American Reacts to European Diesels COLD STARTS PART 2! *Extreme Cold

[@martinwebb1681]

S is for Sweden. Serbia is SRB.

[@christianmadl]

i thought swedish car plates are yellow😮

[@Henrik_Holst]

@@christianmadl taxis have yellow plates in Sweden, every one else have white

[@kevinbennersten1446]

​@@christianmadland i hate the new plates, im so used to seeing 123 XXX now we see 123 XX4 which sucks, still happy i have the old one thought

[@martinwebb1681]

@@christianmadl ... No, yellow plates are used in the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and in the United kingdom on rear plates with front plates being white. All other European countries car plates are white plates.

[@baandro8128]

@@martinwebb1681 no taxis in Sweden have yellow aswell

[@TheXshot]

Serbia is not part of the EU. S stands for Sweden :)

[@bon3scrush3r]

Serbia is SRB and no Eu stars , a lot of them have the blue part. But what happened with the stars on the Swedish one ?¿

[@ab-te8kv]

Serbia is still Europe❗ And €uSSr is not Europe❗

[@TheXshot]

@@ab-te8kv I didn't say anything about Europe. I said EU.

[@iamthearmul]

Serbia would be RS if it was in EU plates. They apparently have wanted to join. "Serbia applied to join the European Union (EU) in 2009 and has been a candidate for membership since 2012, along with nine other states."

[@12OZK12]

@@ab-te8kv Typical illiterate Serbian.

[@georgelynch6139]

-15c is just a cool normal in Sweden

[@tomt5745]

a normal morning

[@markwilkie3677]

Id rather suffer -15 than what we get in Scotland 😅😅

[@Alfadrottning86]

lol, its not even a "normal" here in Iceland .. we can get negative 20 and more, but actually farily rarely .. we usually hover around the more mild -5 to -10

[@JohanHultin]

@@markwilkie3677 You say that, but depending on where in sweden you are, you have that same humidity ontop of the cold, not pleasent I promise.

[@Perra1901]

A nice autumn/spring temp here in middle sweden.

[@iamthearmul]

We have summer and winter diesel in northern Europe. At work we ordered big delivery from a Spanish company. A truck driver from spain drove straight to Finland with summer diesel during winter. He got to truck parking near us, went to sleep and woke up in morning frozen, since diesel had clogged. He was very cold when in morning he came to our workplace. We ordered a truck mainentance company to suck out the summer diesel and replaced it with winter version while he sat in heat treatment room we have in production. I bet this will be last time he will come to Finland in middle of winter without winter clothes in slippers and summer diesel fuel.

[@dextergandia1928]

Winter diesel? Never heard about that, what is the difference?

[@iamthearmul]

@dextergandia1928 It's a bit different refinement process. Energy density is slightly sacrificed to archieve lower cloud point, and additives that prevent geling. For normal diesel the storage temp is -5C and -15C for minimum specified use temp. Winter diesel can be stored down to -29C and is usable until -34C.

[@mimpp1975]

Winter diesel specks are actually nowadays -29/-38C, there is also arctic diesel available in the middle of winter up north. The first number is cloudpoint and the second number is cold filter plugging point. For arctic diesel those are -40/-44

[@Starkiller935]

Not only northern Europe, it's the same in Czechia

[@hanswurst2490]

​@@dextergandia1928- 15 is usually the limit. Then Diesel gets very viscous/think, even "flocking out". In former days we added petrol (Germany). Then the producers delivered the "winter diesel". Petrol or chemical additives? I don't know.

[@goranforsberg639]

That red BMW is Swedish

[@Patrik6920]

ya Vehicle: S - Sweden -Serbia is SCG (from old 'Srbija i Crna Gora' in serbian/bosnian means 'Serbia and Monetenegro')- ISO Alpha2/3 codes: Sweden: SE/SWE, Serbia: RS/SRB Come to my attention Serbia and Montenegro uses ISO Alpha 2/3 for plates atm, Serbia SRB; Montenegro MN

[@flopjul3022]

@@Patrik6920 Serbian license plates are SRB not SCG

[@Sakhmeov]

And it's a 335d. Love those, had a beamer myself with the xDrive until a couple of years ago. That there is the M57, which is a masterpiece of an I6, and along with the earlier N57 is right up there with the Merc 606 as possibly the greatest general automotive diesels ever designed.

[@uroskostic8570]

@@Patrik6920 Serbia has SRB plates, Montenegro has MN

[@psm767]

În România sunt cutremure, tornade etc..

[@MickeyStartraveller]

"mechanical sympathy" sounds like a great metal album

[@Dan340000]

🤣

[@монстр-р9ж]

We already have "Technical Extasy" =)

[@onnasenshi7739]

This reminds me of a story from my childhood, we had a ski hut in Austria and on Sunday morning my father and 3 of my uncles wanted to go for a “Frühschoppen” (a Sunday morning drink). It was about -15 °C. First my father's Opel Rekord - battery dead, then to the Mercedes 200D - wouldn't start, on to a Mazda 626 - that also refused to start and finally an attempt with a Ford Taunus - that didn't start either. None of the vehicles was older than 1 year, the last one was my mother's VW Beetle, with the impressive age of 18 years and that was the only car that ran. 😂

[@bon3scrush3r]

It gets cold in Romania yes , our record is −38.5 °C (−37.3 °F) . It used to be colder , we used to get to -20C(-4°F) even in the South from time to time. Nowadays it's not that cold if you're not in the mountains , maybe a few really cold weeks during january and february . Right now we have -°C in most of the country during the night.

[@tedminatorul]

The crazy thing about that climate is that the difference between summer and winter temperatures can excede 70⁰C!

[@mindscraper1978]

Bucharest, Romania, is on the same latitude as Montreal, Europes climate is closer to Canadas as to the US climate as it is latitude is comparable.

[@tedminatorul]

@@mindscraper1978 Yes, it is on the same latitude, but Romania is nowhere near the ocean and that changes the climate a lot. That's why there can be almost 40⁰C in July and sometimes as low as -30⁰C in January.

[@qr3579]

You are right Ian, the Toyota in Russia is gasoline. Diesels don't use carburators.

[@ItsDaElk]

January 1985 Bavaria south -34C° my then beloved Mercedes 200D/8 didn't start even after a liter of Petroleum plus a heater under the car. We all had to make a round trip to each workplace with the one petrol car in the family. On the way there were even trucks, well all Diesels stranded by the road. Unforgettable coldest couple of days I can remember. By the way Ian...I could really picture you in a Mercedes 300D/8 (W115). I bet you'd love to cruise around with one of those 😊

[@robertholmberg6325]

From Sweden here. Have a diesel heater in the car. Nice to come out to a warm car in the winter. 🙂

[@adpop750]

Nowadays you pump winter-diesel at the gasstations in winter, so the Diesel doesn't start to crystalize in freezing temperatures but that works only up to -20°C (-4°F). Below those temperatures you need resort to the trick from the old days, which is mixing a few liters of normal gasoline into the diesel (not more than 3-4 liters gasoline on 60 liter diesel though).

[@jaskajokunen3716]

in finland winter diesel is good for -38c, storage temps are max -29c Then there is arctic diesel that can be stored at -40c doubt you can get that at regular gas stations.

[@iamthearmul]

@@jaskajokunen3716 Neste gas stations have arctic diesel in northern parts of Finland at selected gas stations in coldest time of winter. I don't know if it's every year thing but last year they had it.

[@ArinmarDeKaldenoc]

in modern diesel cars its dangerous to mix in gasoline..it can and most probaply will damage the motor

[@ivankuzin8388]

Do not do that with modern common rail, and especially don't do that if you have modern BMW diesel! Just a whiff of gasoline will kill these nozzles. With old diesels, even old injected like PD from WV group, you are fine doing that. I had a 1.9 TDI PD, used to put 5l of 95 petrol in 50l of summer diesel, worked like a charm in -25 :)

[@audriusbaranauskas6227]

We used to do it too back in the day. A few liters of gasoline to the tank. But back then the diesel quality was bad and the engines were simple.

[@tntfreddan3138]

The Volvo 740 is a petrol car. The B230 is a 2.3L I4 petrol engine. The "B" stands for "Bensin" which means petrol.

[@MMKnight_1]

yep!

[@Fydron]

Coldest start i experienced with diesel was -38c 2003 in Finland i had 5.7L Oldsmobile custom cruiser it was painful start but with 3 batteries and heating the car with large moveable heater 30 min of cranking it was a great success.

[@jone8626]

Used to have a Volvo D4, never had any issues in -30 doing cold starts. The Webasto would turn on because of low battery at those temps but it always started right up. Same with the BMW 2.0 Diesel I had, no engine heater, in -30 it always started right away. Both were had around 80 000km on them so almost new.

[@rami1406]

Mondeo 2016, 2.0 diesel won't care - 30. I allways say I'm sorry before pressing start 🙂 Souther Finland 🇫🇮

[@terryross1754]

Mine's the same. Press the button once and wait. Away she goes - no prob.

[@Bjervus]

I had a mondeo before, and it was the same. -37 when I was working in the mines in northern Sweden, cold start with nothing extra, just remember to glow 2-3 times and always start :)

[@surmapallo8179]

CRDi or CDi means "Common Rail Direct Injection" for anyone wondering what these letters mean in diesel cars.

[@evilii]

I used to have 2007 Mazda 6 2.0 turbo diesel with around 250 thousand kilometers on it, it didn't have that much of a struggle to start in cold mornings. Hailing from Finland.

[@Tonyx.yt.]

S is Sweden

[@laszlobauer5274]

The reason for hard starts usually is bad glow plugs or fuel left over from summer when they don't put additives in it to prevent it from freezing. You can buy additives from gas stations, diesel owners should really know how to prevent hard starts. I own an old VW 1.9 TDI, I can just put 5% gasoline in the diesel and it starts first time even in -20. One time we went skiing in France and parked the buses for the week, diesel crystallized in the tank. The drivers went on foot to the gas station a day before departure and bought 2 boxes of additives for each bus because they sell those in 0.2 liter cans, put them all in to half a tank of diesel (it's 600 liters for a half tank) and shook the bus like crazy so they would start. They took the batteries in the hotel for the week to charge and keep warm.

[@sasiuru]

13:20 Yes we have small cars with diesel, those are quite common due good torque from small diesel engines and therefore very good on fuel economy. Mini Cooper Diesel for example has 2l diesel, 9.5s 0-100km/h and combined (highway, city) consumption of 6.1l/100km. And that thing can go roughly 200km/h - not so slow... Highway rating is about 5.1l/100km (about 1.3gal/100km, 46 MPG) Older 1.6l diesel (240Nm, 109hp) goes lot less, combined 4.1 and 3.6 for city (litres/100km).

[@dirkspatz3692]

Even the MCC Smart (first two? generations) was sold as Diesel (999ccm inline 3 with 30kW) - My average consumption 3.4L /100km (70mpg). - mostly driven on the Autobahn and used often for long trips (Germany to southern France, Spain or Portugal)

[@teslatrooper85]

Or the Smart with 0.6l Diesel. Or the Sommer Diesel Motorcycle with 0.5l and phenomenal 10 HP.

[@sasiuru]

@@dirkspatz3692 Those less than 1000cc diesel engines will still run when there is just a smell of the diesel on tank... :D

[@thorstenkurafeiski1845]

Yes, you are correct about the Toyota Carina. The red line is way to high for being a diesel.

[@module79l28]

That and there never were any carburated diesel engines.

[@isdrakens]

S = Sweden. We normally use electric preheaters for the engine and car cabin which are connected to the electric grid. Then there is no problem starting. -40'C with a preheater is no problem to start

[@NLoGBB]

Yeah this, and, at least there used to be some workplaces that have parking lots where you could plug in the car.

[@toomasargel8503]

18:41 in Europa is winter specific diesel what froze .......-32 C / minus 25 F

[@thepappa5]

In Finland we have diesel that is usable at -38°C

[@ivankuzin8388]

@@thepappa5 Only up north though. Important when you have fueled down south, drive north and then can't start in the morning :D

[@Cloudberry84]

The swedish cold-weather-engine starter-kit is basically "Put engine on fire.

[@DoctorGibbon]

as someone from the cold north (not the coldest north, but pretty cold) i used to have a SAAB Aero SportCombi Turbo. essentially half my family has worked for SAAB, hope you will look into them some day

[@arikesimpelaar7362]

Yes, SAAB! My first car was a SAAB linear 2,2 diesel, loved that car. Would be interesting to see Iwrocker dive into this.

[@Salzbuckel]

Carburated cars cannot be Diesel, this russian car was a probably written off car from Japan. They import hem via Wladiwostok , they are right hand driven.

[@petersj77]

Don't think Japanese cars ever had MPH on the speedometer. They would have been KMhr. It's possible it's an import from the UK

[@MrTomasMaliauka]

Siberian side of Russia - all east side, drive mostly Japan cars. They import them directly from lefthand driving Japan. European side of Russia was driving mostly European cars, but it was before the war with Ukraine.

[@johanqq]

The sound the Toyota made is the hydraulic pump for the steer the hydraulic fluid is that cold 🥶🥶

[@SmoodGraphics59]

2:54 -15°c is nothing The lowest we have is -17°c. And the S on the registration plate stands for Sweden.

[@nikolajl9035]

-17 is not that much colder than -15 LMAO

[@mothbreeder641]

@@nikolajl9035 Must be a typo because we had -40 for a week straight last winter. In the northern part, southern part is basically like Germany, UK and such.

[@markwilkie3677]

I take it that's a mistake. We have had below -20°c in Scotland.

[@czechgop7631]

6:03 - 6:06 You can see it rise up a little bit, so maybe he's revving it to pump up the air ride suspension?

[@matikaevur6299]

hah, we had new years party in the village house, nearest neighbor ~2 km. temperature decided to drop below vodka freezing .. Stroh 80 stayed liquid enough to consume .. at morning we filled wood stove's plate with 2 layers of bricks, heated em up and used those wit h few woolen blankets to heat up our biggest diesel car's engine block (ford transit). few hours of fun (and vodka getting liquid again), got that van running, brought new essential supplies (you know what) and had nice extended weekend .. just started car for a while every few hours. :) things you do when you are young .. ;)

[@David-qs9yl]

These are my favorite type of videos from you, knowing you are a car guy as well, seeing all these different type of engines/cars you guys never got in the states is a really interesting persepective

[@Ranger-Ford]

Great stuff as always.

[@calibrax]

We love our diesels here in Europe. My BMW 435d has 313bhp, 465lb/ft of torque from just 1500rpm, and it does 0-60mph in under 5 seconds...yet can still easily get 50mpg fuel economy on a long run. Truly awesome performance.

[@iamthearmul]

Enjoyed the video. Where I live, in southern Finland I drive Volkswagen Caddy 2.0D. It does start in -25C but I always plug it in in winter if it is below 0.

[@ClockDev]

For people who don't live in such cold climates: "Plugging the car in the winter" means plugging in a heater in the engine bay ;-)

[@iamthearmul]

@@ClockDev Yes, Defa engine heater + Defa start battery charger + Defa termini interior heater if it's really cold. Since I have permanently installed battery charger it's also safe to run Webasto diesel powered heater for last 30mins of 2-3h heating cycle.

[@GeeShocker]

I have a '07 Megane 1.5DCi and over -20°C i don't mind at all, it just starts.

[@Poebbelmann]

Had a 2001 Clio with the same engine. Even at -22°C no problems.

[@MsRonens]

I have a Ford mondeo mk4 with a 2.0 diesel engine. Yesterday it rolled into 350k km. Owning it for 5 years now, still love it.

[@espekelu3460]

The first two cars were Swedish cars, and the fact that they were so frozen surprised me, because here in Norway most have pre-heaters on the engine and cabin. They light up by themselves perhaps an hour before you go out for a drive, and I myself have never experienced them not lighting up. So when you get out, both the engine and the cup are warm. And this pre-heating has existed for at least 20 years. Many people also use an electric preheater, then you insert the plug into the wall at home, especially if it's really cold, when you park, the car is also warm when you get out the next day. As a truck driver, I once experienced the car freezing up while I was driving. I started in one place where it was only -10, but during the afternoon it just got colder and colder. When the car stopped running it was -41, then the diesel in the tank had frozen so it didn't pass through the diesel filter anymore and the car just stopped. Fortunately, I got help fairly quickly, but it took me a night and a half day before I got the truck back on its feet.

[@davidsterry786]

My father was a “Black Cab’ driver back in the 80’s, he had a small parfin heater that he would put under the engine at night to keep it warm.

[@ChR0nos_7734]

Red BMW has M57 inline 6 3.0l diesel. It's one of the best sounding car diesel engines. M57 in considered one of the best diesel and overall BMW engines Every ICE car has a diesel version in Europe. Even Jaguars, Porsche Panamera's, Cayenne's. A lot of car brands in Europe sell more diesel cars then petrol ones. Asian cars are 50/50 when it comes to engine options. Petrol ones are almost always hybrids. VW Group cars is a prime example. VW Golf, Passat, Touareg, Škoda Octavia, Superb, Audi A4, A6, A8 are mostly diesel TDI engined cars. And petrol ones are either 1.4/1.5 T(F)SI and/or performance versions such as Octavia vRS, Golf GTI/R, RS4, RS6,.. And American also call BMW, Mercedes, Audi a luxury car brands. Meanwhile in Europe they use brand new Merc E-class and Audi A4/6 as a taxi

[@kronop8884]

My M57 530d started at -34C (-29F) with little to no drama last winter

[@Sakhmeov]

@@kronop8884 Yeah bruther. I had a 530xd, champagne grey station. Engine was the best thing about it. So good.

[@PropperNaughtyGeezer]

I have a parking heater. If you switch it on a quarter or half hour beforehand using the remote control, it starts as normal and the windows are all clear.

[@aut0maniak]

Praga v3s had interesting starting procedure... You got some old newspapers to the intake tube than catch it on fire than start 😂 Škoda favorit in original version had bimetal control of the carburettor so when it's been started in cold carburettor slowly claiming rpm... And it's calculated to when engine is in optimal temperature it will be after while off throttle climb rpm to 5000 so in order to avoid that you after some time open the second chamber of carburettor by flor it for a second so engine got back to idle easy. Nice mechanical solution of automatic choke ❤

[@sirsancti5504]

That Volvo in -30's made me as anxious as when my team is around the opponent's nets. When it ran, it almost felt as a goal scored!

[@Raven777777777777777]

Around here in Central Europe as far as i know our record is -42 celsius. Standard temperature in winter is around -10 C but we had -26 C couple of times in my lifetime and sometimes you got to do some convincing on cars and tractors to start them. If you want to hear good diesel engine sound look for Zetor 50 Super cold start. It's 4 cylinder 4 litre engine made from 1960 to 1968. Trick for starting that tractor in cold is to fill radiator with hot water before starting as most of these machines are old and not ready for anti-freeze coolant so obviously you have to empty radiator and engine block before letting it cool down, it has 2 drain valves for that exact purpose.

[@JachuJustyDriver]

Meanwhile, I used to work with Mercedes Axor 1840 (a semi truck) in my previous workplace. It was around 20 years old, it had only 750k km on the clock and it refused to turn on the glow plugs if it was above -5*C. It started right away, even after 12h or more of standing. It was driven internationally when new, but after some time it was only designated for local work.

[@Antti_Iltanen]

I used to have a '07 Ford Mondeo 2L TDCI when we lived in Lapland, north of arctic circle. If it was a cold night (coldest was -43°c) i took the battery in to our kitchen and plug itto a battery charger. I'd then wake up at 04.30 and go put my fiancées hair dryer blowing on the aide of ghe engine for an hour 😂 Then (hopefully) with a fully charged, warm battery and somewhat loosened oil and fluids I'd usually get it to start. A few times I needed a booster and once had to call work that I'm not coming 😅 It had an auxiliary heater which would've solved the problem, or at least help, but it didn't work as the water pump on it had broken. 😅 Once I got the car running, I'd immediately turn it on as it would help heat up the coolant and the cars own water pump would circulate it. Without using that and covering the radiator woth cardboard in winter, the car wouldn't reach operating temp during my 1h commute 😂

[@Oyvind88]

Yes part 2, so fun to watch😀👏

[@JoriDiculous]

1st clip is pretty much how to start my tractor when it drops to -20c and below. You have to drag it on the starter while engine is starting to run or it it dies immediately, just like the Audi did. Of course i have an engine heater you plug into a regular wall socket, but it need to be on at least 30 - 60 minutes. Winter is one heck of Battery killer!

[@bootman23uk]

I am from the UK. I drive a 10 year old Ford Fiesta 1.6 TDCI (Diesel) with manual transmission. It does 60 MPG on a long run. Apart from being noisy on start up handles brilliantly. Starts first time every time even on a cold morning. Until recently many smaller cars were available with diesel engines but sadly sales of new petrol and diesel cars will not be sold after 2033!

[@theshivuus1826]

6:09 German car from company who's refundeed by that bad guy with little moustache, and that gesture xDDDD

[@Mycymy]

We had a lot of diesels because back in times they were considered eco and EU pushed them. Then EU changed mind and now calling diesels the worst type of cars and banning them from entering towns

[@herrkulor3771]

I had a 2009 Mazda that didn't start at 24°C because the diesel filter was frozen shut. You can buy filter heaters or coarser filters. After that experience I started tanking the expensive "ultimate" in the winter.

[@NightSkull119]

Greetings from Latvia (European Country). This video just poped up on my Recommendation list. I love your reactiona. Would like to see More videos about Snow (cold starts, some icy roads, random cars helping each other and so on).

[@lloydmorganmoore7810]

I used to have a Mini Cooper SD with the 2.0 diesel twin scroll turbo, it was brilliant fun! 0-60 wasn't amazing at 7.4 secs but the way it picked up speed quickly due to the torque from the diesel was great for the size of the car.

[@M4xXxIkInG]

Man im completly with you at 6:24 :D that just like i feel :D

[@19jacobob93]

Same here! Maximum cringe revving it so cold, so soon!

[@tonys1636]

-30C in Siberia is a warm winter day when can and often does drop to -50C. Coldest I've experienced in UK, the SE, was -18 C overnight, may have been colder as had to wipe the frost off the thermometer to read it. The Morris Minor's engine had been covered with a blanket and an oil heater under the sump, one designed for such use, flame enclosed behind wire mesh as in a Davey miners lamp, it was started on the starting handle as the battery had dropped to 11v overnight, only took two revolutions of the handle to run.

[@toomasargel8503]

03:36 my 1,0 liter enigne with 3 cylinder is no turbo and petrol 53 kW/ 72 hp / 108 Nm / 92 lbs - feet torque and start in minus 15 C / + % 5 F at first second. Bttery / accu is only 71 Ah / 680 A EN.

[@dirk2349]

I drove an Audi A6 turbodiesel for years. I only had the problems shown here when several glow plugs were broken. But that was exactly as shown here ;). I hadn't noticed it at home before a skiing vacation at “only” -10 degrees Celsius.

[@ottoolsen9560]

Finland you need to change your glowplugs - 10 is no problem for diesels -20 and below often are

[@black47180]

I can't help myself when I see your videos ...I have to se it ... your thumbnails and the content is actually 👌 ❤

[@gtvgranberg]

Red bmw is swedish, a 2008 bmw 335D, its in trafic. 281hp, 440kg payload, total max weight 2100kg, and a 1800kg braked trailer weight! 1800kg is 3968lbs! Thats why it is so wierd when a american ask "can i tow my jetski with my car" and everyone is like "i wouldnt do that", "you need a truck to tow!"

[@GoldenCroc]

Yeah, that always make me laugh. Close second is: "can I take my F150 on a gravel road, or do I need a monster truck" answered by "I wouldnt risk it"

[@gtvgranberg]

@@GoldenCroc i go where my 240 goes... Hahaha

[@GoldenCroc]

@@gtvgranberg I have towed a 6000lbs boat with a Dacia Sandero... Americans eyes would pop out of their sockets if they saw that. A lot of them would think you would need a genuine "18 wheeler" semi truck to do it...

[@jur4x]

@@GoldenCroc A lot of people from ex-USSR countries pop their eyes when they see western europeans use "luxury vehicles" to tow stuff. Like when I posted a picture of my British bos's brand new Range Rover Autobiography with a mini excavator on a trailer. Comments were wild. For some russians it was wild somebody owning a vehicle like that would use it like that. In the Baltics that was like that in the early 2000's, but now people are much more European in that regard. Though, when it comes to Americans it's not perceived luxury, but vehicle size that they are weirded out. "5-series towing a trailer with a 3-series on it? No Way, bro, you need an F150 for that!". At my work we regularly tow 3-ton trailers with Fiat Ducato that is front wheel drive and only has 2.3L (2287cc) engine.

[@GoldenCroc]

@@jur4x Yes, nothing strange about it at all. Not doing it with "luxury" vehicles either, it can handle it just fine. So I guess thats an inverse. Yes, size is the thing for them. Marketing for ever more huge vehicles have got a lot of Americans in an iron grip, it seems.... America really is the nr 1 in the world when it comes it being just the marketing to give large parts of the population new ideas... kind of sad, but I guess unavoidable with all the money thats being spent on it.

[@AndorRadnai]

There is a video of a (I think) straight piped Volvo V70 with the five cylinder TDI engine starting in far below freezing temperatures and it’s glorious. It takes a fair few tries to start it, but when it does it confirms why I love that engine. Quite probably one of the best diesel engine sounds in existence. ^^

[@countk1]

My job is all about cold starts when doing vehicle tests (we do climatic tests on all sorts of stuff). We go as deep as -60°C (-76°F) but for engines the lowest temperature we test is generally -35°C as arctic diesel is guaranteed to not parafinate then. Below you need block heaters, more additives, petroleum or jetfuel. Most trouble for cold diesel starts is parafine (wrong fuel), weak battery, fuel filter needs a change (parrafine clogs up there), clogged diesel return line, weak starter motor and finally people that don't know what they're doing. First thing that needs to be working is glow plugs of course. But it is and always will be a small power plant left on it's own to survive the night naked without any halp from others... sniff.... I once had to put my Volvo V70 D5 in that climate chamber because the maintenance company needed a -60°C run and I was in the way of closing the doors with no way of backing up at that time (4 70 ton forklifts in the way). So I only could drive into the chamber in order to close the doors. After about an hour at -60°C, my car just started up like normal but on my way home, the AC gave up (frozen contact that made the friction plate burn up) and after that my power steering (frozen filter). Not fun. In Romania, summers are hotter, winters are colder then where I live (Belgium). Hence why they have AC's (in comparison to the rest of Europe).

[@BonusQuack]

Not only there are diesel Minis but they also made Mini Cooper SD with 2.0 liter diesel engine.

[@dirklatham1045]

I had both the Audi 2.5 TDI Quattro and much later the Touareg 3.0 TDI. Great cars.

[@AScareDK]

I agree! Don't rev up cold - and in this case deep frozen - engines! Goes for both gas and diesel engines, but diesels take longer time to heat up

[@santarter]

Diesel memoris of times a decade+ ago, when it used to be cold in N-Baltics. VW Bora Variant 1.9 96azs TDi used to start up like soviet yellow tractor K700. Really enjoyed those -25 and lower startup soundtracks .. It did have a catless 2.5" stainless exhaust to get the soundtrack but cold weather really amped it to another level. If not mistaken, it always fired up, even in -30C

[@Rafixx5]

In Poland we have no problems with starting at -20 degrees Celsius with winter fuel. my Ford Focus diesel started first on winter fuel with 3 burnt glow plugs

[@adammoorby99]

11:00 goes to show a Volvo will still start no matter how cold it is and after it being on fire 😂😂

[@colla555]

Diesel engines in cars have gotten rather rare these days. (they are there in the existing car stock, but new vehicle sales with them went down significantly in favor of petrol cars and some EVs.)

[@stevemcgowen]

Yeah, here in Czech Republic only something like 25% of cars are diesels and that’s the highest in the EU.

[@fnaaijkens69]

for now. if the market is allowed to function, that is, not communistic bureaucrats deciding everything for us, but we get to choose... let's see how that goes...

[@stevemcgowen]

@@fnaaijkens69 You can always move East. In Ruzzia it's allowed to cut off the catalytic converters and remove emissions systems. In civilization we like air we can breathe.

[@espekelu3460]

Something you may not know is that most of the Nordic countries such as Finland, Sweden and Norway have access to winter diesel, where kerosene has been added so that it can better withstand the winter temperatures here in the North. Therefore, I think those cars in Bulgaria had put kerosene in the tank.

[@Excess8]

Had a full week of -38 to -40 celsius last winter in northern Sweden, Volvo v60 Diesel a straight 5 cyl 215 hp, starter engine felt a bit slugish but no real issue with getting it started in a couple of sec. Still drove to work every day, steering and dampening felt really stiff first few minutes but worked after a couple of minutes of it running.

[@martinwebb1681]

Mini Diesels have been available since 2003. They were made available across the whole mini range within a few years.

[@MrLekatt]

To avoid the problem with 'wax' forming in the fuel lines we use so called 'winter diesel' that is part kerosene part diesel. Also many cars are actually fitted from factory with fuel heaters of some sort. My Citroëns had a water heated aluminium heater fitted on the side of the cylinder head. I could use that car below minus 45 as a taxi for tourists in the northern mountainous part of Sweden. Great car for winter driving 😎

[@esaedvik]

-25F gets me into the "Why am I living in a country where the wind hurts my face" mood too. Prius seems to like it though. I've usually just had Saabs as winter cars, but down to a single car. Pretty bulletproof.

[@TonerLow]

I've had two friends with Audi Allroads that burnt to the ground in the middle of the night. One was parked on a public street and the other was out in the woods so they weren't plugged in for block heat or anything. No idea why, but in both cases the fires originated from the dash around the gauge clusters.

[@lkohtala]

In Finland and probably other cold countries have different kind of diesel in the pumping stations in the winter. Diesel gets thick in cold temperatures so they add some stuff to it, so it should be good to -35C or lower.

[@markwilkie3677]

Cold start on my 3l petrol annoys the neighbours.

[@neutchain7838]

I was hauling cargo all around Europe and the some parts of Russia about 15 years ago. In a winter morning near St. Petersburg I was waiting to be unloaded at an industrial park and saw 3 guys literally breaking up the oil with a crank rod in an old KrAZ. They were at it for about an hour at least. One of them resting and two of them working the crank. The temps were around -30C.

[@sushi777300]

You should do a reaction video to all license plates in Europe. They're not as nice as the US states but could still be fun

[@chrisperyagh]

I had a Y reg (2001) Volvo V70 2.5 diesel estate - that car sounded like a tractor and gave off loads of black smoke when floored. I sold it after its 2nd cylinder head replacement as the casting had gone porous causing a leak between the glow plug and injector port on one of the cylinders which made cold starting a nightmare. I replaced it with a 2006 Honda Accord 2.2 i-CDTi tourer which has a far more refined and clean burning diesel engine and the exhaust smoke from it smells like a steam engine.

[@darek4488]

For some reason my M67D40 always starts easy in the cold, even when it was left frozen for a week or more. The Common Rail pump in these engines is so strong that it can run the engine even with the fuel pump in the tank fully dead. I also find V8 engines generally easier to start on a slightly discharged battery, because of how many combustion strokes there are per revolution.

[@christophedejonge918]

That volvo sounded like my fathers VW (diesel ofc), trying to start his engine in the winter months. Letting it warm up before his daily commute to the Hague.

[@Richman0815]

The Carina @7:17 , I've newer heard of it before, has a Petrol engine. Btw: No way a 90' diesel could rap 6000rpm. 😆 In Sweden I have seen a lot of power connectors in square boxes in front of the houses to power the car while cold starts. Makes a lot of sense in this cold Nordic conditions

[@Sjanzo]

Mercedes IDI can

[@JH-ml5cp]

The biggest diesel. Audi Q7 V12 TDI 500hp 1000N torque

[@AlexLR]

Nope. Container ships have engines bigger than a 4 bed house making 10000hp+.

[@lapriseethernet8742]

​@@AlexLRbiggest legal diesel car we are not talking about boats

[@Gnitset]

I had an 2015 Audi A3 2.0 TDI. Never had an issue, ever, with cold starts behaving like this. It just started. Maybe a second longer than summer. Every winter we had at least a week with temps at -25C (Sweden).

[@hackerish]

I have a 3.0 inline 4 diesel Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. I've never had any issues with starting the car in even -35c weather. The trick is to prepare the car for winter. Make sura battery is good. Change/clean fuel filter. Only buy good winterised fuel that can take the temperature. I buy fuel that can go down to -40c and if it colder than that then i will just stay home anyway.

[@sebastianmarcu4368]

5:50 I totally agree with you, man. I always start up my engine, let it idle for about 1min and then drive it gently at least 10mins in summer time/15mins winter. And I have two petrol cars now. My fiancee has a VW Golf 5 1.9 TDI and after starting up the engine she also waits 1min and then it drives it gently 15mins summer/20mins winter. It warms up slooow compared to a petrol. On a petrol engine you get 90°C coolant temperature in about 5mins summer/10mins winter and 90°C OIL temperature (the most important) in about 5 more minutes (so 10mins summer/15mins winter on a cold start). Diesel is on average 5mins slower to warm up then petrol. I live in Brașov, România, we always have our fair share of -15/-20°C mornings in January-February and I’ve had many Diesel vehicles. If your glow plugs are all working, if your battery is even 5-7-10 years old but the engine is in good condition (high compression), if your starter is good, you turn on the ignition, wait 7 seconds, turn it back off, then back on for 7 seconds, and then you try to start the engine, it should start right away with no smoke and no worries. 😁 I’ve had a VW Golf 7 1.6 TDI and that engine was so smart built that if I put the ignition on, waited 7-10 seconds and then turn, the engine would start right away at -20°C without the need to circle the plugs more. What I find so interesting about Diesels is that if you cold start a Diesel at +30-20-10-0°C the engine just starts at 1000RPM and in 2-3 seconds it idles at 750RPM. If you start the same engine at -5°C it starts at 1100-1200RPM and in 2-3 seconds idles again at 750RPM. If you start the same Diesel at -20°C it starts up at 1500RPM like it’s a petrol engine in summer (that’s a veeeery high idle on a Diesel) and it slowly goes down to 750RPM in about 20-30 seconds like a petrol. It is so weird that it does that. I think it can’t sustain a low RPM and most likely does that very controlled at 1500RPM with a very high oil pressure to keep the engine safe at those temperatures. If you would press the accelerator pedal to rev it to 1500RPM I think it would’ve been much worse than the ECU keeping the engine that high up. I’ve noticed that every Diesel that’s been started in very cold temperatures for a month even with the engine in mint condition, consumes some oil, I think that the oil pump does a great job with very high pressure on cold that it even pumps a bit too much oil and some of it gets burned. At least on well mantained VWs. I’ve had a relative that no matter what I tried to teach him, he every single day of 2 years of VW Golf 5 1.9 TDI ownership he started the engine and at that exact same second the clutch was half way engaged in the first gear and the gas pedal was half way pressed. And he had before only petrol and LPG cars, he genuinely thought that “glow plugs are some sort of a conspiration that doesn’t exist” and turned the engine without waiting at least 1sec. Even one very cold winter day at -21° or -22°C he started the engine without using the glow plugs, it started extremely hard and he was pressing the gas pedal non-stop thinking that it will help the engine start like on a very old carburated engine, and he continued to do that even after the engine started so he reved up the engine to 4000-5000RPM (limiter) many times until he’s wife got up so he “warmed up the engine”. He hated that the climate wasn’t able to warm up the interior until 10-15mins of driving (normal for a Diesel, especially old ones..) so he always drove that car (and every car he ever had) as hard as possible on cold for the engine to warm up faster and the climate to bring warm air inside. In summer time he drives so down on revs to save fuel, but in winter time all the time redline to warm up the engine faster. And he had 2 possible routes to go downtown every morning. One with city stops and red lights about 5km, and one over a very high hill with only one red light, about 3-4km. You can guess which route he always uses. And there comes the obvious part. One winter I begged him to let me start that poor Golf TDI. He only had that car for about 2 months and I was still trying to show him that it can start very easy on cold. Of course I used the glow plugs and it started right away, but then he put me to turn of the engine because his wife was not ready yet. To save fuel. Then he started the engine without using the glow plugs and of course the car started right away because the combustion chamber was already warmed up enough and then he started to talk about the conspiracy and told me that there’s no need to believe there are real glow plugs that do exist in engines. Omg. Yes, he blowed up 3 engines, 2 turbos, destroyed 2 head gaskets and of course that’s because cars (especially Diesels) are not reliable at all. It’s not his fault, of course. Meanwhile, my fiancee had her 1.9 TDI Golf 5 for 6 years, no engines or turbos ever blown. The car runs just fine, but it’s very old and high milage and some things always break on it. Going to sell it in 2025. But the guy, the one with the blown engines. He blowed one engine after he did a stage one ECU tuning and drove it real hard on cold right after the tune was done, the next morning the turbo was done and after repairing it the next week the whole engine blew. The second one after the rebuild without any brake-in and with the oil only changed one time at 30.000km (he always does that because the manufacturer says that in EU, of course…), and on the first long trip with that car, the engine blew 5km before he arrived back home from the trip, then he replaiced the engine with a second hand one but kept his repaired turbo from the old one and when he got to about 27.000km without changing the oil, the turbo blew again. Then he changed the turbo with a poor maintained second hand one and sold the car. He showed the potential owner how good the engine runs by driving it very hard ond cold. The guy, 18yo searching for his first car was very impressed and knew nothing about cars so he bought it and drove it exactly like that. 3 months later with the oil not changed for about 40.000km, after more abuse, the third engine blew. 🥰 Of course it was because cars are not reliable. Not at all.

[@goodiezgrigis]

I still miss my Almera 2.2TD and cold winter mornings. That tractor fired up with a single glow preheat like nothing up to -20°C.

[@snafufubar]

In Canada, my old 75 Firebird was always parked last as it always started. It was then if necessary used to start my parents cars.

[@mat.borowski89]

I had a few Diesel cars, now I also own 2 vehicles with Diesel engines and I never have a problem with starting the engine, even at -27 C. I remember when I wasn’t driving my Mondeo 2.0 TDCi (Diesel) from 2012 for over a week in January due to Covid-19. I tried to start the engine at -20 C and it stated at the first, short time. If the car is well maintained, there’s almost no difference between Diesel and Petrol in the Wintertime. Of course Diesel will warming up longer time, but still I prefer to drive a Diesel cars, the engine sound makes me calm 😄 I’m driving now Opel Astra IV SportsTourer with 1.7 Isuzu engine from 2011 and Hyundai Matrix 1.5 CRDi from 2009 (I’m rather sure you haven’t heard about Matrix😂). Greetings from Poland! 🇵🇱 I like your videos so I’m waiting for next episodes 🙂

[@biljancanin]

Well, what i would do is not trying to turn on the car after heating it up hust once. I would heat the coilovers a few times and then try to start. Well, if it's using a key to start it instead of a push to start...

[@tomt5745]

had a BMW 320 Diesel. it started in -30 C every time. gave out a bit of black smoke some times but always started. and it had over 180.000 miles under the hood.

[@Futur_Chov]

I know it's not your type but my god BMW, I wish you react more of this brand 😌

[@owbeer]

for my first job i drove a 90's ford transit 2.5 D ,when i started it on cold mornings all my neighbours would wake up lol.

[@videosforeveryone66]

Romania has RO license plate and that Mini car is registered TM (Timiș county) that's the western county in the western part of the country. I think the record cold temps there might have gotten to as low as -20 in some years but I think now they don't get less than -15 Celsius. I guess it's up to negative 10 but that's in the middle of the winter, usually between mid January to February. In our country, the warmer parts are in the south (Oltenia region, Muntenia - including the capital, Dobruja Region and the seaside part of the Black Sea) and in the west of the country (Timiș, Arad, Bihor counties - especially closer to the Hungarian border). In the coldest parts of the country it gets maybe up to -30 degrees so yes, it's cold, that's how much the thermometer shows, the feeling can be as low as -50. And yes we have cold to very cold winters in Romania but it depends on the region. We get a lot of cold fronts from Russia, which affects a large part of the continent, bringing cold weather, at the weather forecast they sometimes say that "we will see an intensifying cold front from Siberia that will affect most of the country for the coming 2 weeks". These cold fronts got so far in some years that parts of Croatia (less on the south) got freezing cold temperatures and even got as close to Italy and in the south Greece had mostly the same situation. Other times, we can get cold from the northern countries but it's much more rare.

[@jcarvalho1500]

Ford Focus MK1 diesel TDDI every winter with temperatures down to -10⁰. Starts right away everytime.

[@Gazer75]

All these starts are a good example of why anyone that actually care about their car use electric block or coolant heater package in winter. These come with a tiny 12V battery charger and a timer. Often also a cabin heater. All my cars have started in 1-2 seconds even below -20C.

[@SirVili-s8c]

Just fooling around. All newer cars (2010->) have a fuel heater with timing so that the machine is warm from the morning when you leave. No problems and the interior is already warm.

[@toomasargel8503]

Yes that winter diesel is ca 6 % higher price then summer diesel ( 6,10 USD /gal vs. 6,48 USD/gallon ) but summer minimum is -5 C but winter diesel minus 32 C