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We had a bit of a cold snap here! It was ~25F yesterday morning and ~11F this morning on the way to work.
Yesterday, per usual, the car got up to 180 in a reasonable amount of time ... but didn't throw heat. By the time I go to work, I would describe the heat as luke warm.
I bought some pipe insulation and put that around the grille opening on the top grille. Then, there is a honeycomb material on the upper grille that I never could get to block right - it would always have the tape peel off. I stuffed some of the pipe insulation behind there for now.
I also blocked off the third section of the lower grille.
I started running the HVAC on hot (but no heat obviously at first) when I started out because the windows were frosty. I had luke warm heat about half way in - which isn't bad considering I never turn my heat on until I'm almost to work. By the time I got to work, I had quite acceptable heat.
Not too bad considering it was a lower temperature and I had the HVAC on the whole way.
I think I let the car run for 1 minute this morning.
My fuel economy is a bit lower this winter - I believe that could be from running a 5w-20 synthetic blend opposed to the 0w-20 I usually run.
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