A Good overnight solar system and a bad start to the day to winter van camping in my built campervan in this arctic trip in Sweden. Freezing winter cold 25c overnight temperatures started freeze the engine coolant and I couldn’t get the engine going for hours. However I survived this ordeal and was able to avoid a disaster to get the engine running.

Turns out the glycol mix in my engine coolant was a lot more diluted than I had originally thought, so it’s freezing point was a lot higher than I thought. Whilst it did not freeze solid it started to ice up in the coolant lines, The slushy coolant was too much resistance for the webasto engine preheater to move so it kept shutting down.

After cold starting the engine in 25c, it sounded horrific so I shut it down in the process flatted the starter battery. ( whilst it might of been fine cold starting it I didn’t have the skill set a knowledge to be able to make that judgement so I thought it was a safe to shut it down )

After seven hours and mix of temperature increasing and pouring pure glycol down one of the coolant pipes into the engine preheater I finally got it to start. After the engine preheater had preheated and I had rewired the Victron battery to battery chargers to charge the starter battery in the engine started the day.

Check out my cold weather & winter van life upgrade videos to see what changes I made to the van for this trip.


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