It all depends what you have... There's no way I'm leaving that in my car for the winter.

[ October 23, 2003, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: Nomex ]

 

only cause yer a ***

 

I've never had problems with speakers in the winter, but my previous Alpine deck used to have issues when it was really cold out. If I tried to eject a CD, the mechanisim would often slip or get stuck. Once it warmed up, it seemed to be okay.

I usually pull out most of my system in the winter. I have a pair of nice coaxials I leave in the front doors, and reinstall my stock deck. The wiring and all stays intact (insulated up of course), and I simply throw back in the amps etc when spring comes along.

I have debated putting my kick panels in, but it seems much too close to the winter now, and I'm more worried about getting snow etc on them than I am about the cold temperature.

I guess the bottom line is that most car audio equipment is designed to operate in the 0-35 degree celsius range. Once it drops down to like -30 or -40 degrees, you are really operating the gear outside of it's design limits. It may work fine, but I'm sure it takes a little bit of a toll over time.

This year I'm gonna throw an old JL 10W0 into a ported box, and run it with my old soundstream lil'wonder. It should tide me over for the winter. Come spring, it's time to rock and roll [img]smile.gif[/img]

 

Subs can take the abuse at cold temps, because they start to warm up right away anyways. For mids and tweets i might not push them right to the limits, but you can run them. My amps tend to get quite frosty in the winter. I'm not sure if this is bad, but when I wash it in the winter and leave it inside for the night I crack the windows and trunk so the amps and processors can warm up and moisture can evaporate.

Anyone else had a problem with this?

 

You'd better take your subs out too.. You wouldn't want the subs falling out onto the cold floor

 

For the winter, I like to follow these simple common guidelines:

Don't blare it right away -- give time for the glass to heat up (i've seen too many shattered rear windows)

Take your faceplate with you. If you have a LCD Display Faceplate, if you look at it, it gets blurry when it is cold. Keeping it in the house will keep it toasty so that you can see it without a problem.

All decks have an operating temperature, I've never had a problem, just with condensation on CDs; so always eject the CD before you leave the car, just in-case.

Personally, I can't listen to bass that early until there is some sort of caffeine going to my brain, so I go out and start my car, then go and make some tea or coffee. After the 10 miuntes that it takes to do that all my car is heated up, the windows are warmed up, and the CDs are too.

Just my 0.02 CDN

 

Wade told me my amps wouldn't clip In the winter if i let them cool off and sprtiz water all over em from a windex bottle.

 

yeah, that's what we call ghetto Crygenic cooling.

Break out the windex!

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A friend of mine has a pair of 10's that he beats the living hell out of. all last winter, they could be covered in an inch of ice and he'd just crank it up without even warming up anything.no harm done yet. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]