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You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.I can't believe it. That's just what I do here in Ohio, only I have the extension cord plugged into the porch light. When I get up I turn on the light and an hour later when I leave, all the snow is melted off and the car is nice and hot. No block heater though, but by the time the car starts to cool off down the road, the motor is warm.
Or down here with mine, rather. The block heater heats up the antifreeze that's in the block and is really quite easy to install. It heats the water which in turn heats the oil. Thick oil is really hard to pump around in an engine and my engine has 14 quarts of oil in it unlike cars which have around 4 or 5 quarts. It takes a bit to warm that oil. Before a diesel heats up, it is very low powered. I've actually made it out of my driveway and about 100 feet down the road before it just died. Now, that was fuel gelling but still... cold is cold.
Yeah, it got so cold in northern California this year I almost had to winterize my RV. I even had to wear a heavy jacket a couple of times.
Had a couple of mornings in the -20s here.
I was being sarcastic, but would anyone expect anything less. Lowest we got to this year was +27 and only for a few hours over night. I went to Anchorage, AK last January for work and was mesmerized that my water bottle froze in my pocket during a morning hike. Haha. It was 9 degrees outside, can't imagine -20's or -30's.
Yeah, yeah, yeah my dad told me that same story one time.
Try it, you will like it, unless you hate sunshine
