My 993 Likes the Cold
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2001
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Is your 993 feeling stronger in the cold?
Mine feels good but never gets up to temp enough to open the valve to the oil cooler and register on the gauge unless I let it idle after a good drive for 10+ minutes. Lucky I just checked it and put in a quart so I know I am fine. Taking it a little easy on the revs until I get up in the temp a bit.
Mine feels good but never gets up to temp enough to open the valve to the oil cooler and register on the gauge unless I let it idle after a good drive for 10+ minutes. Lucky I just checked it and put in a quart so I know I am fine. Taking it a little easy on the revs until I get up in the temp a bit.
Drifting
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Calgary, Alberta
The coldest temp I've run my car is about 0 F. I took my 95 year old father in law for a run out to Cochrane and back. The car started and ran just fine, but it took a long time to warm up:
He really enjoyed the ride, and I was glad we went out when we did, because we lost him a few months later.
He really enjoyed the ride, and I was glad we went out when we did, because we lost him a few months later.
Three Wheelin'
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Bend OR
Mike, why don't you give us a paper cut and pour lemon juice on it? 
Seriously, it is wicked cold in Seattle, but the beast seems to enjoy the cold air. During temps like this, I wish I had heated seats too. Really enjoyed them in my wife's M3 last night, that is for sure. See you around.
Seriously, it is wicked cold in Seattle, but the beast seems to enjoy the cold air. During temps like this, I wish I had heated seats too. Really enjoyed them in my wife's M3 last night, that is for sure. See you around.
Pro
Joined: Sep 2009
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Winter number 17 for my '95.
Most of my driving is winter months; motorcycle summers.
-15F is as cold as I've driven her.
Nokian Haks, never been seriously stuck.
Black ice/freezing rain a few days ago, schools closed, 4x4's ditch diving etc; she was nervous on the ice, but controllable.
Gordo
Most of my driving is winter months; motorcycle summers.
-15F is as cold as I've driven her.
Nokian Haks, never been seriously stuck.
Black ice/freezing rain a few days ago, schools closed, 4x4's ditch diving etc; she was nervous on the ice, but controllable.
Gordo
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Racer
Joined: Aug 2013
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Mike, why don't you give us a paper cut and pour lemon juice on it? Seriously, it is wicked cold in Seattle, but the beast seems to enjoy the cold air. During temps like this, I wish I had heated seats too. Really enjoyed them in my wife's M3 last night, that is for sure. See you around.
Seriously, it is wicked cold in Seattle, but the beast seems to enjoy the cold air. During temps like this, I wish I had heated seats too. Really enjoyed them in my wife's M3 last night, that is for sure. See you around.It was super fun to drive your car last weekend! Love how your car is sorted.
Makes me want to get a C2 as well
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Drifting
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Calgary, Alberta
Pro
Joined: Sep 2009
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Hey there Rinty!
Have a little dab of rust on the cowl at the windshield, that's it.
Winter sanding has eroded paint along rear edges of all wheelwells...but she's a driver with other warts and bruises, due for a refresh one of these years.
Gordo
Have a little dab of rust on the cowl at the windshield, that's it.
Winter sanding has eroded paint along rear edges of all wheelwells...but she's a driver with other warts and bruises, due for a refresh one of these years.
Gordo
Instructor
Joined: Jul 2011
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It’s -8°F in Mpls and I returned a while ago from the coin car wash after cleaning up my ‘96C4 following the 18-hr 6” snow from mid-week. I’m running Pirelli SnowSports and I love how they cut the stopping distance in half vs my summer Conti DW’s. You can’t beat a rear engine for stopping, or for doing donuts in the parking lot on packed snow. I was asked about the car’s heating ability, and I said that it heats up faster than my wife’s Lexus. For these frigid months, I like to monitor my car’s oil temp with a GoPoint BT1 connected to their app on my i5. Most of the data is boring, but I like to watch the oil temp come up as I fire it up in mid-summer or on sub-zero days. By the time the car is running and the BT1 has done the hand-shake with my phone’s app, the temp is around 130 and rising swiftly. I know where it’s headed – 286°F in the summer where it stubbornly stays long enough to make me think it’s malfunctioned. But since I’ve done the ‘Take control of your spoiler’ mod (very simple DIY) I can raise the spoiler and watch the temp drop into the 260’s. And in the sub-zero winter, it will stop in the 230’s. At the car wash, after a 20-min drive, I waited at idle for the oil gauge’s needle to indicate that the oil level was in the healthy zone…and it never moved. Evidently the oil’s thermostat had yet to open. I love my DD, and yesterday after work I got a post-it note stuck to my windshield from an admirer who said I inspired him to drive his Bimmer 'all winter through the snow'.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jul 2013
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From: Portland, OR
I was just on the phone with my father whos driving a 997.2 C4S (which came with 20's and 325s in the rear) while he was trying to drive home. He lives out in the boonies and the car read -17*F. He didnt make it up his driveway so I'm assuming itll stay at the bottom of the hill for the night and he'll hoof it up to the house. Hes got more ***** than I do because I wouldnt have tried that with those conditions. Reading all these posts are fun, but I notice a majority are people with AWD, makes me even more second guess how my car would handle these winter conditions.
Instructor
Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 128
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From: The Magic City, MT
I was wondering about the bouncing idle. I have not been brave enough to take my C4 out, Roads are terrible in Billings after snow and 20 below. Mostly worried about the other drivers. Subaru and Land Cruiser for DD. The whole fleet except my 914 is AWD.
Now I'm very tempted to go and drive in the snow.
Now I'm very tempted to go and drive in the snow.