Update: Honda engine block heater
#12
Re: Update: Honda engine block heater
Originally Posted by dwax
Are you supposed to leave the heater on all night? If so, then does anyone know the power this thing sucks?
#14
Re: Update: Honda engine block heater
Originally Posted by clayk
Can that same part be used on the 05 HCH?
Here is the page under the 2005 Civic Hybrid:
http://www.cheaphondaparts.com/shop/...Product_ID+120
#16
Re: Update: Honda engine block heater
Originally Posted by AZCivic
You'd plug the car in at night and the block heater could be on a thermostatic switch. This way you can plug the car in hot, like right after pulling in the garage and it will only charge the battery. Then once the coolant drops below, say, 100 degrees, it would kick in the heater too in order to maintain an effective coolant temp. You'd go out the next morning to a fully charged battery, reasonably warm engine and have full electrical assist and the high FE and low emissions that come with having a warm engine.
BTW, I can understand someone in Fairbanks Alaska wanting to do this, but in Phoenix of all places???
#17
Re: Update: Honda engine block heater
but, some of us are from "fairbanks alaska" temperatures. Although, I do agree with you on energy waste if you are heating all night, but, on a timer for a few hours, at our current temp of 20 degrees in tomahawk wisconsin, would help.
p.s. 20 degrees is a heat wave in a couple of months.
p.s. 20 degrees is a heat wave in a couple of months.
#18
Re: Update: Honda engine block heater
RIHCH: What dealership did you get that installed? I am also from RI and am waiting for my 06 HCH to arrive. Hopefully I can wait a month so I can get the tax credit.
#19
Re: Update: Honda engine block heater
Originally Posted by ElanC
BTW, I can understand someone in Fairbanks Alaska wanting to do this, but in Phoenix of all places???
But I care too much about keeping my gas mileage high to just let Mother Nature reduce me to a whimpering puppy, if I have a tool to defeat her...
#20
Re: Update: Honda engine block heater
Originally Posted by ElanC
Using electricity to keep a metal object at 100 degrees all night, in a 20 degree environment perhaps, sounds like a big waste of energy.
BTW, I can understand someone in Fairbanks Alaska wanting to do this, but in Phoenix of all places???
BTW, I can understand someone in Fairbanks Alaska wanting to do this, but in Phoenix of all places???
It costs about $40, and installs in under an hour.
Why not have one, regardless of location? You don't have to use it, after all- its just there.
Or for those concerned more about climate than money:
It should come down to what pumps out more GHG- the generator providing the energy for your heater, or your car running cold and with the catalytic running in open loop? However that balance swings is the objective answer.