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here in alaska we use block heaters as a must have. Cold oil doesnt recirculate very well, of course a chronicaly cold engine, with cold oil, is going to displ
by rolph 4y ago
here in alaska we use block heaters as a must have.
Cold oil doesnt recirculate very well, of course a chronicaly cold engine, with cold oil, is going to display excessive wear.
so, why "warmup" a vehicle?
two parts...
1] old model vehicles dont have digital engine control its electromechanical.
cold carburetors run out of tune, unless you have auto choke and idle tuning.
so the block needs to be warm for efficiency and normal function.
2] it gets cold in the cabin of a alaskan vehicle no matter what make/model, as in deep negatives and hoar frost all over. most humans dont do well in this, and have to warmup the cabin to function outside of hypothermia. this is afew levels beyond scraping frost of a window.
- barbazoo 4y agoI love how the examples are always Alaskan winters but you see people idling their car to warm up everywhere and often in moderate temperatures. For most, it's a comfort thing and not necessary.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIf you're even using a car at all, then you have already decided that comfort and convenience are necessary.
- barbazoo 4y agoLet's not make the perfect be the enemy of the good.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoI'm not sure how this is supposed to apply. I am asserting that the function of the car is to provide a comfortable environment, not merely to physically transport. Otherwise why does it even have a heater or an air conditioner? I don't think there is any valid argument for austerity on this tooic. I am saying it's perfectly valid to warm the car up simply because you want to because it's more comfortable and makes clearing the windows easier, because the only reason the car even exists is to be a tool to make your life easier. If that warm up time consumes some of the device's life, so what? Every minute of use consumes a minute of it's life. These few minutes of use are no different than any other few minutes of use.
- omginternets 4y agoAh yes, a two-hour commute to work is just a minor inconvenience. One should ride a bike in such circumstances.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoyes, obviously I meant exactly that
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- Turing_Machine 4y agoYep. And as noted before, up on the Slope they just run the vehicles 24/7 in the winter time.