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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / General Car Topics / October 2005Oil pan stick-on engine heaters - provide any warm air through the vents?
Is a stick-on oil pad heater going to give me any HVAC heat, or will it just heat the oil? I am considering an engine heater, and have read that frost-plug types are the best. Easier-to-install Oil pan heaters (pads that stick on to the pan) will heat the oil, which is a good thing. But I'd like some heat too, for the interior. Or course the various types of coolant heaters will provide quicker heat. I have read about 100 different threads on engine heaters. I have lots of info so I don't need a broad view of the different types & reasons for using them. I just haven't found a thread that tells me if the oil pan heaters will provide HVAC heat. Personal experiences? FYI - I live in Minneapolis and temps dip down to -40, with the average in Jan & Feb being about -10. > Is a stick-on oil pad heater going to give me any HVAC heat, or will it > just heat the oil? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the pan) will heat the oil, which is a good thing. But I'd like some > heat too, for the interior. I installed a block heater (freeze plug type) on an old Ford Fiesta I parked outside. It worked great, I could hope in the car on the coldest day and hav heat and defrost imeadiately. I did not really need i here in NC to get the car started, but it was really nice for the immeadiate warm air. On more a more recent car, I have gone with a remote start, but all thing considered, the blcok heater is better. Ed $ On more a $more recent car, I have gone with a remote start, but all thing considered, $the blcok heater is better. Well, yeah. One reduces wear on the engine, one increases it. One helps reduce pollution, one helps increase it. One helps the engine start on cold mornings, one doesn't.  Signature.--------------------------------------. silver@stevedunn.ca |Silver, perpetually searching for SNTF|------------------------------ `--------------------------------------' a vaguely phallic .signature > $ On more a > $more recent car, I have gone with a remote start, but all thing considered, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > reduce pollution, one helps increase it. One helps the engine start on cold > mornings, one doesn't. Good points, except the electricity used to power the block heater is not free. I think mine was a 400 watt job. A couple of hours was enough to get everything warm on the coldest NC nights. So we are talking about 800 k-w a night to heat the water. Idling the engine for 10 minutes would accomplish the same thing. It might be interestig to compare the actual costs. Ed It will heat the oil in the pan but not do much for the engine block where the coolant is so it is unlikely to help getting defrost 'much' faster. It will help a little for sure just by having the oil pre warmed. I have had to use BBQ briquettes several times to thaw an oil pan after coming out from winter camping or fishing at -40 and even with the oil sizzling, it still took a 'long' time to get heat inside the vehicle. I also hear that the oil pan pads have a tendency to get knocked off from snow banks and such. The frost plug one is the best and really isn't that hard to put in..... Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's > Is a stick-on oil pad heater going to give me any HVAC heat, or will it > just heat the oil? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > FYI - I live in Minneapolis and temps dip down to -40, with the average > in Jan & Feb being about -10. >Is a stick-on oil pad heater going to give me any HVAC heat, or will it >just heat the oil? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >FYI - I live in Minneapolis and temps dip down to -40, with the average >in Jan & Feb being about -10. Best one for the job is a recirculating heater in the lower rad hose or in a heater hose. I'm in Winnipeg, I know what those -40 mornings are all about.... :) >>FYI - I live in Minneapolis and temps dip down to -40, with the average >>in Jan & Feb being about -10. Just to set the record straight (though it is cold in Mpls. in the winter!), the average January temps here over the past five or six years have been in the range of +11 to +24, not -10. Of course one can't discount the windchill factor... Dave Synthetic is the most obvious solution. > Synthetic is the most obvious solution. Yes! I use URSA synthetic oil (5W-40) and last year my son's newly inherited 2002 dakota (3.9l engine) started after volleyball practice in the middle of winter after being in his high-school parking lot sitting unplugged for 12 hours. Could NOT do that with dyno-oil! |
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