LOL That's definitely cold but not all that bad for where you live. Hell, wait until January is here and the jet stream drags down the polar winds straight across your lake.
Now that's fuckin' cold.
I once changed my starter on the side the road (so that I could park on the curb and slide under the car) when it was about -10°. That fucking sucked. It was about that same temperature when I tore into a car to change the heater core - which meant pretty much stripping out the entire dash and laying on my back up under it to fit the junkyard heater core up in there.
Both of those fucking sucked. They sucked donkey balls. I do NOT recommend it. When doing the starter, I cut myself bad enough to need stitches and it didn't even fucking bleed until I warmed up.
I've done my share of cold weather auto repairs
It fucking sucks dick working on a car in the cold. That's why my garage was built before my house. Well, that was one of the reasons. It's also why my garage is heated. There's even a wood stove in the garage, but if you get that fired up it throws so much heat you'll end up opening a door.
Yeah wood fires work great for heating a garage
(post is archived)