Polar Vortex and your Mirage's cold start- up night time

[dspace9]

3 days of very cold start ups in southern Ontario during this polar vortex, and the car made it. The heat in the car was not great.

[foama]

I would expect you have a total grill block?

[dspace9]

I would expect you have a total grill block?

I haven't touched a thing on the car, everything is original.

[timw4mail]

My only issue was the driver-side windows fogging and frosting. It took longer for the car to get warm, but eventually it was nice an toasty.

This was with temperatures between -13F/-25C and 2F/-16.7 C.

[dspace9]

My only issue was the driver-side windows fogging and frosting. It took longer for the car to get warm, but eventually it was nice an toasty.

This was with temperatures between -13F/-25C and 2F/-16.7 C.

Nice and toasty eh? I wish haha I haven't found the heat to be that great in my Mirage, but the temps were really really low...

[timw4mail]

Nice and toasty eh? I wish haha I haven't found the heat to be that great in my Mirage, but the temps were really really low...

Sounds like you might have a heater core issue.

[dspace9]

Sounds like you might have a heater core issue.

Thanks I shall keep that one in mind.

[Mark]

We had cold temperatures last week. One friend claims he had -43F on one of the mornings. I can't say for sure it was as cold at my place, but it was surely in the -35F range. Since school was cancelled that morning, I didn't go anywhere until later in the day. My car had been sitting in the cold for two days (never got anywhere near 0F), & it was somewhere near -15F when I started my Mirage.

I used my 2 amp (low setting) battery charger for about 3 hours & new Kat's engine block heater for about 2 hours. The car fired up immediately! There was absolutely no hesitation. The real benefit, however, was felt inside the car. The inside of the car warmed up much faster than normal despite the cold temperatures.

The engine block heater cost me less than $30, & it's easy to install (no tools are necessary). You don't have to jack up the car. Just pop the hood, slip the heater in place until it clips, and zip tie your cord through the front grille. If interested, Top_Fuel's thread covers all you need to know on this topic in another thread.

[foama]

Good to hear the car is doing OK.
Sounds like you are having the kind of weather we used to have in these parts years ago, but nowadays winter is like down to 0°C at the most, and summer +40°C for months. So much to the climate.

[Top_Fuel]

3 days of very cold start ups in southern Ontario during this polar vortex, and the car made it.

The OEM battery in my 2015 struggled to start my car when I left work the other day (0F). My car is garaged so this is the coldest start it's ever had to do. I don't think my car would start if it was -20F. I will definitely be replacing this battery before next winter.