My car is from GA - no difference in cold startup whether it's 90 or 10 degrees. No block heater either. Just lucky I guess. One thing I am worried about is salt. Did anyone see the huge piles of salt on the street corners and in th gutters here? I think they overdid it with the 5" of rock salt for the 2" of snow accumulation. Last time I brought a southern car up here it disintegrated in about 2 years. I have been and will be watching the nooks and crannies on the underbody like a hawk even though I don't drive in the snow. I mean it's just incredible how silly the DC works people use the road salt- one year I was here they ran out early and had no more for the last two great snows of the season. People up in NH are like 3"-4" forget about it.

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'02 BMW 325i
'85 300D 450k
'93 190E 2.6 170k(killed by tree)
'08 Ducati Hypermotard 1100S 6k
'06 Ducati S2R800 14k(sold)