Most batterys that far north have trickle chargers to keep them alive and sometimes battery blankets to keep warm. A lot of people opt for AGM batteys too because they aren't affected by the cold.
Freezing cold weather kills car battery, it's also hard on the Alternator and starter. That's why when you start your car, you hear it taking a few seconds to start up after turning the key to the on position and waiting for the sound to go off before starting your ignition. I try not to use my heat in the Winter, because it draws a lot of power from the Alternator and shortens the lifespan causing premature wear. When my windows fog up I have no choice, I have to defrost the windows then turn it off afterwards. But it fogs up again due to the cold.
What kind of dumb logic is that not using the heat in winter cause of "premature wear".. If your alternator is going out with a load on, it's going out anyway. Alternators are meant to handle loads and still produce enough power to recharge the battery. Its a few extra amps to a blower circuit. Wherever the heat knob is is actually entirely redundant. The engine makes the heat. The alternator short of spinning has nothing to do with it. The blower would not even put a crazy load on the altnerator..Even with a crazy load Ive never heard that increased electrical output can cause damage. Maybe if it is getting hot or something but at that point it had an issue anyway. @@static_Tricolor_camry
@@burnthompson286 I just thought it fit because typically these memes start with "we makin it out the BLANK" I thought it was funny to compare the noise the car was making to like a song or beat or something with the ultimate goal being the car starting so you can "make it out the driveway!" Ya dig?
my guess was fuel or moisture was frozen in the injectors or line, when he reprimed the fuel pump it pushed the ice threw or repressure the injectors, on that model honda the fuel pump will shutdown untill the key is cycled again after cranking that long. thats extreme cold conditions should be using a dipstick or oil pan magnet heater, full synthetic 0w- 20 should be used also around -30 degrees and lower.
@@jongonegone1262usually cars in this kind of climate are weatherised and have heating elements on the oil pan but I’m not sure about the fuel tank. Don’t see it too often.
I mean I started up my 95 Buick with a 3800 like a week ago and it was negative 28 in Minnesota. Up here if your car doesn't start when it's cold like that you don't have reliable transportation. When I lived in Texas they shut the state down for like a half inch of snow I showed up for work in the whole city was shut down. Out here you get a foot of snow and it's negative 30 and it's just another day everybody's going about their business.
@@knucklestheechidna5718Well, that's largely because Texas infrastructure and road crews aren't properly equipped to handle snow. They lay sand instead of salt/chemicals, which won't chew your car up, but also does a piss-poor job of displacing snow and ice. The drivers out there lack the skill set to drive in slick conditions because they never drive in it. And half of everyone's tires are as bad as Joe Rogan.
@knucklestheechidna5718 Last week it was around that here in Des Moines, about -25. 2015 Civic started right up with about a 2 second long crank! Agree. If your car can't handle subzero all the time in the winter, don't live where it gets that cold. You'll be screwed.
@@knucklestheechidna5718I got an 05 Pontiac Grand Prix with 3800 series 3 and it never fails to start in -20 Michigan weather after a new battery couple years back
I had one as my first car (2003 4 cylinder) which was my aunt’s former car. Unfortunately it was an automatic, which made the car tremendously boring, with a severely rotted undercarriage, because apparently my aunt never discovered FluidFilm or WoolWax. The sad part is the engine only had around 60k miles. I would’ve definitely freed the engine’s captivity by manual swapping it, if she wasn’t a victim of the salt belt.
Not rare for the 5-speed 4 cylinders..... But for a v6-6speed sedan..... those were only made for 06-07 03-07 v6-6sp coupes 03-05 v6 sedan was only automatic
not at all. modrn synthetic oils are still somewhat thin at low tempatures and maintain their viscoscity well. this is one huge benefit of synth oils. but at this goddamn shitass temp it would prob be like some really really heavy gear oil
I have an 04 2.4L, and I highly recommend the V6 battery swap. Look it up on the forums, my car starts perfectly with it, granted the worst I got is -30C but still. Bigger battery with more CCA might help a bit
@@caseyhogan2142I can’t say I’ve experienced that bad, but I work in -20 and colder every day- I insulate houses for a living and it ain’t warm until I’m done my job 🙃
It may start to crystallize or something but actually freezing, solid, no it does not. I live in Northwestern Ontario, it might freeze but it doesn't freeze enough to be unusable, in that case too, which I'm confused about, it's water that freezes and there is no water in fuel otherwise the engine would lock up aka hydro locking. I don't believe there's anywhere on earth that will actually freeze fuel.
The same can be said about my 2017 Hyundai Elantra (yes I got the anti theft installed), but it is extremely reliable and even in the single digits, she still starts right up in 2 seconds without any issues. I love my Elantra!
Gasoline should freeze at around -45°C. Not to mention that even a 0Wxx oil would be at its absolute limits. I doubt it is really -57° (no matter if C or F), or they use adapted fuel and oil.
In most cases battery would die from both cold and using it's capacity somewhere halfway through. Gotta love how you got "check engine" light immediately. I would do that if I were you 😂
I had the same gen 2.4. The inline-4’s battery had ridiculously low Cold cranking amps. The V6 had a bigger battery and there’s a mod people do to make it fit in the 2.4. Basically modding the battery tray if I recall correctly. Winter starts sucked.
That’s very impressive! But if I was you, I would look for a good engine oil heater that you could use to heat the oil up a little. There’s lots of different types. And of course use a quality synthetic 0W20 motor oil, or even maybe a 0w16.
I calibrate diesel engines for cold start, and I salute the engineers who designed and calibrated this engine. I don't know if an external heater was being used to heat the incoming air or the engine coolant, but eitherway, it is an impressive achievement. Kudos to the team at Honda. Brilliant engineering as always.
Oh dang watching you hit the clutch in that cold weather brought back an old old memory of me doing that same thing on a subzero winter morning in an 84 ford mustang and something in the clutch linkage broke. Booom! Right to the floor. Was a rough morning.
@@shiftfocus1lol that's my accord right now with the temperature in the negatives. The pedal will slowly traverse up half way then snap the rest of the way.
I used to have an 86 mustang. In the mornings that car was so cold. The seats were like concrete blocks, moving the stick was like trying to stir mud. And yeah the clutch pedal was very stiff. I eventually installed an in-cab heater
GM and Ford have “cold rooms” that they specifically use to cold start. Some of the engines they cold start and immediately rev the engine as high as it can go until it gives out so they can use the best scenario engine. I imagine Honda and Toyota do the same.
Well i guess your motor had a chance to move some of that oil (molasses) around before it fired with all that turning over! Holy cow! Honda guy here and I am proud right now
Damn that's cold! 🥶 I don't think my 04' Yukon XL would be able to handle that temp. I've had to drive friends to school bc their cars won't start in the 12° weather where I live
I had an 01 Tahoe with the 5.3 with like 400,000km on it and the block heater fried the first winter I had it. It was a pain to change so I never did. That thing always started. Got down to -30°C and colder many times. I did run 0w30 in the winter so that might have helped a bit.
I remember driving my old Ford van in those temps. It would start fine, but the clutch would very slowly engage when you released the clutch pedal. This was long before synthetic oils.
I like too do the good ole crank for 15 secs then stop for 30. Its firing when your starting it, and creating heat, Let the heat warm up what it can, and then try again. Kind of like a diesel without glow plugs. Once that intake gets just a littttllle heat It should start
I had a 95 jeep that started in negative 56. None of my newer cars would start tho. Only the older one. When we had a artic polor vortex and it was negative 50 for like 2 weeks straight bit was crazy.
Just imagine how thick that oil must have been. I'm surprised it could even start at all. props to that battery for still holding a charge in that cold.
Amazing! Quick question, after the car finally started, did you press the accelerator? Or it was at that high speed idle? I ask out of curiosity, because the colder it is, the higher the RPMs. I have never experienced that cold, the coldest I have ever started my car was like 5°F years ago, and after it started, it was idling fast. So am wondering if you hit the gas. If not, wow, that car was idling at a super high speed!!!
Even in just the lower 20s my car idles around 1k, albeit it’s only that high for a couple of minutes. Interestingly, it also has a ‘EPM’ system that’ll boost idle speed based on battery voltage and temperature.
Hahaha I had a manual Tacoma and even at minus 15 Celsius the clutch pedal would be slow to come back up. Once you drive around and warm it up a bit the problem went away.
@@GretaTurdeau OMG you made me laugh. Winter 1984 I had a job in Lake Louise Alberta and I owned a Plymouth Volare. The night before I was scheduled to get my block heater installed in Banff the cold hit, no way my Volare was starting. So I went to my work and got 3 chafing fuel cans and a waiters tray. I lit the fuel inside and took it out, crawled under my car and heated the oil pan with the small fire. And she started right up!! So there you go.
@@free2roam674Funny, my relatives did it to tractors mostly. I don't think modern cars would like it much. But hey, insurance might buy you a new one if the plastic lights up. Lol
It would have been better if it was actually -57 when this video was made. No gloves and the door is open the entire time and this person just hanging out with no issues whatsoever. I call BS.
That’s impressive! My poor 20 year old minivan didn’t want to start during our -10 Fahrenheit weather. I think the van would have given up forever if I tried to start it in -57
I’m curious to know what would happen if you quickly hooked up a battery that was kept inside the house versus a battery that has been outside in that sort of environment
It wouldn’t make much difference honestly. The hard start was more down to the engine and oil being so cold. The battery performed like it should. A warm battery would not have made the car start any faster.
Other guys dead wrong lol. The oil makes a difference, but not nearly as much as the battery. From someone who lives where it gets -50. Taking the battery inside would help it crank faster, it wouldnt fall off so hard on the compression strokes, and youd get a much more stable voltage. The difference temperature makes gets more noticeable as the battery ages. Not worth it unless you know you're gonna have a hard time starting in the morning though.
Hello there, could I use a fragment of your video for my coldstarting compilation? Of course I will put a link to your original video in the description, increasing the original’s popularity too. -57f no windchill I assume? That's crazy, what kind of oil do you use in it? What year and engine is the Accord? Great that it started bone cold, about the coldest I've seen! Thanks a lot for you answer in advance :)
