Dumb question about cold weather and transmissions

[streamr]

I park my Weekender outside and at the bottom of our long and quite steep driveway. Temperatures have been in the minus zeros. Should I be doing any extra warming up before I put it in gear to head up that cold, slippery hill? Our last place had a long steep driveway, but it was downhill so I never thought about it.
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'03 MV

[dixoncj]

I'm no pro, but it surely can't hurt to give it some warmup time. Old seals can become more brittle in extreme cold and the fluid will be a bit more viscous which can make for harder shifts.

[Abscate]

Something like a 5 minute warmup in the deep freeze conditions makes sense to me. I do this on my manual transmission cars.

On drive off, drive it like Miss Daisy for the first 5 minutes too.
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