What to do when a cold engine is hard to start
Starting a car with a cold engine can be very difficult
sometimes and it can become a real obstacle for those who live
surrounded by extremely cold weathers. This way, for all those
who might experience this problem it is not only important to
learn how to overcome it but also why it happens in order to be
able to prevent it as much as possible as well.
Cold engines might experience problems at the time to start due
to different reasons. One of these reasons can be based on the
effect which cold has on liquids evaporation. When it is cold,
gasoline evaporates less and this cause it to be more difficult
to burn due to the fact that it is burnt when it is evaporated.
Another reason by which a cold engine might have problems to
start is caused by the fact that oil becomes much thicker in
cold than the way it is in hot. Oil, like any other liquid
changes its consistency when it is exposed to very low
temperatures as well as it changes back when it is in a very hot
weather, and this might cause oil to have problems at the time
of circulating in the car engine.
Besides the engine, car batteries might experience problems
while being in cold weathers as well and this could affect the
engine. Batteries function through chemical reactions which
loose agility while being cold and therefore, in such
circumstances, batteries don't function properly. When this
happens, the car energy becomes affected and this causes
problems for the engine start.
If these three problems happen together, starting an engine
might become a really hard task to achieve. In order to overcome
the lack of gasoline evaporation problem, you can spray ether
into the engine which would evaporate quickly and help the
engine start. Besides this, you can also to prevent having oil
too thick which wouldn't circulate properly by using thin
synthetic oils. You should also try to maintain the car isolated
from cold as much as possible, but by using the two last
mentioned methods you would experience much less problems at the
time of staring the car in cold weather.