Cold weather (revisited)

[treed2 at wsu.edu (T. Reed)]

huh? AFAIK that was a real problem in cold weather due to moisture being
trapped around the cable and freezing?

Maybe my brain is making things up again..

-Toby

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Patrick Bureau wrote:

> AHA, it was funny reading especially the "freezing brake cable in cold
> weather" cudos for your originality.
>
>
> ATS - Patrick Bureau
>
>
> ->-----Original Message-----
> ->From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> ->[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of T. Reed
> ->Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 5:21 AM
> ->To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> ->Subject: Cold weather (revisited)
> ->
> ->
> ->Okay, so I'm currently working on buying a set of snow tires. Thanks to
> ->everyone who gave their input..
> ->
> ->Now, I looked at the weather forecast for the next 5 days and 'lo and
> ->behold, the predicted low on Friday is 5 degrees (fahrenheit!)
> ->
> ->I've never been in that cold of weather before so I'm a little bit
> ->in shock. In keeping with the list tradition of 'car fanaticsim first', is
> ->there anything I need to do to my Scirocco to keep it from exploding at
> ->that temperature?
> ->
> ->The only thing I can think of right away that could be a problem is the
> ->window washer tank, which is full of water (not special window juice
> ->w/antifreeze) but I can solve that with a trip to the store.
> ->
> ->I have about a 55/45 mix of antifreeze and water at the moment, and I'm
> ->running 10w30 dino oil.
> ->
> ->One of my e-brake cable sheathings is split, I think. I've never had it
> ->freeze up before, but then I've barely even driven the car in below
> ->freezing conditions before. Is this something I should try to fix
> ->(ie. replace the bad cable-- but don't you have to replace in pairs?) next
> ->time I'm in a place that I can work on my car? Or is the frozen e-brake
> ->thing not very common?
> ->
> ->If you're still reading, you caught me. This message was mostly a ploy to
> ->test out my list subscription at my new e-mail address. I just hate those
> ->"test, ignore" messages so I had to add *some* content. But I really did
> ->need to test, since I just set up procmail to do complicated sorting and
> ->I want to make sure I did it right. I hope you'll forgive me.
> ->
> ->-Toby
> ->