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staying warm
i remember driving through yukon, canada at 35 below
while wearing insulated cover alls and having a piece of cardboard infront of the radiator and still being quite cold. if i remember correctly the svx uses a 180 degree thermostadt and nothing warmer is available since it is designed for the 180 thermostadt. i don't remember 35 below in anchorage for a few years now but we have had in years past so i was wondering if anyone warmed the cold blooded beast and if so how they accomplished this feat. i have already added a engine circulating heater and experimented with a portable propane space heater which i stopped using because i think it fogged the windows even more than usual. come to think of it i was running the heat just to defog the windows a couple of days ago and the recirculate button wasn't on. any suggestions on how to dry the cab or warm it. thanks dwayn p s the coldest drive i've made was through montana. ice formed on the exterior of my car. the car looked like it was covered with 3 to 4 inch clam shaped ice barnicles. i think it was in march of 1988.
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Wow that's cold. Burrr.
Is it possible the thermostat isn't working? I think that with the radiator blocked off the SVX should get warm. The heater coolant path is right off the water pump and by passes the radiator. So your engine never gets hot. Is the under cover installed? Then again I have not driven in -35F so what do I know?
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Re: staying warm
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The only way I've been able to keep the frost off of the interior windows is to keep the air conditioner running all winter. It dries the air. If you read the manual you'll note that the A/C is turned on when you push the defrost setting, which is where I got the idea to leave the a/c on all the time. Regularly cleaning out the snow & frozen melt from the winter floor mats helps a lot. Just taking them out and giving them a swat before you warm up the car & thaw them works here. Maybe they'd be too solid at -35F. |
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Seen almost -40° in my SVX. All I use is a Subaru block heater and keep it plugged in when I'm parked at work or overnight.
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I've been in Colorado mountains @ 35-40 below without problem. May be your heater core is plugged up. Either have the cooling system flushed or try removing both heater hoses from the heater and blowing compressed air through the nipples. Common occurence for many cars with a few years on them.
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