Hi, Guest
01-26-2011, 05:12 AM
with the super cold weather and windchill we're having, its taking longer for my engine to get up to temp (upwards of 10 minutes of driving) and by that point I'm at school and parked.
I have a block heater, but the parking lot's power source is on a timer so it doesn't always coincide with when I go out to the car. Once the car is up to temp, if I turn the heat on too high it won't maintain engine temperature and the air actually starts to get cooler.
until car reaches operating temp, I don't turn the heat on too, in case someone was going to mention this as an idea to get the car to heat up faster.
the windchill we had went as low as -40 overnight here, yikes! (and I'm aware that windchill only affects how fast something will cool down, not the point at which it'll cool down to)
is there a cardboard-on-the-radiator equivalent for the focus?
I have a block heater, but the parking lot's power source is on a timer so it doesn't always coincide with when I go out to the car. Once the car is up to temp, if I turn the heat on too high it won't maintain engine temperature and the air actually starts to get cooler.
until car reaches operating temp, I don't turn the heat on too, in case someone was going to mention this as an idea to get the car to heat up faster.
the windchill we had went as low as -40 overnight here, yikes! (and I'm aware that windchill only affects how fast something will cool down, not the point at which it'll cool down to)
is there a cardboard-on-the-radiator equivalent for the focus?
2003 Focus ZX5 Racecar/Perma broke/Storage
2011 Volkswagen Jetta Daily Driver
2011 Volkswagen Jetta Daily Driver