SO I live in Nunavut, it doesn't get much colder than this place. I live in a town of 300 people where there are no roads out of town.

I purchased a jeep and will be shipping it up on the barge in the summer. This is the only way to get vehicles here. There are about 15KM of dirt roads around here but that's it. There are, however no trees and the land is pretty flat. Basically I will be driving offroad 100% of the time. I am pretty sure I can take the jeep wherever I want on the land as there is permafrost all year round.

So far I have:
3" lift
34" Micky Thompson Baja Tires
Rancho rear bumper
Smittybily front bumper
T-Max competition winch + synthetic rope
Remote Start

I will be adding some lighting as well.

My question is:

Because I live in the extreme north and temps get to -50 below on a regular basis in the winter is there ANYTHING at all I should do to prepare for this.

Most people here use 0W-30 oil, plug in their trucks all the time and that's it. Someone said I might be able to purchase a better heating coil to crank out more heat. Lots of trucks here lose most of their heat in the winter. Is there anything I can purchase that would help this?

My jeep is waiting for me at the dealer and I pick it up in June. I am just trying to think of everything I can to purchase before I ship the jeep to the north. When it gets here mall maintenance will have to be done by me. There are no dealers and only one heavy equipment mechanic so I am keeping my fingers crossed that I don't run into major problems.

 

contact Phillie , he lives at Kuujjuaq , it's at the extreme north of Quebec

https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/members/phillie-16820/

this winter mine survive well to temperature bellow -30 , the only thing is the manual tranny who is hard to shift when cold, maybe change the oil will help !

and the JK is awesome in snow

 

I bought the automatic transmission version for that very reason! I didn't want any shifting issues.

 

I think I would want an interior mounted on board air system. My experience with those crazy low temperatures is they will actually freeze the rubber on tires and you can get some flat spots until the rubber heats up. Also some of those wild temperature swings are going to wreak havoc with the TPMS and you'll need to have some sort of programmer to address that, considering that you'll already be low on your tire pressure from the bigger shoes.

 

I think one thing you DON'T have to worry about is the heater. Jeep Wranglers have always had nuclear powered fire throwers.

Block heater? I guess you've thought of that.

I'm fascinated by Jeeps in extreme conditions so I'm subscribing and hoping to learn more of your experiences

Update often!

 

All jeeps in Canada have block heaters as far as I know. I will keep you updated!

 

I currently have a 2000 GMC Jimmy here and I have had issues with several tires this winter losing air. I had three separate tires leak around the rim. These were older tires but I am hoping I don't run into this issue with the new Jeep.

What exactly do you mean when you say "interior mounted on board air system". Do you mean something that will help keep the tires warm or did you mean just something to make sure the heat keeps firing all winter long>?

 

Just mounted in the interior so it is pumping somewhat warm air into the tires. That gwump gwump gwump sound of a tire that has a flat spot frozen into it baffled me when in Alaska and I think if I lived there for any length of time, especially with a vehicle I would be airing up and down the tires I would want to remedy it before the tires heated up by rolling on them.

 

I would have to disagree totally on the JK's pumping out good heat. My major complaint about my Jeep is how long it takes to put out any heat at all. This winter i noticed i was low on coolant so i topped it up and it didn't help any. I found myself driving the two hour trip to the mountains with the heat on high the whole way. Next winter i'll cover the grill a bit to see if it helps speed up the heating process.
Thats one thing i would suggest is a grill cover.

 

Might want to look into a pull pal if you have no trees.