Ah, but you can open the defroster vents and leave the block heater on all night and find most of the frost on the windshield is melted, or not there at all - beats scraping in the morning.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:52 AM, fmiser via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com > wrote: > Max wrote: >> > > Twelve hours seems awfully long, in my experience about 30 - 60 >> minutes is long enough for the block heater to be effective. -- >> > > Yeah. Most of the benefit is in the first half-hour. Depending > on ambient temperature, wind, etc I have determined that the > externally measurable temperatures stabilize within 4 hours. I > therefore think anything over 6 hours is pointless. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
