Polar Vortex

[X5Cat]

Originally Posted by Whitecat

Temperature went down to -40 here in Montreal...and yes school were all open :-)...heated garage is almost mandatory here if you want to stay away of problems.

Our garage is heated very well here most of the year. I have been missing it this week!

[JCL]

Originally Posted by Whitecat

Temperature went down to -40 here in Montreal...and yes school were all open :-)...heated garage is almost mandatory here if you want to stay away of problems.

I think it went down to around -16C in Montreal this week. You can't consider wind chill, it doesn't mean it was that cold.

I remember a long spell of -40 C in northern Alberta some years back (without wind chill, meaning actual temperature). We asked the elementary school if they would be open the next day, and they said of course, they weren't allowed to close. If they did, all the kids who walked to school could be locked out, so they were always open. Builds character.

[upallnight]

In these days of social media and everyone connected it is very easy to notify parents that schools will be closed due. We received a robo call from our children school informing us that school will be closed due the the extreme cold. I can think of better ways to build characters such as walking to school instead of driving little johnny the 4 blocks to school. But everyday that I walk my kids to school I see a bunch of parents driving their kids to school.

[Whitecat]

Originally Posted by JCL

I think it went down to around -16C in Montreal this week. You can't consider wind chill, it doesn't mean it was that cold.

I remember a long spell of -40 C in northern Alberta some years back (without wind chill, meaning actual temperature). We asked the elementary school if they would be open the next day, and they said of course, they weren't allowed to close. If they did, all the kids who walked to school could be locked out, so they were always open. Builds character.

Hello Jcl ! -40 or so has been reached here in Montreal end of Dec and it was a peak at night ...we always forget the wind chill factors that can almost double what you see on the board
Environment Canada - Weather and Meteorology - Canada
Estimating Wind Chill
Wind Speed (km/h)

[Brandon002]

The day we had the -56 wind chill I went out to start my X.. It fired right up, but man was it the most horrible sound I have ever heard. Sounded like a turbine under the hood for a good 30 seconds. Ran fine after that.

That cold spell we had in Illinois was freaking brutal.

[Whitecat]

Wow Impressive ! Any issue with misfire with ur N62 at cold start when putti g in reverse ?
Mine has some (rarely).... it help when i let her warm up a bit before - another interesting point is that thsi occured only when she slept in the garage - never get a single misfire when outside...someone in this forum was saying to let her run a bit when entering in the garage -

Ps : diagnostic already identified in my case : intermediate lever - vacuum leaks - valve cover gasket ...

take care

[srmmmm]

Originally Posted by Brandon002

The day we had the -56 wind chill I went out to start my X.. It fired right up, but man was it the most horrible sound I have ever heard. Sounded like a turbine under the hood for a good 30 seconds. Ran fine after that.

That cold spell we had in Illinois was freaking brutal.

That turbine sound was probably your secondary air pump, and a possible indicator of its failure in about six months (based on a $200 eBay sourced replacement experience!)

2002 X5 3.0 246,400 miles
2004 325i 110,000 miles

[TerminatorX5]

here is a picture of the Polar Vortex...

[ProfessorX5]

My X was covered in about an inch of ice. Took about 10 buckets of hot water to get the drive door open... and lots more to get the ice off the rest.

Started fine, but then my tstat stuck open, then started misfiring. One Italian tuneup and new tstat later she seems to be running right.

[Brandon002]

I did get the intermediate lever misfires when starting in the cold. It does it occasionally when it's below freezing. I just shut the car off, restart and the problem goes away. I've read numerous posts where people deal with this problem by a simple restart of the engine. Seems to work for me and I'll deal with it before I'll go diving in to replace those levers until something else goes wrong that requires me to dig that far in to the engine.