No you don't....not really.....LOL

Cajun / Al

 

Heres a quicker warmer upper...you can use upper/lower or just upper vents and stab that button on the rightside of the fan switch,,this is recirculate..takes the warm air and repumps it back accross the heater instead of trying to warm outside cold air..but be careful..in short time the vents can get really hot..and I mean hot,,I'D be wary about using this long term as its anybodies guess what he high heat would do to the vents over time..(I'm thinking brittle and cracking)..remember,its only plastic

 

Well I am in Ohio with you and my temp needle moves before I get 100 yards down the street. I have heat in the first mile.

It used to take my 4.3 Sonoma over 2 miles to even get the hint of warm with a new stat.

 

Wow, all these Ohio, and midwest HHR guys. We rule.

I let mine warm till the first notch on the temp gauge to let the oil heat up a bit, then I start driving. I concur that it heats up quicker under load, but overall, I'm happy with how fast the motor heats up.

The LSD and Blizzaks make snow driving pretty uneventful, except for the rather excessive tire noise on dry pavement. Oh well, it beats the crunching noise from hitting roadside objects.

 

I used to run vent / recirculate for fast warmups in my 97 Probe. I am refraining from doing it in the HHR because the A/C compressor always runs in the recirc position and there's no low temp cutoff, according to Chevy Mgr. I may wire in a switch to disconnect power to the A/C clutch if it doesn't throw a pressure code.

 

It is very uneventful without Bllizzals and LSD only quiter. I think it is more the HHR that is good in the snow vs what ever tire.

I took my SS outr into a snow covered parking lot to see how hard I could push it in the snow. I have found you would have to make some pretty lame move to really lose it.

My only worry is deep snow and ice and what damage it may do to the nose. I already have pushed now in my drive way with the air dam. We need a snow deflector more than a bug deflector.

 

I went to a our high schools State semi-final football game last night in Ashland , Ohio. Boy was it cold for Ohio in November. It was 16 deg. and 15 mph winds, about froze my toes and fingers off after 3 hours.

Normally it is about 45 to 50 deg this time of year. Hope this is not a sign of what the winter is gonna be like this year.

Glad I don't live north of here where these temps are normal.

 

I was just in Ashland on Friday! What teams were playing

 

I just installed a remote start in my SS yesterday...and its a manual :)

It'll be warming up while I'm getting ready for work tomorrow

Have a "warm" drive to work tmr Adam

 

hey Matt, stop hijacking the thread =-)