Tips on operating the machine in cold

What motorists how to behave in a hard frost - for minus 20 - 23 °, and even under 30 °, when even the vaunted foreign cars (especially diesel) are beginning to refuse to start? And if frozen door locks and the car did not get? For any motorist Russian winter - is a true test of strength.

1. And you too have to go to such morozische?

One round trip car in freezing temperatures under minus 25 - 27, say, 50 - 70 kilometers equal in wear 500 - 800 kilometers summer run.

2. How to thaw after locking the doors open, at least one of the two?

First, grandfather, the way - the key to heat the cigarette lighter or a newspaper rolled into a tube, or a cotton swab dipped even eau de cologne and over again to insert it into the lock, trying not to much not to break, get away with here and there. But the wind and the lack of props, this method can be deleted; turn his hand in a glove tube, embrace her for sealing the other hand and blow into this tube to the blue in the face, every minute, trying to lock key, which should lie close to the body to keep warm;
insert a thin tube into the lock from any defrosting liquid (alcohol, WD-40 and others, better domestic) and press the button of the container for five - seven seconds. Then again, trying to develop a lock key;
If all life-saving fluids are stored in your cabin, you have no choice as any to go home for a plastic bottle with boiling water, or just ... pee on a castle.

3. If you opened the lock, how to open the door?

If the door tightly primerzla the gap, obstuchite its perimeter with his fist in a glove. Try the handle - not for the key! - To take off a few times here and there; obstuchat again - and again here and there, and if, for example, managed to open the boot, clap three times a trunk lid, so that an air bag, formed from it in the cabin, could help you squeeze out the door from the inside; obstuchite and again and again - here and there, and again applaud trunk;
You can catch the edge and gently wooden doors at the middle rack in the manner of "Foma" burglars, and if nothing has helped - pour out the door around the perimeter of the hot water, but plastic bottles need to have two or three.

4. At than to keep the car?

When the frost below minus 25 degrees oil - marking which begins with 10 W. .. 15 W. .. - Unacceptable. Must pour 0 W. .., in the extreme case of 5 W. .. In order to determine approximately the minimum operating temperature of the oil must be of the digits 35 or 30 to subtract the figure before the letter W. From this it follows:

with severe frosts poured into the engine must be "synthetic" or "polusintetiku" as mineral oils with such characteristics do not exist.

5. You entered the salon - how to start the engine?

If you do not glow heater, or so-called "heat battery" (see below), then such should be the sequence of your actions:

If the battery is "pretty bad" - remove it and pull back on charging. But no matter how good your battery may have been, more than 10 - 12 seconds of constantly "chasing" the starter is not recommended;
If the battery is good - turns on the ignition, and then either 1.5 minutes - dipped beam, or 10 seconds distant.This is to ensure that the battery started to work, and therefore - just warmed his electrolyte, warmer and capacity has increased;
clutch. At injection machines gas pedal does not have to deal with;
starter! Often neither the first nor the second time with the machine in a severe frost will not start, but "captures" all the longer term. Patiently repeat the operation until it acquired.
let the clutch pedal, holding the gearshift lever in neutral, should be slow and not earlier than a minute or two after the engine start. Another minute warm-box - it is warming up in neutral.