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Isn't weather strange?
 

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Yesterday was a relly cräppy day.
I had promised to take a good friend to her migraine doctor some 50 miles away for her quarterly shots, but my car just made a lame attempt to start and then died. So we rented a car and when coming back the insurance company sent a tow truck that easily started my car and I took it for a drive to charge the battery when the STOP-light came on (have I written this before??!! 😕), the water temperature was 100+ C. When I pulled over and opened the bonnet/hood (*) I saw water bubbling out from the cooler/radiator and I had to have the tow truck to come and take my car to a garage.

It was almost -20C in the morning and I guess that was too much for the car battery and also ruined the cooler/radiator. I don't think the engine is damaged but that I will on Monday.



(*) I am watching Wheeler Dealers where they speak UK/US car-english.
 
Soundbrigade,

Year and make of car?

No block heater?

Hopefully no damage!


Peaked at -43.3 C yesterday morning (Flin Flon airport) and likely the same this morning. Saw -44 in town. Luckily no wind and sunny days so it actually warmed to a much more bearable -24-25 in the afternoon.
 
Currently 19 F in Northern Lower Mi with a broken layer around 3200 feet and wind out the south knocking snow out of the pine trees.


Later today snow showers. High near 22. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of around an inch possible.
 
Soundbrigade,

Year and make of car?
No block heater?
Hopefully no damage!
Peugeot 206SW, 75hk, year 2006. No block heter. I could go for 5 km and nothing was out of the ordinary until warning light came on.
A friend said that a radiator sometimes cracks upen at seams between aluminium and plastic due to corrosion. If such a joint broke, the engine block was meybe pretty emptied.

Anway, the cold weather continues with temperatures between -10 and -15 C.
 
I guess we will see Peugeot again with the Fiat deal with them. Which engine! Block heater would be worth adding while the rad is being replaced. Maybe try a small ceramic fan heater under the hood with a n old blanket & tarp for now.

I picked up a 2012 Ford Fiesta over a year ago that was written off from a minor front end accident for cheap as it looked bad in the photos and it has the the DSP6 auto that there was a class action lawsuit against and the owners won. Will eventually put a std. trans. in it.

No temp gauge in it either, so will have to add one, but still looking for cheap used body parts. Sure handles great as I drove it out of the junk yard!
 
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