How to quickly warm up the car

The question of how to quickly warm up the car, worries many car owners with the onset of cold weather. After all, it is necessary to heat not only the internal combustion engine, but also the interior. There are several effective methods to help warm up a car quickly in winter. To do this, you can use special inserts in the cooling system, use auto-heating, warm up the internal combustion engine and / or interior using portable hair dryers, use special heaters, thermal accumulators. the following is a list of methods that help to warm up the car in the shortest possible time even in the most severe frosts.

General recommendations for accelerating warm-up

To begin with, we list general recommendations, about which Every car owner needs to knowliving in the respective latitudes. First of all, you need to remember that you need to warm the engine only at idle, in order not to apply a significant load to it. Be sure to keep your car's battery charged. And do not turn on any electrical appliances when the car is not running. Let the engine start first and warm up normally. For some modern foreign cars, they are allowed to warm up on the go, but subject to two mandatory conditions. Firstly, at low engine speeds (about 1000 rpm). And secondly, if the frost on the street is insignificant (not lower than -20 ° and subject to the use of engine oil with the appropriate viscosity). However, it is still better to warm up even foreign cars at idle, because this way you can save the resource of the internal combustion engine, namely, the crank mechanism.

To start and accelerate warm-up, we recommend using the following algorithm of actions:

• the air intake to the stove must be turned on from the street;
• transfer the performance of the climate control to the minimum value (if available, otherwise proceed in the same way with the stove);
• turn on the window blowing mode;
• turn on the fan of the stove or climate control;
• if there is a heated seat, you can turn it on;
• when the temperature of the coolant is around + 70 ° C, you can turn on the warm mode on the stove, while turning off the air intake from the street.

With the above algorithm of actions, the driver will have to endure the first few minutes at a negative temperature, however, the described procedure is guaranteed to accelerate the heating of both the internal combustion engine and the passenger compartment.

As for the time during which it is worth warming up the internal combustion engine, then usually 5 minutes is enough for this. However, there are several nuances here. If you have an old car, the internal combustion engine of which does not warm up so quickly, then this time may not be enough. But according to the current Rules of the Road, a vehicle cannot be in a crowded place with ICEm working at idle, more than 5 minutes. Otherwise, there is a penalty. But if the car is in a garage or in a parking lot, then this requirement can be neglected. And during the time until the internal combustion engine is warming up, you can clear the ice from the glass and side mirrors.

For a quick warm-up, it will be more effective to use additional devices and devices designed to accelerate the heating of the vehicle's power unit.

Why bother to warm up the car

Before we move on to discussing how to quickly warm up the car, we need to find out why you need to perform this procedure at all. The answer to this question will be a number of reasons. Among them:

• At negative temperatures, process fluids poured into various vehicle systems thicken and cannot fully perform the functions assigned to them. This applies to engine oil, bearing lubrication (including CV joint grease), coolant, and so on.
• The geometric dimensions of individual internal combustion engine units in a frozen state change. Although the changes are minor, they are quite enough to change the gaps between the parts. Accordingly, when operating in cold mode, their wear will increase and the total motor resource will decrease.
• Cold ICE is unstableespecially under load. This applies to both old carburetor and more modern injection ICEs. There may be gaps in his work, a decrease in traction and a decrease in dynamic performance.
• A cold engine consumes more fuel... This is due to the fact that in a short time it is necessary to significantly raise the temperature of the metal unit and its individual parts.

so, even a short-term warm-up of the internal combustion engine at a negative temperature will significantly extend the life of the motor and other mechanisms of the car.

With what help to accelerate the warm-up of the internal combustion engine

the list of devices that help speed up the warm-up includes 4 basic ones:

• electric heating pre-heaters;
• liquid pre-heaters;
• thermal accumulators;
• fuel line heaters.

All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. However, from this list, we will consider only the first two types, since the rest are not very popular due to various reasons, including low efficiency, complexity of installation, operation, as well as the harm that they can bring to individual vehicle components.

Electric heating heaters

There are four types of these heaters:

Electric heater

• block;
• branch pipes;
• portable;
• external.

This type of heater is the most optimal, since it can be used even in the most severe frost, and these devices do not lose their effectiveness. Their only significant drawback is the need for an external household outlet with a voltage of 220 V, although there are also autonomous electric heating plates, they are very expensive, and their efficiency is extremely low, especially in severe frosts.

Liquid heaters

An example of an autonomous heater

Their second name is fuel because they work using fuel. The circuit uses a ceramic pin, which consumes less current for heating than a metal one. The automation of the system is configured so that the heater can be turned on at any time, even when the driver is not around. This makes it convenient to warm up the car before leaving.

The advantages of autonomous heaters include high efficiency, ease of use, namely autonomy, wide options for setting and programming. The disadvantages are dependence on the battery, high cost, complexity of installation, some models are dependent on the quality of the fuel used.

On modern cars, there are even systems such as heating with exhaust gases, but this is too difficult and it is impossible to order installation on cars that are not provided for such systems.

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also some useful tips for quickly heating the internal combustion engine

There are several low-cost and effective methods with which you can simplify the winter start of the motor, and quickly warm it up to operating temperature. Despite their simplicity, they are really effective (albeit to varying degrees), since they have been used for more than a decade by car owners in different parts of our country.

So, remember that to quickly warm up the internal combustion engine, you can:

One of the methods is to insulate the radiator.

• Cover the radiator grill with a flat but solid object. Most often, for this they use leatherette things (special covers) or banal cardboard boxes. They restrict the flow of cold air to the radiator, making it possible for it to not cool very quickly. Do not forget to remove this “blanket” only in the warm season! But this method is rather will help when driving.
• While the car is parked in the garage or near the entrance, you can cover the internal combustion engine with a similar cloth object (blanket). Its only advantage is that ICE cools down more slowly at night.
• If your car has an autostart function (by temperature or timer), then you should use it. So, if it works on temperature (a more advanced version), then when severe frosts are reached, the internal combustion engine on the car will start itself. Same with the timer. You can, for example, set autostart every 3 hours. This will be quite sufficient at temperatures down to -20 ° C. Only in both cases it is also recommended turn on the stove in the mode of drawing air from the passenger compartment, with blowing of legs / glasses or legs / head.
• If in your car there is a heated seat, then you can turn it on... This will speed up the heating of the passenger compartment.
• Close the stove radiator. This action has two results. First, a certain amount of coolant is excluded from circulation. Naturally, a smaller amount of it will warm up faster, which means it will warm up the internal combustion engine and interior faster. Secondly, the probability of souring of the stove faucet decreases (this is especially true for domestic cars). It must be closed at the end of the trip. Then, in frost, start the internal combustion engine, and when the temperature of the coolant is about + 80 ° С ... + 90 ° С, reopen it.
  

  Insert valve into the cooling system

• Some cars (for example, Daewoo Gentra, Ford Focus, Chery Jaggi and some others) have a steam outlet in the cooling system that goes to the expansion tank. So, antifreeze flows through it in a small circle even when the coolant has not warmed up either. Accordingly, this increases the warm-up time. The idea is to install a fuel return valve in the section of the pipe in the internal combustion engine, which does not allow fluid to flow until a certain pressure is reached (depending on the car, you need to clarify in the documentation). It comes in several diameters, so you can choose the size that suits your car's cooling system. in order to check the need to install such a valve, it is enough to check when the engine warms up whether the mentioned steam outlet pipe is heated. If it heats up, it means that antifreeze goes through it along with air vapor, which contributes to prolonged warming up. When buying a valve, pay attention to the fact that the arrow is directed away from the tank. For more information, see the attached video.

vehicles with turbo diesel engines must not be warmed up while driving. you need to wait for the engine to warm up, in order for its crankshaft to gain high speed. Only then can the turbine start up. The same applies to ICE based on a carburetor. They are not recommended to warm up on the go. It is better to do this for a few minutes at medium speed. So you save his resource.

These simple tips will help you speed up the warm-up of the internal combustion engine of almost any car. They have been tested many times, and they work effectively, judging by the reviews of car owners of various cars.

Hack and predictor Aviator

The first thing you should definitely remember and follow is Any car in the cold needs to be warmed up! It all depends on the time spent on it and the relevant conditions. After all, driving an unheated car significantly reduces the resource of its individual units and mechanisms. Well, in order not to spend a lot of time on this, you can use different methods - starting with automatic ones (using auto-heating by temperature or a timer) and ending with the simplest ones, for example, opening / closing the stove faucet. Perhaps you also know some methods to speed up the warm-up of the internal combustion engine. Please write about it in the comments.