[puddleglum]

Okay, the comment about 5th gear threw me as the I4 only has a 4 speed and the V6 has the 5 speed. Anyway, I still think you will benefit from the mods I said above. There are guys on here that use a block heater up to 20C but I don't go that far. I haven't seen enough savings to justify the cost of electricity. Still, it is said 90% of engine wear comes during warm up so anything to help your engine warm up faster is going to make your engine last longer but that is hard to quantify. It is definetely colder than that here. I've already had frost on the windshield last week. Winters usually range from -10C to -30C. Sometimes we'll get a day or two of -35 to-40C and sometimes it can jump up above freezing for a few days as well. When it's really cold I block the entire grill and I run a oil pan heater and transmission heater along with the block heater. All our in town trips are short so warm up is very important.