I woke up this morning to go to work and the thermometer in my truck read...9 degrees...this is a new low for my truck...pretty chilly for East Tennessee...what's the lowest your truck's thermometer has read???? Just curious if they'll go into the minus degrees....

 

Yes it does go negative! -6F about 5 days ago... Damn cold!!!

 

-9 is the lowest on my truck was 0 a couple times this year, and yet still no snow

 

My 03 model once read "ICE" on a cold Georgia morning.

 

Mine hit -22 on a trip to the U.P. of Michigan to go snowmobiling. Lowest I have seen.

 

while working on a rask scene last night i had my truck about 4 feet away from the water and mine was reading -5 degrees F and there was ice forming on the river too i just feel bad for the car adn person that went in it we got the person out but the car is now a part of the river but -5 F was pretty cold and on top on the hil was reading 1 F

 

-15 just last week.....

-23 last year...

 

9 degrees here this morning.

 

Pfffttt....this was last Friday when I dropped my son off at school

 

-43*F its painful.

 

Mine dropped to -11F out here on the NE plains of Colorado.

 

I am just curious when the temp reaches well below freezing like 0 or into the negatives do we have to do anything special to keep our trucks safe?

I am pretty much never in that cold of weather but I am just curious if it was -20 degrees out how much trouble it could cause with our trucks.

 

-20 to -27 daily Jan-Feb on normal year in ND

 

you really dont have to do much- i've got a block heater and when we stick into the -20's to -30's+ for more than a week I will plug my truck in at night
no special attention needed- once you do start driving it, ease into the gas to allow the low-viscosity fluids to circulate (greases/lubes...)

 

cool. I just noticed the other thread in GD pretty much answering these questions.. =D

one more though. How does the block heater work?