Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: > also ...keep heater temp lever off or nearly off, until some temp is showing > on the gauge. > ( if heaters are on full from stone cold... > it may never warm up properly , or take, way, way too long. ) > > also .. > waterboxer vanagons .. > they must be driven until fully warmed up, every time. > > about the worst thing you can do for one is fire it up stone cold, then > drive only about two miles. > They don't like that at all.
What is so nasty about the cold start short run scenario? The ignorant folks among us need to know. Side Note, quote of the day: Naming bicycles anthropormorphizes them and they don't like that. -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity |
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