Carryfast:
just like the question of freezing in trucks without night heaters topic.
Whats that supposed to mean?
Donāt even ask him. The explanation could get as lengthy as Chinas contribution to the world wide global crisis, or even down to axle configuration I always pretend i never seen them !!!
Problem.
freezing cold night out with a truck with no night heater.
iced up windows on a car thatās been left outside during a freezing cold frosty night.
Solution.Idle engine with heater on.Which will not only keep the interior of the truck with no night heater warm.It will also defrost the windows of the car etc without bothering with a scraper and the fact that the engine has been warmed up will stop them re freezing and/or misting up or freezing on the inside a mile down the road.
Couple of problems with that though, firstly, if parked with other trucks i wont run the engine as i believe its rude and dont like it if someone else runs theirs, secondly, i wouldnt have a job for much longer if i ran the engine all night.
Its not a long term solution running the engine for long periods while stationary either as it chokes them up.
Blimey so itās a freezing cold night early 1980ās youāre parked up for the night with an old F10 with no night heater and youāre not going to leave the motor idling with the heater on because itās rude and itāll choke up the engine.Those driving around with frozen up windows in the morning must obviously have a similar idea too.
As I said it seems to be a British thing although in keeping with that Iām surprised you never said thirdly it adds to āclimate changeā.
In the car I generally leave it running for five minutes before setting off and itās enough to clear the windows and warm the car up.
These days engines are obviously good to go as soon as you fire up. But in the old days of carburetors and chokes I remember seeing cars belching smoke and kangarooing up the road been driven from cold.
But how often do you see people charge out the house in a rush in the car driving up the road with there head out the window as there late.
The other one is out with the kettle of boiling water on to the cold window to see it crack lol
Carryfast:
As I said it seems to be a British thing although in keeping with that Iām surprised you never said thirdly it adds to āclimate changeā.
Goldfinger:
Glad I got heated front and rear windows on my car, while the engines running, I can scrap the side windows. By then, theyāre all clear.
Me too. Although I donāt bother scraping the side windows, I just put them down and drive home at 90mph with the wind in my hair. Iām a double hard ā ā ā ā ā ā ā you see.
Carry fast is talking Sense here for a change. Iād imagine in this day and age any sleeper cab truck has a night heater as standard and rightly so. Just because people managed without them in the 70s and 80s it doesnāt mean we should do it now. I mean you wouldnāt accept a motor without power steering now days.
If the night heater packed up thatās life and although I wouldnāt expect it to be vor to repair it that day if I was away Iād expect it to be done at at least the next inspection but wouldnāt hesitate to run the engine at night if it was cold.
Any boss who thinks you aināt worth a few gallons of derv until its fixed isnāt much of a boss.
Carryfast:
As I said it seems to be a British thing although in keeping with that Iām surprised you never said thirdly it adds to āclimate changeā.
brilliant
Had to chuckle yesterday coming up the road back to Canada a truck passed trailer had the stupid side skirts that look like a sheet of hard board and these stupid gazebo things round the back doors that are meant to be aerodynamic and save fuel. Trailer had some slogan about helping to conserve energy.
All well and good but was been pulled by a 379 peterblt the worlds most unaerodynamic truck with twin stacks blowing black smoke like a 1970s Russian steel foundry.
Did sound good though. Only in America
Iām so glad that my modded Hydronic heater (like a truck night heater but it heats the coolant circuit) is working on the car, takes less than a minute to have the inside at a nice 26 degrees, assuming Iāve programmed it to turn on 20 mins before I get in .
Hi all.I donāt know how popular it is in Europe and North America but up here all the trucks have engine heaters which are used to heat the engine and cab by means of a cable which you just plug into a 220v socket.
Also the trucks we drive are fitted with windscreen heating[same as rear windows]Mike
Carryfast:
just like the question of freezing in trucks without night heaters topic.
Whats that supposed to mean?
Donāt even ask him. The explanation could get as lengthy as Chinas contribution to the world wide global crisis, or even down to axle configuration I always pretend i never seen them !!!
Pmsl I actually cried reading this lol
But In all fairness his reply was quite short for him
Thatās ok until you have a VW TDI engine, you can idle mine all night from cold and it Wonāt get hot. Have to drive it, usually leave it idling while I scrape.
Some stupid cow hit my horse last year because she hadnt cleared her windscreen , thankfully was only a glancing blow and bar a bit of swelling my mare was fine. The car driver didnt even know what she hit so could have been alot worse. She also agreed to pay our vets bill!
starfighter:
Thatās ok until you have a VW TDI engine, you can idle mine all night from cold and it Wonāt get hot. Have to drive it, usually leave it idling while I scrape.
Got one in my Ford Galaxy, bloody thing goes cold when going downhill , I think thatās the reason why they fitted a diesel powered booster heater .
I always pretend i never seen them !!!
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