Re: Miscellany and extreme cold

["Stephen Bigelow" <sbigelow@sprint.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jenny Curtis <jenny@physics.spa.umn.edu>

>Now for serious car content:  There was a terrible cold snap in Minneapolis
over
>Christmas and the Princess struggled with starting.  (-20 degree wind
chills).
>She started like a dream in the morning after sitting all night on the
street in
>the extreme cold, but I found that if I drove her around for an hour and
parked
>her for about an hour I had a heck of a time restarting.  Has anyone else
>experienced this?

Yep, my coupe used to do this....something wonky in the cold start valve. I
just unplugged it, and cranked it. Guess it was flooding. Cheap to try,
anyway.


Northern Princesses should know that wind chill doesn't affect cars (except
perhaps the rate of cool-down)...only bare skin. The air temperature is the
same, wind or not.

We're getting temps of -20C...*without* factoring in the wind.

Brr.