cca 450 is it enough for this -30 weather?

[Mitsu3000gt]

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When your vehicle has a shitty heater core and the electric seats barely warm your ass.. you'll take any extra heat you can get early

Oh totally, I use mine too even though I don't technically need to. It's nice to have heat right away.

[Disoblige]

Run a 120 V office space heater from the trunk (seats folded down if not SUV/hatch) using a block heater plug-in

[killramos]

I know BMW offers a clean install built in coolant heater which while more complicated is kindof interesting.

[speedog]

My Dad used to put circulating coolant heaters in his vehicles, not sure if he does any more but those kept a flow of warmed coolant going through the engine. They worked much better than any ordinary block heaters.

[ExtraSlow]

Have seen tractors with gasoline powered coolant heaters. That's whatcha want.

[bjstare]

What you really want is to bulldoze your garage, put in floor heating and a lift in it when you rebuild.

[brucebanner]

Truck started up last night at the airport after sitting out in this deep freeze for the last week not plugged in. It wasn't thrilled about it but it fired right up.

No need to plug in

[killramos]

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Have seen tractors with gasoline powered coolant heaters. That's whatcha want.

I see what you did there

[Mitsu3000gt]

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What you really want is to bulldoze your garage, put in floor heating and a lift in it when you rebuild.

And a drain!

[KrisYYC]

So my car has been parked and plugged in since Tuesday evening. I have no reason to drive it today or even tomorrow. Would running it for a bit be worse for the battery than just leaving it? I have no need to drive anywhere but I'm tempted to fire it up.

[firebane]

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So my car has been parked and plugged in since Tuesday evening. I have no reason to drive it today or even tomorrow. Would running it for a bit be worse for the battery than just leaving it? I have no need to drive anywhere but I'm tempted to fire it up.

Just leave it.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Yeah the less cold starts you can do the better.

[ExtraSlow]

Running it for under 1 full hour does more harm than good for any vehicle in any temperatures.

[KrisYYC]

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Just leave it.

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Yeah the less cold starts you can do the better.

Roger that. Thanks.

[speedog]

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Running it for under 1 full hour does more harm than good for any vehicle in any temperatures.

Pfft say my current and past old high mileage GM's.

[killramos]

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Running it for under 1 full hour does more harm than good for any vehicle in any temperatures.

I would say drives over an hour are under 1% of my vehicle usage.

[ExtraSlow]

Me too.

[firebane]

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Pfft say my current and past old high mileage GM's.

Old trucks that can run on sludge and be ok

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

God dang 2013 Cummins with 152k won’t start this morning even with the booster on it, cranks fine, catchs for a second then dies. Meanwhile my 2006 Duramax with 301k starts up no issues without the booster. Should have known better than to trust this work truck unplugged overnight.

[bjstare]

Attached unheated garage was good enough for me. My car has sat since Monday, started up just fine this morning. Dash read -12.5C.