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Old 03-04-2017, 01:02 PM
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I hope all is well with you. Been super busy on my end and haven't had a chance to hang out as much. We are getting ready to move to ID and are planning two nights of stopping due to kids and pets. Anywho. What do you recommend to keep the Dodge warm at night? She is a grouchy morning person if not plugged in when its under 35*at night. We will be stopping in places where it is 20 or less at night, and I am a little concerned about trying to start her in those temps come morning time.
 
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Old 03-05-2017, 05:34 AM
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Are you stopping anywhere you could plug it in? Or where you could run a cord from a room to it?
 
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Old 03-05-2017, 08:24 AM
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good morning guys.
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do you have a generator?(anysize will work) you could get up in the morning fire the generator up and plug your truck in you only need a couple of hours to help that truck start
do you have a remote starter on your truck there should be a cold temp setting
 
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Old 03-06-2017, 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by gh0stman
Are you stopping anywhere you could plug it in? Or where you could run a cord from a room to it?
I am not sure if I will have access to any plugs. That is why I am a little nervous about it. I am thinking that I will just have to pack a couple extension cords in the truck and hope for the best.
 
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Originally Posted by chopforeman
good morning guys.
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do you have a generator?(anysize will work) you could get up in the morning fire the generator up and plug your truck in you only need a couple of hours to help that truck start
do you have a remote starter on your truck there should be a cold temp setting
No generator and no remote start.
 
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Old 03-07-2017, 07:08 PM
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change your oil and run a 0/40 100% syn
If you have good batteries cycle the key twice and fire her up
here in Canada that what we have to run for oil if we cant plug our trucks in
 
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Use to work at an airport and in winter when we would have a really cold snap I would run about 5 gallons Jet A with prist to a full tank of diesel. Never had any bad affects, but never really noticed a difference on start up. Did it for about 3 winters and that was 4 years ago. Still nothing broke or failed that I can point back to running Jet A.
 
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Originally Posted by chopforeman
change your oil and run a 0/40 100% syn
If you have good batteries cycle the key twice and fire her up
here in Canada that what we have to run for oil if we cant plug our trucks in

Thank you! I will keep that in mind for next winter as we are moving to North Idaho, so I will be experiencing a real winter for the first time. For now, it looks like we are lucking out and leaving under a warm spell this next week. Looks like I don't need to worry this time around.
 
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Originally Posted by Solo465CM
Use to work at an airport and in winter when we would have a really cold snap I would run about 5 gallons Jet A with prist to a full tank of diesel. Never had any bad affects, but never really noticed a difference on start up. Did it for about 3 winters and that was 4 years ago. Still nothing broke or failed that I can point back to running Jet A.

Where do you buy that at?
 




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