Thread: Took the plunge
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Old 11-21-2009, 01:14 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls View Post
I find the Insight burns so little gas, that it doesn't have a lot of waste heat to spare. When I turn my heater on full, the coolant temperatures start to drop, even while cruising at 60mph.
Especially true when you have mountains, and when you've parked at the top of one to go skiing. It does NOT warm up on the downhill :-(

Even here (where it never gets really cold like Buffalo), I run with about half radiator block from fall to spring. A piece of coroplast cut to size slips between radiator & A/C radiator, and pops in & out in a few seconds.
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