Oil temps in the North East USA?

[Lyle Seaman]

I've found that even something as minimal as throwing an old sleeping bag
over a warm battery at night will preserve a lot of cranking power until the
next morning.  I've thought about insulating the battery.  I know it would
be a bad idea in the summer, but I wonder how warm the battery gets in the
winter.


-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of CL Wong
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 10:40 PM
To: AudiFans
Subject: Oil temps in the North East USA?


After driving for 30 minutes on the highway in N
Jersey, I'm getting just a tad under the normal temp
which is the first thick hash mark at 10 or 11 oclock.

This morning my climate control said -3f and the
engine barely wanted to crank on a 1 month old
battery.  Running 15w50 mobil1.  I'll switch to 5w30
mobil1 this weekend to see if it helps but the
temperatures appear to be headed higher next week.