:sigh: Great googley moogley :doh:

 

watever, i guess I can wait for the car to warm up. I would suggest automakers to have heavy duty heaters.

 

Do you know how these heaters work? Do you even know the first thing about cars? 99.9% of cars on the road have heaters that are heated up by engine coolant (antifreeze), that in turn is heated by the engine, so until the engine reaches normal operating temperatures you will have no heat.

The only cars that have separate heating units, to my knowledge, are some diesel trucks, some old air cooled vehicles (perhaps some old porsches?), and possibly some ultra luxury vehicles. As far as I know, even LS, A8, 7 series or S class do not have that.

 

Don't waste your time. You'd have as much success explaining quantum physics to a parrot.

 

Now I'm actually beginning to wonder, is there a single production car in US market that offers instant heat?

 

I wonder why they haven't thought about making one. It would be a good idea with below freezing temperatures.

Now I understand, since the engine is cold, it blows cold air. So if I put a blanket on the engine, would it heat up quicker?

 

ROFL, you crack me up!

 

I think he's been pulling our chain all along since he joined HAN, just to see what kind of reaction we give him. The cat has got to be out of the bag now. NO ONE can possibly be serious with that statement.

 

...quantum physics to a parrot

wow.

if you ARE being serious....

the blanket won't work with an engine. a blanket works with a person because we radiate heat and warm the blanket (trapping the heat). Since endotherms (read: warm-blooded critters) are always producing heat to maintain their core body temperature, they continue to do so. since the blanket at this point is more or less maintaining your body temperature, the heat you are producing can go toward warming your further. this is why you might wake up in the middle of the night to kick the blanket off (and then start the cycle over).

Since your skin needs to be warm, and a lot of your skin cells are making energy to produce heat, and the blanket is touching your skin, this works out pretty well. However, the top molecules of an engine don't need to be warm for the engine to work (and they don't produce heat. in fact, they don't do much of anything at all.). Also, most of the engines I am familiar with are made of metal, and metal tends to warm up and cool down much more slowly than flesh (because of its density.) So as your engine starts to run, it's going to take a while for the heat to creep up through the metal, and by the time it does the blanket won't make any difference because the engine is already warm (more or less), and has been running for quite some time.
At this point you should probably remove the blanket from your engine compartment, as it is about to be a fire hazard.

 

I would have made the same mistake that Troopa made. I know that the Civic Sedan has faky-LED looking tails. I would assume that the Accord did, too. whoops!