cold cranking amps. The V6 had a bigger battery and there’s a mod people do to make it fit in the 2.4. Basically modding the battery tray if I recall correctly. Winter starts sucked.
Surprised the rpms stayed so low after starting. My 2011 accord has been shooting up to a 2k fast idle ever since the temperatures dipped below negatives here.
Hahaha I had a manual Tacoma and even at minus 15 Celsius the clutch pedal would be slow to come back up. Once you drive around and warm it up a bit the problem went away.
It would have been better if it was actually -57 when this video was made. No gloves and the door is open the entire time and this person just hanging out with no issues whatsoever. I call BS.
Oh dang watching you hit the clutch in that cold weather brought back an old old memory of me doing that same thing on a subzero winter morning in an 84 ford mustang and something in the clutch linkage broke. Booom! Right to the floor. Was a rough morning.
@@shiftfocus1lol that's my accord right now with the temperature in the negatives. The pedal will slowly traverse up half way then snap the rest of the way.
I used to have an 86 mustang. In the mornings that car was so cold. The seats were like concrete blocks, moving the stick was like trying to stir mud. And yeah the clutch pedal was very stiff. I eventually installed an in-cab heater
GM and Ford have “cold rooms” that they specifically use to cold start. Some of the engines they cold start and immediately rev the engine as high as it can go until it gives out so they can use the best scenario engine. I imagine Honda and Toyota do the same.
Was a block heater used in the hours before starting? My engine would always start well if the block heater was plugged in, but it would take a while for the heat to travel into the auto transmission before one could shift out of park.
@@GretaTurdeau OMG you made me laugh. Winter 1984 I had a job in Lake Louise Alberta and I owned a Plymouth Volare. The night before I was scheduled to get my block heater installed in Banff the cold hit, no way my Volare was starting. So I went to my work and got 3 chafing fuel cans and a waiters tray. I lit the fuel inside and took it out, crawled under my car and heated the oil pan with the small fire. And she started right up!! So there you go.
@@free2roam674Funny, my relatives did it to tractors mostly. I don't think modern cars would like it much. But hey, insurance might buy you a new one if the plastic lights up. Lol
Just imagine how thick that oil must have been. I'm surprised it could even start at all. props to that battery for still holding a charge in that cold.
Amazing! Quick question, after the car finally started, did you press the accelerator? Or it was at that high speed idle? I ask out of curiosity, because the colder it is, the higher the RPMs. I have never experienced that cold, the coldest I have ever started my car was like 5°F years ago, and after it started, it was idling fast. So am wondering if you hit the gas. If not, wow, that car was idling at a super high speed!!!
Even in just the lower 20s my car idles around 1k, albeit it’s only that high for a couple of minutes. Interestingly, it also has a ‘EPM’ system that’ll boost idle speed based on battery voltage and temperature.
Just for future reference, don't run the starter for any longer than 30sec at a time. You will also notice that just like in this video, it is much more likely to start quickly the second or third time you try to start it in conditions like that.
I’m curious to know what would happen if you quickly hooked up a battery that was kept inside the house versus a battery that has been outside in that sort of environment
It wouldn’t make much difference honestly. The hard start was more down to the engine and oil being so cold. The battery performed like it should. A warm battery would not have made the car start any faster.
Other guys dead wrong lol. The oil makes a difference, but not nearly as much as the battery. From someone who lives where it gets -50. Taking the battery inside would help it crank faster, it wouldnt fall off so hard on the compression strokes, and youd get a much more stable voltage. The difference temperature makes gets more noticeable as the battery ages. Not worth it unless you know you're gonna have a hard time starting in the morning though.
I like too do the good ole crank for 15 secs then stop for 30. Its firing when your starting it, and creating heat, Let the heat warm up what it can, and then try again. Kind of like a diesel without glow plugs. Once that intake gets just a littttllle heat It should start
Damn that's cold! 🥶 I don't think my 04' Yukon XL would be able to handle that temp. I've had to drive friends to school bc their cars won't start in the 12° weather where I live
I had an 01 Tahoe with the 5.3 with like 400,000km on it and the block heater fried the first winter I had it. It was a pain to change so I never did. That thing always started. Got down to -30°C and colder many times. I did run 0w30 in the winter so that might have helped a bit.
Hello there, could I use a fragment of your video for my coldstarting compilation? Of course I will put a link to your original video in the description, increasing the original’s popularity too. -57f no windchill I assume? That's crazy, what kind of oil do you use in it? What year and engine is the Accord? Great that it started bone cold, about the coldest I've seen! Thanks a lot for you answer in advance :)
I had a 95 jeep that started in negative 56. None of my newer cars would start tho. Only the older one. When we had a artic polor vortex and it was negative 50 for like 2 weeks straight bit was crazy.
You seem to be first time at frost like that. Normally for people who live in such temperatures the sequence is different. You turn the crank a couple of revs and wait half a minute. Then you turn the crank 3-4 turns and wait again. Then you spin it for like 10 seconds and wait again. Eventually after 5 to 10 tries you make your engine oil more flexible. You see, at temps like these-no matter F or C-engine oil flows like honey, if it’s a good oil. Some oils become stiff. In this vid we all can hear that pulsation sound when the engine just started-it’s when pistons travel in cylinders with no oil, plus pressure waves when oil pump struggles to push thru all that honey-like substance.
@@ethanpuffer951i love how when people are trying to be educational, idiots always follow with "no thanks im a professional ignorant of 20 years why change now 👍👍 💪💪."
those hydraulic lifters sounded like they had absolutely zero oil pressure for a good ten twenty seconds there. normally I'd say that took some life off the motor, but then again it's a honder so I'm sure she just chillin
thas wasn’t a cold start that was a revival from the dead☠️☠️
🤣 It just- kept going... i thought oh yeah this will be nice.. okay any second- Okay here we go- Oh no- Ye....
I’m surprised the battery didn’t die 😭
@@ultrainstinct9542 hope he drove it long enough before turning off again
Suprised the cable to that poor starter didn’t burn up😳
normal day
Who needs generators as back up for nuclear power plants when you got this dudes car battery
That's no battery, that's the Arc reactor he built in a cave with a box of scraps.
@@fullysemi-automaticmemes3888nice reference
@@fullysemi-automaticmemes3888good one!
Tony Stark built this thing in a cave with a box of scraps, and he fets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke!@@fullysemi-automaticmemes3888
Most batterys that far north have trickle chargers to keep them alive and sometimes battery blankets to keep warm. A lot of people opt for AGM batteys too because they aren't affected by the cold.
This is what Honda should use for an ad during the Superbowl.
It was not that great of a cold start, but was successful
Majority of people wouldn’t even understand what’s going on. Lets be real lol
@@thegreat9481 Exactly people would just assume its a POS honda
@@domini384 lmfao exactly
@tedpesyna8347 somehow tie it in to how the lions were 0 and 16 and now about to play in the super bowl
What a battery!
The starter motor too 😮
we're ignoring the real heroes here, the cables to the starter motor and/or the starter solenoid if new cars even have those.
Would be fun to hook up an Amp clamp too
Freezing cold weather kills car battery, it's also hard on the Alternator and starter. That's why when you start your car, you hear it taking a few seconds to start up after turning the key to the on position and waiting for the sound to go off before starting your ignition. I try not to use my heat in the Winter, because it draws a lot of power from the Alternator and shortens the lifespan causing premature wear. When my windows fog up I have no choice, I have to defrost the windows then turn it off afterwards. But it fogs up again due to the cold.
What kind of dumb logic is that not using the heat in winter cause of "premature wear"..
If your alternator is going out with a load on, it's going out anyway. Alternators are meant to handle loads and still produce enough power to recharge the battery.
Its a few extra amps to a blower circuit. Wherever the heat knob is is actually entirely redundant. The engine makes the heat. The alternator short of spinning has nothing to do with it.
The blower would not even put a crazy load on the altnerator..Even with a crazy load Ive never heard that increased electrical output can cause damage. Maybe if it is getting hot or something but at that point it had an issue anyway.
@@static_Tricolor_camry
The good thing about the long crank is that it gives it plenty of time to build oil pressure
not if your oil has the consistency of a jelly bear
Oil pressure and oil flow are different.
Not really. The oil pump doesn't do anything during crank.
most wear comes from start ups
@@WayToManyAssassins incorrect, spinning a motor over long enough will actually get a nice amount of oil to the top
I don’t think you have to worry about overheating the starter when it’s -57 outside lol
"Yooouuu don't need to worry a-boot burning wires and what-all they go to".....
-Zip Ties and Bias Plies
Yes you do
here comes the self proclaimed master tech to make themself feel smart @TaylorJump1
@@X3N1TH >says something blatantly false
>someone corrects you
>"WELL AREN'T YOU THE MASTER? I BET YOU FEEL SMART"
tf?
@@DrSloww I never said anything false 💀
If you crank it hard enough for long enough, you can pre-heat the engine with heat from the starter
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
-57 that starter is never getting warm no matter how much it’s cranked
@@AuroraTVUK oddly the engine temp showed fully warmed up.
@@irreverentgentleman3745no it didn’t
@@molassascookieman4596 on the right hand side, there’s the gas gauge and temp gauge. . Both at the mid range.
WE MAKIN IT OUT THE DRIVEWAY WITH THIS ONE 🚗💨💨🚗💨💨💥💥💯
😂😂😂😂😂
Overused joke
@@KTB2212the1stOfficialIts funny when its like a song remix shitpost or something but it doesnt even make sense here
@@burnthompson286 I just thought it fit because typically these memes start with "we makin it out the BLANK" I thought it was funny to compare the noise the car was making to like a song or beat or something with the ultimate goal being the car starting so you can "make it out the driveway!" Ya dig?
@@westonblanchard5404 Fuck those guys you don't need to explain shit. The joke was funny
You know you're screwed when your car starts sounding like a microwave
Yo what does it mean, my car does that when its really cold 😢
@@technoplusb just the oil is too cold and its metal on metal, depends on what engine oil you have and u should change it maybe
its an honda not a garbage hyundai my dude,it will live another 20 years just fine.
@@jonska56 Its a 2016 Scion iM it used 5w30 👀
@@alpe6228no such thing as quality if it's getting destroyed
i am impressed the fuel and injectors didnt stop flowing
I love my old diesel, but untreated fuel supposedly gels below 15°. Gasoline is fine in arctic temperatures, though! :)
@@jamesgizasson in my country they sell summer diesel (-10c), winter (-29) and arctic (-40c)
That's what I was wondering. Sounded like the gas may had been a little thick
my guess was fuel or moisture was frozen in the injectors or line, when he reprimed the fuel pump it pushed the ice threw or repressure the injectors, on that model honda the fuel pump will shutdown untill the key is cycled again after cranking that long. thats extreme cold conditions should be using a dipstick or oil pan magnet heater, full synthetic 0w- 20 should be used also around -30 degrees and lower.
@@jongonegone1262usually cars in this kind of climate are weatherised and have heating elements on the oil pan but I’m not sure about the fuel tank. Don’t see it too often.
This is impressive.. Nothing starts in that kind of temp. hell of a battery, hell of an engine!
Average car made by honda:
I mean I started up my 95 Buick with a 3800 like a week ago and it was negative 28 in Minnesota. Up here if your car doesn't start when it's cold like that you don't have reliable transportation. When I lived in Texas they shut the state down for like a half inch of snow I showed up for work in the whole city was shut down. Out here you get a foot of snow and it's negative 30 and it's just another day everybody's going about their business.
@@knucklestheechidna5718Well, that's largely because Texas infrastructure and road crews aren't properly equipped to handle snow. They lay sand instead of salt/chemicals, which won't chew your car up, but also does a piss-poor job of displacing snow and ice. The drivers out there lack the skill set to drive in slick conditions because they never drive in it. And half of everyone's tires are as bad as Joe Rogan.
@knucklestheechidna5718 Last week it was around that here in Des Moines, about -25. 2015 Civic started right up with about a 2 second long crank!
Agree. If your car can't handle subzero all the time in the winter, don't live where it gets that cold. You'll be screwed.
@@knucklestheechidna5718I got an 05 Pontiac Grand Prix with 3800 series 3 and it never fails to start in -20 Michigan weather after a new battery couple years back
I have an 04 2.4L, and I highly recommend the V6 battery swap. Look it up on the forums, my car starts perfectly with it, granted the worst I got is -30C but still. Bigger battery with more CCA might help a bit
But if it's so cold isn't it bad for the engine to cold start it? Shouldn't drivers get an engine block heater?
Bro its -57 degrees idk about you but my body cant even comprehend that kind of cold
@@caseyhogan2142I can’t say I’ve experienced that bad, but I work in -20 and colder every day- I insulate houses for a living and it ain’t warm until I’m done my job 🙃
@@thatclappedk24accord41 thats crazy man no way anything under 40 is too cold for working good on you
@@zzoinksabsolutely. Engine block heater is a necessity in below normal temperatures
I'm only imagining what the oil must be like. I was going say cold molasses, but likely thicker. That it started eventually, amazing.
Probably something like molasses at 33°F. Lol
You can hear what sounds like metal on metal when she starts up.
@@Derekjeterlover7 Hopefully Ethan using a 0w-_ _ oil.
not at all. modrn synthetic oils are still somewhat thin at low tempatures and maintain their viscoscity well. this is one huge benefit of synth oils. but at this goddamn shitass temp it would prob be like some really really heavy gear oil
@@Jvogel-cc2bp0/10 👍🏻
cold temperature of oil is always thinner. The first number of oil type is its freezing viscosity. 5w-20, 10w-30, etc… The W stands for Winter.
As an Alaskan, I love this, it is soooooo satisfying to get your car started when the high for the day is Hoth 😊
Hoth?
The ice planet in Star Wars
Your battery should get a medal of honor
This was an intense video
A 7th Gen Accord with a stick shift? Pretty damn rare
This is the I4 with the 5 speed, fantastic car
There's also some V6 6 speed cars, love mine to death
I have one with 240k miles on it.
@@Ranguvar13 I would honestly kill for one of those old v6 6 speeds
I had one as my first car (2003 4 cylinder) which was my aunt’s former car. Unfortunately it was an automatic, which made the car tremendously boring, with a severely rotted undercarriage, because apparently my aunt never discovered FluidFilm or WoolWax.
The sad part is the engine only had around 60k miles. I would’ve definitely freed the engine’s captivity by manual swapping it, if she wasn’t a victim of the salt belt.
Not rare for the 5-speed 4 cylinders.....
But for a v6-6speed sedan..... those were only made for 06-07
03-07 v6-6sp coupes
03-05 v6 sedan was only automatic
Now cold cranking amps finally makes sense
At that temp, I’m surprised the belts didn’t shatter on the first crank. 😂🥶
Who says they didn't 😂
-57!?! I would be soo layered up with clothing that fitting into a Civic would be out of the question. And no gloves, you're a mad man.
Or its bullshit. Notice how the window was already partly defrosted in the middle?
@@neilschroeder7854 most likely bullshit
Lol @ madman
“It’s a Honda so you know it’s going to start”- Scotty Kilmer 😎
"If you don't drive a '93 Corolla, your life's gonna be miserable so you might a well just get a '93 Corolla".......-Scotty.
Bro he’s actually very knowledgeable. Your better off listening to him than anyone else really about cars lol
@@Sonic-gy7kqtoo bad he makes the worst clickbait titles on earth
@@benson4820Not his fault you fall for them
Scotty#1
The red zone in the tachometer is the "warm-up zone", as soon as the engine starts you're supposed to hold the needle there so it warms up properly
@ace_crash seems more like a joke actually
Wow! Thanks!@@ace_crash
Aww man i tried it on my car and now it boken 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭🥺😭🥺😭🥺
(Im obviously being funny)
peg from northern Alberta would agree
I'll try this next time we reach -57C in my country
Loved the rythm of the sounds it was making. Sounds like a nice dubstep drop if remixed properly. Miss my accord! Love this!!
And I love you ❤
I love my little accord. Doesn't matter what temp it is outside. Never fails to start regardless of the conditions
The same can be said about my 2017 Hyundai Elantra (yes I got the anti theft installed), but it is extremely reliable and even in the single digits, she still starts right up in 2 seconds without any issues. I love my Elantra!
Wow. This is impressive especially considering gasoline starts freezing at -50f
-78
Probably 57 Celsius.
Why are there 3 different answers to the temperature? You guys have google lol
It may start to crystallize or something but actually freezing, solid, no it does not. I live in Northwestern Ontario, it might freeze but it doesn't freeze enough to be unusable, in that case too, which I'm confused about, it's water that freezes and there is no water in fuel otherwise the engine would lock up aka hydro locking. I don't believe there's anywhere on earth that will actually freeze fuel.
@@tejay9416 you my friend, correct. Ppl mixed up between solid frozen state and jelled up state of fuel.
Genuinely sounded like a pressure washer engine when it finally turned over
What a unit she is absolutely not happy with you 😂
“I was sleeping!”
@@W.Holden.6hibernation 😂
“ughhh stopstopstopstopstopstop ughhhhhh stopstopstop”
Are you sure you're commenting on the right video? ;)
My girl when I pull out and stick it in the other hole.
Once I read this, I could not unhear the car "saying" it.
Gasoline should freeze at around -45°C.
Not to mention that even a 0Wxx oil would be at its absolute limits.
I doubt it is really -57° (no matter if C or F), or they use adapted fuel and oil.
-57 F with windchill, titles not wrong but incredibly misleading
That’s very impressive! But if I was you, I would look for a good engine oil heater that you could use to heat the oil up a little. There’s lots of different types. And of course use a quality synthetic 0W20 motor oil, or even maybe a 0w16.
I calibrate diesel engines for cold start, and I salute the engineers who designed and calibrated this engine. I don't know if an external heater was being used to heat the incoming air or the engine coolant, but eitherway, it is an impressive achievement.
Kudos to the team at Honda. Brilliant engineering as always.
Legitimately the most suspenseful movie I’ve watched this year
better start than my lawn mower at 38F
bruh
That was painful but satisfying
-57 degrees of what?
Angle?
Kelvin?
Newton?
Rømer?
Réaumur?
Delisle?
Rankine?
Celcius?
Fahrenheit?
That stater motor was not happy but good ol Hondas keep on kickin!
This had me on the edge of my seat
In most cases battery would die from both cold and using it's capacity somewhere halfway through.
Gotta love how you got "check engine" light immediately. I would do that if I were you 😂
Lol, I saw that too! Classic Honda.
Well impressive that it started, but it audibly let you know it was pissed that it had to start in that 😂
Also seeing how coolant freezes at 37 F
@@jackso_28 theres -45c coolant in Southern Canada which is about -50f
In Saskatchewan we call this every other Tuesday in January to February
I had the same gen 2.4. The inline-4’s battery had ridiculously low Cold cranking amps. The V6 had a bigger battery and there’s a mod people do to make it fit in the 2.4. Basically modding the battery tray if I recall correctly. Winter starts sucked.
As if you would be sitting in a car that cold without more clothes on. I'm going to guess it was maybe -10° F outside, if it was even below 0° F.
Built different
yeah, it didn't look that cold. Couldn't even see his breath.
this is from north dakota during a cold freeze. i’m guessing it was around -20ish F with -57 F windchill. northerners are just built different lol
@@ethanberger8156 -20 seem more appropriate. Windchill is completely irrelevant when it comes to vehicles.
this is the only video that's ever given me asmr tingles
That battery is the real hero
How is this guy not wearing gloves in -57 degrees
Because there is no way it was -57. Probably the wind chill.
Yea not even remotely close to -57. Cap 😂
Damn that sounds cold and i live in Wisconsin. Where do you live that gets to -50 degrees?? 😱😱
Says he’s based in US, I’d guess north western alaska
@shammirza5203 Granted the title may be in Fahrenheit as well, my part of Alberta got down to -50c ( -58f, and wind chill included) recently.
@shammirza5203no it didn't. I live in Calgary as well.
@@HristovRumen yeah wind chill don't count lol
As a wisconsinite, even I questioned where this human live at 😮
Surprised the rpms stayed so low after starting. My 2011 accord has been shooting up to a 2k fast idle ever since the temperatures dipped below negatives here.
Consider that a good thing btw
Lol the Honda that whirred like a skid steer. Awesome!
How I wake up after a night out drinking when the alarm goes off 😃
Are you my neighbor
I heard it sayin "stop now now stop now now, stop stop stop now now stop stop stop stop now now"
The little engine that COULD 🫡
Nothing worse than the feeling of cold shifter cables and clutch pedals 😂
Hahaha I had a manual Tacoma and even at minus 15 Celsius the clutch pedal would be slow to come back up. Once you drive around and warm it up a bit the problem went away.
It would have been better if it was actually -57 when this video was made. No gloves and the door is open the entire time and this person just hanging out with no issues whatsoever. I call BS.
Oh dang watching you hit the clutch in that cold weather brought back an old old memory of me doing that same thing on a subzero winter morning in an 84 ford mustang and something in the clutch linkage broke. Booom! Right to the floor.
Was a rough morning.
Similar memories of my old Celica, except it was a hydraulic clutch. I’d take my foot off the pedal and watch it slooooowly come up from the floor.
@@shiftfocus1lol that's my accord right now with the temperature in the negatives. The pedal will slowly traverse up half way then snap the rest of the way.
I used to have an 86 mustang. In the mornings that car was so cold. The seats were like concrete blocks, moving the stick was like trying to stir mud. And yeah the clutch pedal was very stiff. I eventually installed an in-cab heater
What a starter! That starter was cranking so long he could of just drove it there on that!
absolute mad lad, he didnt even wait the few seconds for the airbag to finish to make more battery power available
I’d say that’s proper climate for a block heater
Man that shits the proper climate to start a bonfire under the pan.
I can't imagine any engine surviving very long in weather that cold. The wear on startup must be absolutely insane.
I’m assuming it’s a 4 cyl (K24A4) five speed. As a former owner of one, it’s basically bulletproof
GM and Ford have “cold rooms” that they specifically use to cold start. Some of the engines they cold start and immediately rev the engine as high as it can go until it gives out so they can use the best scenario engine. I imagine Honda and Toyota do the same.
Was a block heater used in the hours before starting? My engine would always start well if the block heater was plugged in, but it would take a while for the heat to travel into the auto transmission before one could shift out of park.
-57 is given here in Fahrenheit.
-49.44°C for the rest of the world
I was looking for this comment, thank you
This is the reason you should have a block heater.
Or at least start a small fire under the oil pan. 😂
@@GretaTurdeau OMG you made me laugh. Winter 1984 I had a job in Lake Louise Alberta and I owned a Plymouth Volare. The night before I was scheduled to get my block heater installed in Banff the cold hit, no way my Volare was starting. So I went to my work and got 3 chafing fuel cans and a waiters tray. I lit the fuel inside and took it out, crawled under my car and heated the oil pan with the small fire. And she started right up!! So there you go.
@@free2roam674Funny, my relatives did it to tractors mostly. I don't think modern cars would like it much. But hey, insurance might buy you a new one if the plastic lights up. Lol
@@GretaTurdeau some cars have plastic oil pans so please check before starting the fire!
@@smoguli Lol, exactly
There is no chance this was recorded at -57. Telling you as a person who actually experienced that temperature. You didn’t even close the door!
Exactly. Wind chill.
@@grbmajor6645 its bullshit
Just imagine how thick that oil must have been. I'm surprised it could even start at all. props to that battery for still holding a charge in that cold.
That's one hell of a battery!
proof that hondas are literally unstoppable
Idk mud stops the Honda ridgeline pretty well from what I've seen.
@@Mika-ph6ku Well, we don't talk about the Ridgeline 😂
Amazing! Quick question, after the car finally started, did you press the accelerator? Or it was at that high speed idle? I ask out of curiosity, because the colder it is, the higher the RPMs. I have never experienced that cold, the coldest I have ever started my car was like 5°F years ago, and after it started, it was idling fast. So am wondering if you hit the gas. If not, wow, that car was idling at a super high speed!!!
Even in just the lower 20s my car idles around 1k, albeit it’s only that high for a couple of minutes.
Interestingly, it also has a ‘EPM’ system that’ll boost idle speed based on battery voltage and temperature.
Like waking me up on Saturday.
Saw -10°F with my little Mitsubishi Mirage. It started up like "Wait, it's cold outside? Didn't notice."
That battery deserves a raise
Absolute fucking trooper, just like my 7th Gen 5 Speed
Just for future reference, don't run the starter for any longer than 30sec at a time. You will also notice that just like in this video, it is much more likely to start quickly the second or third time you try to start it in conditions like that.
At the beginning whenever he tries to start, it sounds like my microwave😂😂😂
I’m curious to know what would happen if you quickly hooked up a battery that was kept inside the house versus a battery that has been outside in that sort of environment
It wouldn’t make much difference honestly. The hard start was more down to the engine and oil being so cold. The battery performed like it should. A warm battery would not have made the car start any faster.
Other guys dead wrong lol. The oil makes a difference, but not nearly as much as the battery. From someone who lives where it gets -50. Taking the battery inside would help it crank faster, it wouldnt fall off so hard on the compression strokes, and youd get a much more stable voltage. The difference temperature makes gets more noticeable as the battery ages. Not worth it unless you know you're gonna have a hard time starting in the morning though.
@@wills.5762 Yep, that’s exactly what I thought. Thank you for your input.
It makes a lot more sense when you realise that this is not in °C.
This is still -49°C.
That’s a heck of a battery and good little Honda
Nothing likes to start when it's that cold! 🥶 I don't like Hondas, but I give this one props for starting in that cold temp.
I like too do the good ole crank for 15 secs then stop for 30. Its firing when your starting it, and creating heat, Let the heat warm up what it can, and then try again. Kind of like a diesel without glow plugs. Once that intake gets just a littttllle heat It should start
This!
This helps so much. You can literally hear when the cylinders are firing and when they aren't.
As a mechanic I can assure that the long crank time is due to another issue and not the cold
Where do you live? Florida?
@@juliogonzo2718 in reality
thats got to be the best batery ive ever seen
Brings back memories from Fairbanks thanks
Damn that's cold! 🥶 I don't think my 04' Yukon XL would be able to handle that temp. I've had to drive friends to school bc their cars won't start in the 12° weather where I live
I had an 01 Tahoe with the 5.3 with like 400,000km on it and the block heater fried the first winter I had it. It was a pain to change so I never did. That thing always started. Got down to -30°C and colder many times. I did run 0w30 in the winter so that might have helped a bit.
I have a 99 silverado that'll start in -40 not plugged in, even with a hog ass cam and a greasy tune. I got a video of it on my channel actually
Damn that's impressive. My '04 Corolla struggles to start when it's only 10°F outside.
Your battery is probably pooched. How old is the battery?
@@SimRacingVeteran
Maybe a year old. But it doesn't struggle this bad. Just takes a little longer to turn over. It's fine now.
Thank you for clarifying that -57 is subzero
That’s one bad ass battery 👍
Hello there, could I use a fragment of your video for my coldstarting compilation? Of course I will put a link to your original video in the description, increasing the original’s popularity too. -57f no windchill I assume? That's crazy, what kind of oil do you use in it? What year and engine is the Accord? Great that it started bone cold, about the coldest I've seen! Thanks a lot for you answer in advance :)
Yeah go ahead and use the video, thanks!
surprised it even goes into gear at that temp
You know it's bad when your clutch says "it's too damn early for this go back to bed"
Honda engines never let you down!
what brand is that battery holy sh8t
pretty easy to be honest, insane
That's modern cars for you
@@Tracert-mc1hu most modern cars could never, unless plugged in
@@Dallas867uhhhhh bruh most modern diesels start in cold temps just fine unplugged
@@nativeoutdoors1780 Not sure if you realize how cold -57 is lol
@@Dallas867 anything below negative 20 kinda just ends up being just cold cold hahah
Gotta love a cold sticky clutch
I had a 95 jeep that started in negative 56. None of my newer cars would start tho. Only the older one. When we had a artic polor vortex and it was negative 50 for like 2 weeks straight bit was crazy.
Holy shit. Don't you have a way to keep the engine warm to avoid this?
yeah they do have block heaters you can get, super common up north.
@@AlvoGTR yeah I know, I was trying to ask why OP isn't using one
@@TheChrisLeone probably either visiting or just wanted a cool video
No place to plug in😂
@@ethanpuffer951could always get eberspacher or webasto installed, although it prob costs from 1-3k depending on the car 🤔
the glacier honda
sounded exactly like a lawnmower when it finally started
I love how my civic sounds on a really cold start
You seem to be first time at frost like that.
Normally for people who live in such temperatures the sequence is different. You turn the crank a couple of revs and wait half a minute. Then you turn the crank 3-4 turns and wait again. Then you spin it for like 10 seconds and wait again.
Eventually after 5 to 10 tries you make your engine oil more flexible.
You see, at temps like these-no matter F or C-engine oil flows like honey, if it’s a good oil. Some oils become stiff.
In this vid we all can hear that pulsation sound when the engine just started-it’s when pistons travel in cylinders with no oil, plus pressure waves when oil pump struggles to push thru all that honey-like substance.
I’ve lived in North Dakota 20 years🤙 I’ll keep doing what I want🤘🤘
@@ethanpuffer951i love how when people are trying to be educational, idiots always follow with "no thanks im a professional ignorant of 20 years why change now 👍👍 💪💪."
@@ethanpuffer951
Sorry, mate! You’re right: not my business.
@@aleksandrnestrato I wasn’t trying to be rude! I totally understand what you were going after I was more just saying I don’t wanna listen lol
@@ethanpuffer951
No, no, I’m cool, you’re not rude at all! 😊
those hydraulic lifters sounded like they had absolutely zero oil pressure for a good ten twenty seconds there. normally I'd say that took some life off the motor, but then again it's a honder so I'm sure she just chillin
No hydraulic lifters here...
Early 2000s Hondas used buckets and shims I believe
No. Maybe way back when (pre 1989) but not this car
@@andrewsilvey698 oh dear, thats even worse. Its like there are half a dozen black smiths in there hammering the bottom end with anvils.
My Subaru sounded like that in +22F temps last week, I shudder to think how it would go in -57F.
I can feel the grin on this guy's face when it started