Sorry but that's pure urban legend. My father at the time had Skoda and before that a Siren. Each year when he tried to transport grandparents 20km for Xmas ev

Sorry but that's pure urban legend. My father at the time had Skoda and before that a Siren. Each year when he tried to transport grandparents 20km for Xmas eve, when the temperature dropped it was half a day of tinkering with no guarantee of working. Meanwhile over last decade I pulled multiple 3k km+ vacation trips over the Europe in 13-15 years old cars. Worst thing that happened was single random "check engine" light that went away later. Communism was shit. I hope I won't ever see it again.