Do you put the heater on in the car?

Mark_Hewitt

Inactive wrote: »

As well as having iced / misted up windows, which is clearly dangerous.;)

Indeed, which is why I love my heated windscreen, which does use a shed load of power, but probably not as much as I used to use before, working the engine hard to get some heat going!

harveybobbles

renegade wrote: »

With the soaring costs of fuel, is it saving on fuel if you don't put the heater on?

What a stupid question!

Do you walk around the streets naked to save wearing out your clothes/shoes?

Do you leave the lights off at night in your home?

Do you have a wash using a Flash Antibac Wipe?

Ezmondino

Col7777 wrote: »

I know a guy who turns his wipers off in the rain when going under a bridge.

LOL brilliant.

HannahIOW

I can't bear being cold, I would use the heater even if it did increase fuel consumption.

movilogo

If you can afford to run a car, then you can afford the extra miniscule consumption of fuel for turning on the heater.

This is money saving website - not money scrimping website

Mark_Hewitt

It would be interesting to see if there had been any objective tests of this. I'd be surprised if it were more than 0.1% of the total. In fact I'd imagine leaving the engine idling for 10 seconds while you put your seatbelt on will likely use many times the amount of fuel the heater will consume in your entire journey.

Lum

Regarding the really mean person in the OP who doesn't turn it on to save money, the OP should ask them to compare the cost of running the heater (which uses a waste by-product of running the engine) vs the cost of 4 people burning up extra carbohydrates in order to maintain body temperature.

It'll probably cost you the price of a packet of ready salted crisps in increased food consumption to make up for doing that journey in the car.

exup

I would think that in some situations - running the hot air into the cabin could make the engine more efficient as it will have a cooling effect on it.
Same as the RAM air intakes which pressurise the intake air and get more into a hot engine. hotter air is less dense and lowers efficiency.

SandC

In my earlier cars I used to have to put the heating on when it was hot weather to stop it overheating.

renegade

Strider590 wrote: »

Put your heater on and put your F*CKING lights ON!!! It's does NOT cost you more fuel! LMAO- I will make sure she sees this advice- thanks!