I have an electrical heater in my daily use car.
One goes to the engine block to heat the coolant
and the other is a 2000 watt heater/fan on the
passenger side floor. It takes about an hour to get
a warm car in the winter. The petrol-powered
heaters work much faster but cost much more to
buy and run. (Petrol vs electrical energy prices)
Thomas
Laury, Victor wrote:
> I just looked at the web pages for these two companies. Pretty neat,
> especialy the Eberspacher. You can telephone your car and tell it to warm
> up. It fires up it's heater and circulates the engine coolant through it,
> heating the cab and the enigine having it warm and ready to start when you
> get to it. My 2 years of high school German comes into use every now and
> then.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas - Sweden [mailto:csp311@telia.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 7:26 AM
> To: Patrick J. Horne
> Cc: RWM; datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Heater advice
>
> We still use those petrol-powered heaters here. They are
> much more sophisticated now with temp control and remote
> on and off. They are made by Webasto or Eberspacher and
> smaller than the first VW beetle type.
>
> Thomas
>
> Patrick J. Horne wrote:
>
> > I don't recall kerosene fired heaters, but I had a 58 Beetle with a
> > gasoline fired heater. In denver, with up to a foot of snow on the car I
> > would go out in the morning and start the heater and go back in. 15
> > minutes later there was no snow to sweep off and the interior was much
> > warmer than I liked. They made a similar heater for the VW bus that was a
> > much better match. The stock heaters took way too long to get a bus warm!
> >
> > Peace,
> > Pat
> >
> > - Support Habitat for Humanity, A "hand up", not a "hand out" -
> >
> > Pat Horne, Network Manager, Shop Supervisor/Future planner, CS Dept,
> > University of Texas, 1 University Station C0500,Austin, Tx. 78712-1188 USA
> > voice (512)471-9730, fax (512)471-8885, horne@cs.utexas.edu
> >
> > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, RWM wrote:
> >
> > > Older air-cooled VW Beetles had optional kerosene heaters, not that I'd
> > > recommend that approach.
> > >
> > > - RWM, '69 2000 Solex (bypassed heater)
> > >
> > > evan troxel wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have heard of someone putting an electric heater in his MG. Seems
> like a
> > > > nice alternative to the water ones...immediate heat. Anyone do this
> in
> > > > their datsun?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Evan Troxel
> > > > Alta Loma, CA
> > > > '66 SPL311
> > >
> > > --
> > > R.W. Mann & Company, Inc. >> Airline Industry Analysis and Consulting
> > > Port Washington, NY 11050 >> tel 516-944-0900, fax 516-944-7280
> > > mailto:info@RWMann.com >> URL http://www.RWMann.com/
> > >
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