A car for the cold... bonnet temp -30°C
On our winter holiday in the Engadine valley, canton Graubünden Switzerland.
Ambient temperature -20°C (without the wind chill)
Snow temp -24°C
Car bonnet -30°C
Car battery -14°C
Car showing -20°C ambient
Battery dropped 12% charge overnight due to the cold: parked at 100%, this morning is at 88%
THIS is why I love the parking heater, and having a good strong battery...
Ironically, I had no trouble driving here, apart from in Zurich, where I high-centered (bottomed out) the car on 30cm of heavy snow on an unploughed road trying to turn into a driveway.. Efforts to move had me sliding sideways towards a parked car. I stopped when I was 2 foot shy of the car and started digging out the snow from under my car.... got it out OK, and was happy I packed my show shovel! AWD worked perfectly... spinning front and rear wheels as needed...
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XC90 R-Design MY2009, Black Sapphire Metallic. HP-Sound, RSE, Nav, Tel, ParkingCam, BLIS, ParkingHeater, RestHeat, Removable Towbar, Summer: CRATUS 20x8 on Pirelli Scorpion Zeros 255/45, Winter: NEPTUNE 17x7 on Continental WinterContact 4x4 235/65.
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