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Alright, decided to try this thing out. It's been about 18F outside tonight, and plugged the car in for a little over 2.5 hours. Went out and started it up. Not quite the spectacular result I had in mind. The car did fire up *immediately* instead of cranking for a few seconds like it usually does in cold weather. But the temp gauge was still pegged at COLD. For some reason, I was expecting it to maybe be somewhere east of COLD.
However, the rpms did start dropping within maybe 1.5 minutes of start-up. Normally, this car seems to take forever for the the rpms to start dropping after cold-weather start-ups. With a manual tranny, this is annoying because it makes it hard to get going without jerking the car.
Also, the air blowing from the heater vents was already luke-warm.
So, I think it's safe to say that this heater is working. But from this simple experiment, I can see that in really cold weather I am going to try to have this thing plugged in for as many hours as possible before I need to use the car for maximum benefit.
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