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To: Ish who wrote (3917)	12/15/2002 5:39:42 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7689

At 20 degrees it took my '95 Jeep 3 miles to warm the engine up to 100. The '00 does the same in one mile. Also the engines don't lose the heat as fast when turned off. The things you know always surprise me. Like, how do you know how long it takes the engine to lose its heat when turned off? You must have stood around to test that with yoru hand in both types of cars. Also, I couldn't tell you for anything how long it takes my car to warm up. And "to 100"? One hundred what? Degrees? How would you know that? I know when my car is getting warm by when the air blowing out of the vents gets warm. I'll bet you can tell me this. Does a car warm up faster if you keep the heat off until it has a chance to get warm, or does it not matter? I always figure maybe the icy air blowing out is cooling the engine out and delaying matters. But I always wonder. It really used to be SO much colder in NY State. N used to teach an early class and had to leave the house at the crack of dawn and we'd keep an electric light bulb burning under the hood all night, running out of the kitchen via an extension cord, blankets piled on top of the hood to hold in the heat, so the engine wouldn't freeze and would start up right away. We also had a spray N would spray someplace under the hood that would help start the engine. Also, we had a special device to thaw the lock. And the car was so cold inside that I'd run out in my nightgown and slippers and start the engine so it would be tolerably warm inside 20 minutes later when he left for work, and run back in to the wood stove to thaw. Also, we spent a lot of time toiling over the windshield with a scraper and a different spray. Those were the days in which there would be ice in the toilet in the morning, and if we didn't leave the faucets dripping heavily enough, the pipes would freeze and N would have to go down in our frightening cellar and thaw them with a propane torch. And when we'd get snowed in, it would last for over a week sometimes. Now it lasts a day, and that rarely. It's as though we live in a different country now, one much closer to the equator.