[gumby79]

Originally Posted by Fingie

Anyone know if the block heater is beneficial to use at warm temperatures?

Yes... The benefits are the same as winter, easyer starting, takes less fule to reach operating temp. I use my factory block heater in summer some times (when I realize that I am going somewhere early enough )

My truck will reach aprox 80-90°f in mild winter and 135°f in summer 80-90°f ambant. Down in Las Vegas, Nevada it would read 113°f before starting, no plug.
Just .be shure if it is a remote (in-line instead of in the block) that its not over heating it self. A frind of mying hear in Montana, installed a remote on his full size Ford Bronco went in the heater line and had an internal Circ pump that failed . So now it will boils off the water and gets hot enough to burn the paint off the outside of the heater. I had expected convection to keep it supplied with -20°F water. But his heater core is a high point ,both lines go downhill to the engine trapping air in the unit


Do your fellow northerners use "parking heaters"? https://www.eberspacher.com/products...d-heaters.html