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Originally posted by Joeaksa
I can see you have never lived anywhere that its -30 degrees and the car sits outside in the weather all day long! If the oil gets to a certain point the car just will not turn over, not to mention start. You come out of work, put the key in and all you hear is "click" and nothing else...
With airplanes we drain the oil out of the car and keep it warm inside. Then refill and preheat the engine, otherwise there is no way it will start. With cars its too much hassle to do this so people rig up starters to warm the engine and systems every 3-4 hours until they drive home. Other option is to put a block heater on them IF you can get to an electrical plug-in every day.
Canada and northern parts of America deal with this all the time. Otherwise you tow the vehicle into a garage and let it warm up overnight and start over again.
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well sure, but a remote starter isn't fixing that, a heater would...like you say on airplanes, preheating, not "remote starting"
edit, just re-read it .. starting it every x hours to keep it warm , bit like ze germans and ze tiger tanks, ja?