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Originally Posted by cooolone2
Again, with -30* temps, I wouldn't be doing anything but sitting on the couch sipping some hot coco, lolz! And if you are in a temperate zone that has those temps common, a vehicle with an engine block heater would be on the list because any oil is going to be troublesome at those extremes. Just my $.02
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Most years we have -30C temperatures for quite a few days, often down to -30F and sometimes below that. This is normal winter weather, I’ve had multiple BMWs that have cold soaked all day in -30C weather while at work without a block heater and have started OK. There is no “official” block heater solution for modern BMW engines and some with compound engine blocks with magnesium such as the N52 would likely be damaged by trying to fit a block heater.
0wXX weight oils are normal around here, with no apparent engine life issues, going by the older European manufacturer cars on the road which are typically the manufacturers that specify 0wXX oils as the standard grade.