| It is a cold Melbourne morning. Your feet are | | | | weather. Oil, just like any liquid, changes consistency |
| freezing, your scarf is so tight you feel as though | | | | when exposed to very low temperatures. Due to |
| you are strangling yourself and your fingers will not | | | | this, the oil may have a real effort trying to circulate |
| work because they are blue and cold. You slide into | | | | in the car engine. If you really hate your car and it |
| the front seat behind the wheel and turn the key. | | | | seems to be causing you more headaches than you |
| Nothing happens. Well it is winter! Now what do you | | | | need, why not search In their cars pages, you can |
| do? Call the automobile club, buy another car, or you | | | | search through thousands of cars for sale and list |
| can do a few simple things to prevent this happening. | | | | your vehicle on the market with the private listings |
| Starting a car with a cold engine can be easier said | | | | service. To list your vehicle quickly and easily, register |
| than done and there are times it can be a real | | | | as an individual - it's free to join. |
| frustration, particularly if you live in the hills or areas | | | | Thirdly, car batteries may experience problems during |
| that can become exceptionally cold. If you are like | | | | cold weather too, and consequently this could affect |
| me, and have experienced this problem, then you will | | | | the engine. Batteries function through chemical |
| understand how valuable it is to learn why and how it | | | | reactions, which lose velocity when cold and |
| happens, so that you can avoid it happening too | | | | therefore, will not function appropriately. As a result, |
| often. If you search online, you will find a number of | | | | the cars energy becomes 'distressed' and this is the |
| sites that can give you more information in articles | | | | reason why your engine will not start. |
| about cold engines. One of them is au and it can tell | | | | When the three difficulties occur at once, starting |
| you almost anything about your car. | | | | your engine may become uncompromising. How can |
| Cold engines do not start for various reasons. Firstly, | | | | you overcome the lack of petrol evaporation? You |
| it could be One of these reasons can be because of | | | | can spray ether into the engine, which would |
| the effect which cold weather has on liquid | | | | evaporate quickly and help your engine to start. The |
| evaporation. When it is cold, petrol evaporates less, | | | | other thing you can try is using thin synthetic oil, |
| causing difficulties as a result of being burnt when it is | | | | which will not thicken in the cold. Parking your vehicle |
| evaporated. | | | | in a garage out of the cold is another way of |
| Secondly, a cold engine might have problems in | | | | preventing the engine becoming too cold. |
| starting because oil happens to get thicker in cold | | | | |