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Originally Posted by litew8
IDK, you must have poor altitude or something. I said above 40, you consider that dead of winter? Not around here.
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I'm sorry that I missed the above 40* comment. I was just responding to the info that you found, with the way it related to the initial discussion of this thread
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Originally Posted by hamjet
Well, I slept on your ideas of running a vehicle in cold for 20, 30 minutes, and I guess all are guilty of this when you drive 20 minutes to work every day and then drive home, or if you run to the corner market for a loaf of bread, or run little Jimmy 5 blocks to school because its too cold for him to walk. I guess I'll have to do more pondering.....
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I agree most of us have to do that, but those short trips have always been the worst thing we can do to our cars/trucks in every way (wear & tear, oil breakdown, etc), but that is totally another discussion.
This is why when people sell cars, they usually try to get more money for them by putting "all highway miles" in their ads.
The difference is that we buy our regular vehicles, so we can use them for that exact reason. When we take our toys off the road for the winter, we are doing it to protect them a little bit and trying to save them from the conditions that daily drivers are subjected to.
You ever had a vehicle running for a good amount of time, in the winter,
after it's brought up to temperature, and then taken a valve cover off after it sat for a while in a garage? Many times you will see condensation built up on the underside of the valve cover. That's not the only place it's going to build up. This is another reason for the argument of why people like to change their oil before storing away for the winter.
I guess this has now been beaten to death enough, so I guess I've said all that I'm going to on this subject. I just hope that it might have given a person or two something else to think about
