Frozen shite - YOUR cold start Vids..

[320touring]

Inspired by Drum's Olds cold start video, thought I'd pop up a thread for all us saddos who love to hear an engine start from cold.

 

ONLY POST YOUR OWN VIDEOS PLEASE!

 

To kick us off here are some of mine..

 

My 306 DTurbo XUD

 

 

My 320i E30 touring

 

 

My Alfa 156 2.4 JTD 10v

[320touring]

My BMW E36 320I Coupe

 

My Citroen GSA 1.3

 

MK1 VW Golf Rivage Cabriolet (had been sitting for 10 years!)

 

My s124 300D running 100% Veg

[The Moog]

is this so you can boost your YouTube earnings to pay for you veg!

[320touring]

is this so you can boost your YouTube earnings to pay for you veg!

I wish;)

 

Nah, between Drums vid, and me spending far too long on teh choob listening to Cummins/8v71/6.9 powerstrokes etc, I though it could be a good thread:)

[richardmorris]

I expect it’s tempting fate, but mine just start. Mercedes tested to -10 as well. The 2cv starts instantly as long as it has petrol in the carb.

[pandamonium]

Good idea, I'll try to do mine soon. 

[320touring]

I expect it’s tempting fate, but mine just start. Mercedes tested to -10 as well. The 2cv starts instantly as long as it has petrol in the carb.

Videos;)

[richardmorris]

Videos;)

Maybe tomorrow - I don’t have a youtube account though can I just load them here?

 

Edit, just found out about uploading videos, so I’ll give it a go. Too sick to go cycling in the morning anyway.

 

I’m also full of cold, so likely to sound like the creature from the black lagoon if I talk.

[SiC]

Older the car the more interesting they are to start especially those with carbs. Diesels always the most interesting on cold starts. Unless it's -30C out and then petrols struggle with the drag of the engine oil and gearbox oil.

 

Our A4 is boring. Once the plugs have heated it starts pretty much instantly. TT battery is tired so it usually weazes into life - occasionally takes two attempts if it's been sitting a while.

 

Was a warm day but this had been sitting for months unstarted.

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This was last year when it was +5C.

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I'm disappointed you have no cold start videos of your Morris!

[320touring]

I need to do the Oxford - just never really had a chance.

 

Will try to do it in the next couple of weeks

[bigstraight6]

Great stuff, the Peugeot Diesel spluttering into life brings back many happy memories. I would film my old VW Polo and Volvo S60 diesels on cold starts but they are just the same in minus 10 as the middle of summer...

[SiC]

A video of my MGB before the carb rebuild, old dizzy and the like. When it was like this it required a fair bit more persuasion to run and stay running.

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Noticeably rougher running. Much better oil pressure though!

[mrbenn]

Great idea for a thread. Will watch/add when back on wifi.

[Matty]

Big diesels for cold start win. I'll do our shunter Monday if it's cold enough

[drum]

I'll move it here.

 

While the Perkins is chugging away warming up in the background, I thought I'd fire up the Olds. Batteries were dead.

[strangeangel]

I've got no video, 'cos this was a long time ago, but just imagine... it's a freezing cold north Wales morning, and you've cranked yer wheezy old diesel over long enough to flatten the battery. So then you summon something a bit more powerful to provide a jump:

 

 

The bastard still wouldn't start, and only did so once one of the steam engineers shoved an electric paint stripping gun up the air intake.

[mat_the_cat]

OK, where do I start!?

 

Probably the first one I did was the LT in 2008, when I made the schoolboy error of forgetting to pull out the cold start timing advance knob.

 

 

I did one for the BX in 2012 - sorry for the dodgy filming!

 

 

Another one for the LT filmed in winter 2013/14.

 

 

My old BMW motorbike in early 2014:

 

 

A Focus I owned for a year or so when I took to to the Alps in winter 2016. I started it up the day before we drove back - better to find out then that it wouldn't start, than when we've vacated our apartment and have 1000 miles to drive back!

 

 

Lastly another for the BX in early 2018 - I'd left it under cover with the windows open a crack for ventilation. Returned home from work to find the cover ripped off and the snow blowing in!

 

[Fabergé Greggs]

Daf 66

 

 

LML star 2 stroke (Vepsa PX clone)

 

[jon.k]

Brilliant thread! 

[320touring]

Good efforts folks!

 

Looking forward to listening to them:)

[Shirley Knott]

Great thread As soon as it gets properly cold I'll film some of the fleet doing the cold start dance.

 

TBH both of the NA SDi diesels seem to start instantly even in the coldest weather. There're loads of videos on YouTube of folks with VAG SDi powered stuff starting in extreme low temperatures so it's a strong point for them it seems, almost no glow plugs required although they do sound extra clattery/rough so it's worth hearing and seeing for the diesel pervs amongst us!

 

Ironically in the fleet as it stands it's the 940 turbo that takes the longest to start in low temperatures...

[Guest Conan]

 

Just done this.

[richardmorris]

Have this stunningly boring 43seconds of me starting my 24year old daily driver in 3degrees. I was also trying to show the seatbelt butler working, as that really is the most exciting thing.

 

[drum]

A couple more from me.

 

Thought I'd demonstrate the flame start on the Perkins

 

When that didn't work I went for the old dumper

[Broadsword]

Old start cold start from me!

 

[captain_70s]

My video of the Olds cold starting, the most popular video I've ever posted to YouTube...

 

 

The Green Goddess at ShiteFest firing up for the first time in nearly a decade:

 

 

The Doloshite not long after I rescued it from the frozen north:

 

 

The Doloshite not long before it's engine exploded:

 

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