Getting ready for winter

Chevyman, I was just thinking about that.  I have never dealt with weather that cold but have dealt with heat that is out of control.  Everyone thinks that it's hot in their area but I never see what some people call a real winter.  Down here in the South we see summers of 90+ with a hit index at about 104+ and humidity of 80% or more and winters that may hit the upper 60's.

So, as you can see I don't know much about how cold weather affects your system but have a lot of experience with systems over heating do to the hot weather

Oh yeah cold messes with the plastic cones and surrounds.  I have a nitro rc, and in the winter my plastic pieces get real brittle in the cold- not even the cold you get.  Have the car warm up and stereo on low. for at least 10-15 min.

Maxst is right.  Let the car warm up a bit before you blast it.  I tore a surround years ago in an old car because it was -30 out and didn't let the car warm up enough.

the thing to remember up here is to turn it down ( or preferably off ) before you leave the vehicle at night...most people up here have remote starters and dont realize that when they fire their vehicle up in the morning at -40C that the stereo is still playing at whatever volume level they left it at..... which will of course over time either destroy their speakers or else shred a bunch of little nylon gears in the cassette/CD mechanism....

it's mostly a case of using common sense...unless i'm taking a road trip, i rarely listen to discs at all from Nov thru Feb as it's not healthy for the CD player and i try to remember to shut the radio off before i exit the vehicle at night......