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On 22 Aug 2005 at 22:44, Steven Ayres wrote: > JimA=> Where is Prescott? > > Halfway up the state and a mile in the air. Another hour north of here > and you're over 7000. Okay, I mapquested you and now I understand. Nice area. A friend's folks live just a bit farther north and (I think) on the other side of I-17. Not exactly sure of the town. > => How cold does it get there? > > It's not Wisconsin (or Michigan, from whence I escaped), but we do have > actual water-pipe-bursting, wind-chill winter. Of course, it's not > Flagstaff, either, which at 7500 is almost as stupid cold as Wisconsin, > and without actual summer. I've passed by Flagstaff in both the summer and the winter. It looked pretty nice to me. ;-) Phoneix in the summer is one place I'd never want to be. How cold does it actually get in Prescott? Pipe bursting can happen anywhere below 32F, which really isn't all that cold as far as your car is concerned. Do you ever see sub-zero temps? My guess is that 15F might be as low as you ever see, but I'll believe whatever you tell me. Your car will do fine with SAE30 at 25-30F. It might be okay at 15F. I know it won't like SAE40 at -10F, BTDT. That was my first winter experience with my '68 square. I got caught with SAE30 when the weather suddenly (and I mean SUDDENLY) took a turn straight down. Drove to Chicago and parked just fine one day, but woke up the next morning to find that the engine wouldn't crank at all. We managed to push the car into my girlfriend's garage (built under the house) where it warmed up enough that it started easily. I drove it to Madison and got the oil changed right away. Lesson learned. ;-p -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~