86subaru Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 as of 7am 1-16-09 , - 18 below , not including the wind blowing , got to work outside all day , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartless Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Ben - first thing, get the battery out of the van and brought in somewhere halfway warm and get it fully charged!! extreme cold WILL kill a battery. it is very cold here as well - around -17F give or take - wind chills around -35...no fun, and I feel for anyone that has to be out in it. so cold that they have cancelled school! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoorManzImpreza Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 hope you get your wife's ride sorted out.. been unusually cold here as well..almost got below seventy last night:grin: but I do miss winter... Kaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartless Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 hope you get your wife's ride sorted out..been unusually cold here as well..almost got below seventy last night:grin: but I do miss winter... Kaz Sure - rub it in... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Abides Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Still wont start im takeing drastic measures now.:horse:zzz:Flame: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bratman18 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Still wont start im takeing drastic measures now.:horse:zzz:Flame: Be careful!!! Is the pulley a metal one or composite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Abides Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 Ok i tried to jump my van with the subaru and got nothing. So either my jumper cables are garbage, or this van battery is toast. How can i be sure if i bring it down to autozone and they test it there not just trying to rip me off with a new battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyewdall Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 If it got discharged, then sat out in the cold, it's probably full of ice.... so it's toast. In that case, it probably won't show a voltage at all, especially under any load. And with the jumpers hooked up to the other car, it might show full voltage of the other battery, because it isn't drawing any current. Do some voltage measurements first.... then you know yourself whether it's good or toast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Abides Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 i dont have a volt meter something i do which is not smart. but i take the positive and negative when hooked up to the battery and tap them together to make sure ive got something. When i did it to the van. Nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zyewdall Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 i dont have a volt meter something i do which is not smart. but i take the positive and negative when hooked up to the battery and tap them together to make sure ive got something. When i did it to the van. Nothing. They start at about $4 at Harbor freight. The cheap ones do tend to become inaccurate if their battery gets low, but other than that, they work okay. Enough for some basic diagnostics, at least. I wouldn't use a cheap one for research grade work... If you didn't get a big spark... then it's probably somewhere between kind of dead and pretty dead :-\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bheinen74 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 ben- if the battery was discharged on these cold nights, then the battery is in fact going to be ruined. the water in them, without a charge, will freeze, and that actually ruins the cells in the battery. It will bulge the sides of the case to the battery, a bulged case means it froze at some point, and is no good, except for a core charge for a new replacement battery. A charged battery, left in the cold, will not freeze, and the charged ions keep it warm enough not to freeze. In the future, if you have a drained battery, and it gets to sub zero temperatures, then remove the battery from the vehicle, bring into the house. that saves it and can be charged up with a charger. but once it has froze, its toast, dead, no life, forever done for... anyhow..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durania Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 RS took a coupe turns to start this morning but finally did. I am thinking battery might not last another winter. We haven't seen temperatures like this since '03 so it has been a shock for everyone. I took a screen-shot for such occasion: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Abides Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 VROOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM Strange thing it started up when i went to attack it (Violet knows better not to mess with me). I went and had it tested on the car anyways. Not fully dead but pretty much there. 4 year old Factory battery with only 500 cold cranking amps. Pretty lame. So tomorrow its getting replaced with a brand new DieHard. I wanted to go interstate but ive got sears gift cards so to easy to get a good battery for next to nothing. I think there like 695-795 cold cranking amps. Mmmmmmmmmmm Power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crash321 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Glad you got her started, maybe a hairdryer for you PS pump if you dont have that other stuff the guys were mentioning. Good luck:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skip Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 we just made it to positive digits temp wise and I'm supposed to leave for FL in this (our travel trailer) in a couple days????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4WDFrenzy Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Also, this is kinda stupid but has anyone ever put house insalation in the door pannels and roof to quiet down there cars and maybe keep some heat inside of them. I've done it before. I used the mylar backed insulation that almost looks like bubble wrap. I used it on my wife's old Dodge Stratus when we owned it because the car sat out in direct sunlight for the better part of the day(8-9 hrs.) After installing it above the headliner and also the doors and floor boards, the change in temps was very dramatic, especially when a sun visor was used. I might also add, that this particular car also had tinted windows(35% front/ 20% rear). It(the insulation, not window tint) also works quite well for wrapping intercooler piping. Patrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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