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Much much longer if you're running the heater from a dead cold.
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Speaking of which... I seem to recall a warning somewhere about 'no excessive idling' but no explanation. So in a range of stop-and-go traffic to patrol car at a checkpoint, does anyone know? It takes a loooong time to warm up on these bitter cold mornings (10-15 minutes and it's still well below the cold mark). How much is too much?
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Wow, the biggest thing us Aussies have to worry about going from summer to winter is changing from a short sleeve to a long sleeve shirt...
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my stock tire is near the end of it's life & it's an adventure everywhere I go. but ya OP, you need snow tires!!! Stock tire has no grip at all even on wet roads, on snow it's too exciting for ur own good. Btw is there any way for our heater to get up to temperature faster? It takes forever to get hot when I was already frozen soild. |
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Although it hasn't snowed in Vancouver, the temperature as been like that here as well and it got down to -8 Celsius about a week ago. As for warming up my car, it takes about 5-10min to warm up in the morning.
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You could secure a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator ……. till the engine warms up (don’t forget to take it out). Wear a “car coat” ( anyone remember those .. ??) and a pair of gloves ….. like we did back in the day. Y, I remember, back in the day (or night in this case), going out on cold winter nights, in my friends old pick-up truck, that the floor board was rotted away on ….. (yes, they used to be made out of wood and they would rot away). Now you talk about cold! Oh, why we out on cold winter nights .. ?? We were “pest hunting”, for our FFA project …… shooting pigeons in farmers barns, twisting their heads off, putting the heads Mason jars to take in for points. humfrz - have BB gun will travel |
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Oh it gets colder then that at times.
As Ultra stated the heater works as a rad so I let it run for 5 minutes or so without the heater on, then 2 or 3 with the heater on low and once the coolant is warm I turn it up to 2. Once the windshield starts to defrost the I give it another 2 or 3 minutes and off I go. This sounds like a pain in the ass but it is just the way things are so I am used to it taking 10 or 12 minutes to be drivable every cold day..
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Before I got a garage (uninsulated and unheated, but dry) I used to leave my car running with the defroster on full until the windshield was thawed. Now I just start it up, turn the seat heater on full whack, pull on my gloves and go. Yes, I know it's not good for the engine... but it's just a car. |
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Won't let me quote you again Sar!?
If the windows are not frosted too badly and I can actually see then even when that cold I just let the engine run long enough to drop out of high idle and off I go. The above procedure is just for when I need to heat things up because there is so much hard frost or ice I can't see and I want to soften it up enough to scrap easier. Unfortunately a garage is not, nor has ever been a luxury I have had. The Cali guys that don't want to drive because it may rain and they just washed their car two days ago would be appalled to see what gets done with that snow brush and scrapper.
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Not doing it on purpose this time...
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