I looked like a big time fool, first cold day, stall, stall stall, can't see through the fog on the windows. Smell like car engine from the heater. I LOVE MY CAR!!!

This morning was so cold .... 7 degrees ! The days of driving to you with the roof down are gone ! :cry

I remember I could NEVER start my beetle on cold mornings ... So I bought a new one !

The Germans have this thing called a STANDHEIZUNG which keeps your motor cosy overnight. I think it uses the water cooling system to keep the temp up. Not much help to us airheads! Some of them actually put a funky little gas burner under their motors, but I'm not that game.

Luckily I live in balmy Queensland. Ha Ha!

good ol queensland:bounce

I'm in Sydney so right in between and my car was pretty unhappy this morning. It started fine- it just didn't want to move anywhere!

i wouldnt be going on about balmy queensland temperatures if i were you...

i know cherry hates being woken up to drive to work of a saturday morning in winter. i hate having to go to work of a saturday morning in winter so i know how she feels. im stalling every 5 minutes until about midday!

u do have a valid point there starbuggy......but we can always make them think we are better off ......yeah it can get to about 3 degrees here in the sticks where i live in the middle of winter....not cool

anthiron well I think it owuld be cool:thumb

ha ha ha....perhaps:P

ha ha, you guys are looking at the small picture....what people should do is move north in winter and south in the summer....car gets too cold in winter and too hot in summer, learn from the animals! Fly south for the summer and north for the winter. My car had a little bit of a splutter on start up this morning with choke out on full!

Volkswagenwerk designed the automatic choke on the solex carby to help You start the car immediately, and drive away immediately... none of this rev the guts out of the motor before You drive away.... it doesn't do the engine any good either.. sitting and revving... You are supposed to drive away on the auto choke....

it gets to below Zero on some Winter mornings here... & over night... not looking forward to it.. then not looking forward to 40+ degrees Next Summer either...

and I agree with moving North in the Winter & South in the Summer.... many retired people do just that... 6 months north & 6 months South....

Lee

Hmmm 6mths north and 6mths south the worst of all compromises (ducks for cover and lurks til this thread dies)

What's the difference between sitting and revving and driving and revving on a cold engine? Isn't it kind of accepted that you should allow the engine to run / warm up before taking off. Different story for modern engines.
I think the developers of the automatic choke would like to have come up with something that allowed us to drive off immediately. It would have sounded good in the sales brochure, but I dont know.....

I'm sure their hearts were in the right place. Hey Lee, when was an automatic choke introduced on a Volkswagen?

auto chokes are a great way of helping to wear out your engine prematurely. sheesh. just sit for a minute while it warms naturally (no reason to rev the crapola out of it), then drive it nicely for the first couple of minutes. be nice to your leedle dub...

Whats up with you lot, you don't know what cold is................ Try running a split camper over here when its snowing and the thing had twin carbs and no choke
never had to many probs over here in the winter just normal vw type stuff like no view outa the front screen
just drive em gentle till they get warm and everything will be fine.

Well done old Bean! That's put us Convicts in our place now hasn't it!

"When I was a boy, we had to push our 21 Window 15 Miles through the snow just to get to a service station".

Don't take me too seriously! Others have lived to regret it!

hehe i havent ever had cold start problems so i'm lucky.

if you read the users manual that comes with the car from the factory it says it is designed to be driven away straight away.

there is the argument that driving it straight away will warm it up quicker which reduces wear. The choke is there to compensate for icing in the carb in cold and/or humid weather. The choke should be adjusted so it more or less matches the weather so the mixture the engine receives during warmup is just richness to compensate for the icing.

chokes arent necessary if you have dual carbs because the manifolds are only inches from the heads. Its the damn stock manifold that suffers from icing problems.

Lee's right!

No choke, no pumpin the gas, just start and drive to the surf, no problems. Ahh queensland bootifull one day purfect the next. ah!!!!

Yeah, there may be a lot of rednecks up here,
but at least we've got that!

Surf's up Dude!

In the Winter my Baja never warms up.