Hallo,
Ich weiß nicht, ob dies auf diesem Sub gepostet werden kann.
Ich bin Schweizer und habe gerade herausgefunden, dass das aus Schweden importierte Auto, das ich kaufen möchte, über eine Innenraumheizung (und vielleicht eine Motorheizung?) verfügt.
Aber ehrlich gesagt weiß ich nicht, was ich davon halten soll. Ist es schädlich für die Mechanik/Elektrik des Autos? Ist es möglich, es zu entfernen? Ich lebe in einer Stadt mit gemäßigtem Klima, in der es nie übermäßig kalt wird, und ich habe sowieso keinen Ort, an dem ich es anschließen kann.
Eigentlich finde ich es amüsanter als alles andere, aber ich hätte gerne ein paar Informationen darüber?
Vielen Dank im Voraus für Ihre Antworten
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Von Kysmoboy
23 Kommentare
Cabin heater is neither good or bad.
Engine heater is good, since it can pre-warm the engine before it starts, reducing wear and tear on the enginge parts.
It really doesn’t have any effect on the functionality of the rest of the car, most of them have an on off switch so if you keep it tutned off it will have zero impact on your car.
Edit: and ofcourse you can just unplug the whole thing, but it’s really nice if you’re ever in a colder climate.
Those questions are wild
There is a normal 220 plug under the passenger dash. You can unplug it there and leave the rest of the heating system alone. It won’t be intertwined in the cars electrical system so its safe to ignore.
Looks like a standard plug-in cabin heater used for pre-heating the cabin. You can just remove it if you don’t need it. It’s pretty standard in Swedish cars, especially in the northern parts of the country. An engine block heater is obviously important, but a cabin heater is also extremely useful because it takes a while for the cabin to heat up from e.g. -20C on a winter morning.
It is not connected to the car’s electrical system and won’t cause problems.
Luxury. The cabin heater doesn’t affect the electric or mechanical install, it’s completely separate and removable if you don’t like it.
That badboy is probably one or two screws to lefty loosy and toss away. A 1 minute job and nothing to consider as a positive/negative, it just is. Probably connected to normal 230VAC under the passenger seat for you to just unplug.
You would find it more useful than amusing when living in a country that have temperatures that regularly goes down to -30C, and often below that.
Idk how pre-heating an engine before start could ever be a bad thing, but I’m not a mechanic.
This is just, wow.
Ask a mechanic to explain like you’re 5 years old, preferably with crayon illustrations.
Just ignore it
Before you remove it please try out getting into a warm car in winter time. It’s pretty neat.
You don’t have those?!
I remember one of my family’s former cars had a mount for a standalone, detachable cabin heater sitting in that same spot. It was basically meant to sit there while your car was parked, so you could heat it up 10 minutes before actually using it, saving you time from scraping frost off the windows and generally making it cosier in winter. It was basically a gimmick that I think my family used maybe over one or two winters.
I don’t know if your car’s cabin heater is the same thing, but I imagine that it’d be something similar; a gimmick that you can just ignore or remove without much fuss.
Standard in Sweden, takes 10 seconds to remove if you don’t like it.
It’s rare to find a car in Sweden that doesn’t have this or another way to heat the car while parked.
These are pretty common in Sweden. It can get stupid cold during the winter, and if you park your car outside it’s nice to have something that will heat up the car quicker than what the ac itself can do
Its a progressive-muslim-car. They let the woman drive and take the blame if something goes bad. Basically they have their own break etc on the front passenger side to control the woman, a bit.
Where do you live? It’s shitty cold in Sweden and a plug for heating the car is the shit otherwise you will drive to work cold. Also you don’t have to defrost your car for 15 minutes, scraping. Frost and ice( which by the way gets you warm). If you have it on during the night you will have a good time.. and for us it’s natural to install it since yeah it gets subzero 6 months a year.
I have one in my car and it is really nice to use it on cold days. Doesn’t even have to be freezing. If it’s windy and chilly outside, it feels amazing to get into a warm car.
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
You plug in a cable in the hole qnd depending on what it actually is it is either an engine warmer or goes to a regular outlet in the car where you can plug in a heater for the inside. And no it won’t hurt anything and trust me when i say its more trouble removing one then leaving it
Its an extra wiring harness in the car where you can plug in the car to an ordinary 230V power outlet, to feed an electrical heater fitted near the oil trough on the engine and a detachable air heater in the cabin.
The air heater can be detached and the internal wires can be hidden. Can’t do anything good looking about the exterior hole for the plug, though.
Quite common setup in climates where engines refuse to start unless preheated, or where their life span is severely prolonged if the engine is preheated.
You can remoce the heater in the cabin for more legspace. It is probably just 2 screws and the electrical plug. Leave the rest as is, for increased resell value. Having that heater increases the odds of selling the vehicle on to the balkans instead of having to scrap it when you are done with it.