Originally Posted By: StevieC
Originally Posted By: lexus114
Hey Stevie,can you imagine being an ice road trucker?? and having to pay for a synthetic oil change in one of those babies??
Yeah no kidding. I have a story for you... I was in Alaska just before spring-time for something work related and I rented a car to do some sight seeing while I was there because I figured I would never get the chance to go to Alaska again for free.
They didn't have the model that I reserved but gave me a brand new Mitsubishi lancer that they had just gotten in the day earlier. It had 14KM on it!
Anyways... I got in it, unplugged it in the lot and started it up and drove off. I got to my destination and I parked the car for the night... I figured they plugged them in to have instant heat for their customers... Not knowing that the 1 plug supplies power to a battery blanket and the block heater. Also I was tired after 13.5 hours of flying and catching a connector flight.
It was super cold, something like -55oC that day, I go out the next morning put my junk in the trunk, get in the car and the turn the key and I get nothing, nodda, no ticking, no cranking, no nothing...
I call the rental place and they tell me they will send a tow truck and replace the car. So this happens, and I get a new car... I get a call that afternoon that the reason why the car wouldn't start was because the battery and engine were frozen solid and that I have to plug in the car they just gave me in order to keep it from freezing.
I said, well why didn't someone tell me, You can see that I'm not from Alaska. I had a big fight with them and they were trying to charge me for the repairs to the cars engine which blew the frost plugs etc.
It was a nasty situation, but I honestly was so cold when I got out of the car I wasn't thinking about plugging it in... Nor was I informed at the time of pickup.
I battled Enterprise on it for 2 days and I ended up calling their head office in the US and finally got out of the cost of repairs.
Whoa!! Frozen solid huh?? I bet you were like......