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Engine
The main problem in the winter - a cold engine start. Most often it occurs in gasoline engines, but in a strong frost it can face and the owner of a car with a fuel-injected engine. The reasons are known - the thickened oil, drop in battery capacity and bad evaporation of gasoline. Oils and batteries will be considered separately, but in the meantime - a few words about the experience of countries with a cold climate, which are widely used pre-start electric heater - a sort of "kipyatilnichki" in the engine cooling system. I rode up to the house or to the office, stuck a fork into an electrical outlet, turned on the timer ... By the necessary time the engine is warmed up, and some designs provide also salon warming. Electric heating device for several years and are presented in the Russian market. The most popular Finnish heaters which can be equipped with timers. Cost with installation - about $ 250. For about $ 100 you can buy a domestic production heater (for VAZ models and "Volga"), but the timer is not provided for him. The main disadvantage of electric heating is that your home or office need to have a special plate with a rosette. It Finns well, and we have the corresponding infrastructure if will appear, not soon and not everywhere. Another solution - an independent heater on liquid fuel, which is also built into the engine cooling system and works on the principle of the boiler. It serves as fuel for gasoline or diesel fuel, depending on what your car engine is running. In the Russian market autonomous heaters manufacture Eberspacher, Webasto, and also products Schadrinskogo Auto Aggregate Plant (SCHAAZ). Install the heater can be at special stations, which are already quite a few in Moscow and across Russia. Warm-up time - no more than 15 minutes, is thus spent only 200 grams of gasoline or diesel fuel. Such heaters (besides the timer) can be equipped with a remote control device. The cost of stand-alone heater in the Russian market - about $ 1,000. The benefit of heating systems consists in the fact that in their application increases engine life. For information: each engine cold start at -20 ?� C is equivalent to 800 km mileage. By the way, according to modern views the engine reaches operating temperature more quickly, and it will wear less if after start-up does not stand still and start moving as soon as possible, avoiding, of course, unnecessary load on the engine.
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