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Mechanic Explains Why Your Heater Shouldn't Be on 'Full Blast' When You Start Your Car
Hello; Have had a similar discussion with a "know it all" as old as I am. Perhaps the sort who gives unsolicited advice. We were in my vehicle on a very cold day. I had the heat knob turned over to the hottest setting and the fan off. He decided to tell me I was doing it wrong. That I should keep the heat setting to cold until after the engine warmed up some.

His being old like myself is a key to why he is wrong in my opinion. We both grew up in the 1950's-60's. His understanding of what happens under the hood had stalled back a few decades. Back in the day coolant/heat systems had shutoff valves which controlled the flow of radiator coolant into the heater. You closed the valve in warm weather to keep hot coolant out of the passenger compartment. Opened the valve to get hot coolant into the heater core.
For some time back then, I lacked funds to replace such a valve on a 57 Chevy. So, I would run a heater hose to the heater fittings on the firewall during cold weather. Then when it got to warm weather, I would loop the heater hose back into fittings on the water pump. Made spring and fall a time of not enough heat or too much heat some days depending on the way the hoses were run.

Back to the story. Newer vehicles have for a long time done away with such valves. now there is coolant constantly flowing into the heater cores. The heater cores become in a sense a second radiator. Getting heat in or keeping heat out of the cabin is done by a box around the heater core, with the box having "blend" doors. The blend doors can open or close in a pattern which sends the heated air to inside or to the outside of the car.

My contention being the heat control knob may as well be all the way to the hottest setting from a cold engine start. I keep the fan off for a time until the engine begins to warm up some, then turn on the fan.

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[526 HRSE]

Therein lies the problem. We believe different realities. I don't think that will ever be fixed.

Still waiting. You've had plenty of time to prove me wrong on this. Looking forward to it.

 

[Balr14]

Still waiting. You've had plenty of time to prove me wrong on this. Looking forward to it.

You will wait a very long time! I believe nothing you said and you would not believe anything I responded with. That's the world we live in.

 

[sk47]

Therein lies the problem. We believe different realities. I don't think that will ever be fixed.

Pick a major news story. Russia? Trayvon? Michael Brown? George Floyd? Spying on Trump campaign, January 6th? Pick one.

Still waiting. You've had plenty of time to prove me wrong on this. Looking forward to it.

You will wait a very long time! I believe nothing you said and you would not believe anything I responded with. That's the world we live in.

Hello; Sadly 526 HRSE is correct. The events named and some not mentioned became big news events. False narrative were spun around them which appears to have become dogma for one group. Blair14 refuses to give up on the dogma even now when many facts are now well known. Choosing to hang onto false narratives in the face of compelling new evidence cannot be explained away by calling them "different realities".

We get our own opinions but there is only one set of correct facts. The events made bold above contain enough politics so as to limit an open discussion. However, the Covid19 events got lots of posts on this site and do illustrate the fallacy of multiple truths. Multiple spins for sure. Multiple ways people in leadership positions eagerly embraced power over us just for the sake of using the power.

 

[K4fxd]

You will wait a very long time! I believe nothing you said and you would not believe anything I responded with. That's the world we live in.

That is pretty head in the sand, closed minded crap.

Facts are facts.

 

[526 HRSE]

You will wait a very long time! I believe nothing you said and you would not believe anything I responded with. That's the world we live in.

What part didn't you believe that i said?

I'm asking you which stories FOX got wrong and CNN or MSNBC got right? If you refuse to answer, i mean, you must know that you've been wrong on all the events? That has to be a weird feeling to live with and never come to terms with?

 

[Balr14]

What part didn't you believe that i said?

I'm asking you which stories FOX got wrong and CNN or MSNBC got right? If you refuse to answer, i mean, you must know that you've been wrong on all the events? That has to be a weird feeling to live with and never come to terms with?

I would remind you FOX paid $790m to avoid a trial over their election lies and they are "opinion journalists" ( by their own admission). Why on earth would I discuss anything thing they say with you or anyone else? I'd sooner try to teach my dog algebra.

 

[K4fxd]

Why on earth would I discuss anything thing they say with you or anyone else? I'd sooner try to teach my dog algebra.

Forget Fox news, what about all the things CNN, MSNBC and the others got wrong?

As far as the election it was in no ones best interest to have it proven that it was rigged, so even if it was it will forever be buried.

 

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Wait, Automakers Can Shut Off Connected Car Features At Any Time? Yes—and They Are

Hello; back a few years ago I had a nice cell phone. It was not 5G so I was informed I had to get a new 5G phone. That nice cell phone now sits in a box. My newer 5G phone is the cheapest track Fone I could find. It makes calls and will receive & send a text. I am lucky or a sad case depending on your point of view in that I do not need to make many calls and even fewer texts. The new phone has internet capacity which I keep turned off most of the time. I only want a cell phone for when I am away from my house to call in case of trouble. That said you all can put me in whatever category such information fits.

Likely will not surprise any that I do not like modern cars with all the tech. Especially the touch screens and the connected stuff. Seems those of you who like or even love this stuff are in for a surprise of your own. Not only will you have to pay extra for these connected features over time, but the car companies can also just drop the service at will at some point.

 

[sk47]

I would remind you FOX paid $790m to avoid a trial over their election lies and they are "opinion journalists" ( by their own admission). Why on earth would I discuss anything thing they say with you or anyone else? I'd sooner try to teach my dog algebra.

Hello; A reason to discuss things "they" say is the overall track record. Such is the main point of recent exchanges in this thread. Several big stories have been listed which Fox got correct and the rest (majority) of the media got wrong or simply avoided coverage.

Calling your positions a "head in the sand" sort is being too kind.

I'm asking you which stories FOX got wrong and CNN or MSNBC got right? If you refuse to answer, i mean, you must know that you've been wrong on all the events? That has to be a weird feeling to live with and never come to terms with?

Hello; I must assume you get to avoid self-introspection by claiming "personal truths".

 

[sk47]

The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming

Hello; This is a scary threat. An insect which lays eggs on any small cut. The eggs hatch out and the larvae us you as a meal by eating thru your flesh. Seems the cattle industry is most worried, but the flies do target humans.
That humans are on the menu and a mention of the Darien Gap struck a chord. Considering all the people moving thru that gap the previous four years I begin to wonder if it was cattle only allowing the Screwworm fly to get reestablished in the USA.

Back in the old days newcomers to the country were kept in quarantine for some weeks to screen for such infections. We all know how that sort of thing was dismissed of late.

This is worrisome. There is a cow pasture next to my property with around twenty head of cattle. I also get cuts many days of the year.

 

[sk47]

I would remind you FOX paid $790m to avoid a trial over their election lies

Hello; This is an out of court settlement with a voting machine outfit. I get how such a settlement can be interrupted to imply fault. I do know such settlements are not always because of fault. And no I am not trying to assert some personal truth. Lawyers' assess the potential cost of going to trial versus a settlement.

I used to subscribe to a bicycle magazine. There was a story of a guy who got hit by a car. He was riding at night in the middle of the road wearing dark clothing and did not have any lights on the bike. The bicycle company settled with him out of court. I am old enough to recall when new bikes did not have any reflectors at all the way they do now. But even a guy like me knows to wear reflective clothes and add some lights when riding at night.

Makes me very well pleased my state, TN, went to paper ballots the last few elections. I vote in a booth which appears very similar to the old electronic voting machines. Difference being now the machine prints out a sheet of paper with my vote selections on it. I can look over that ballot. I take the ballot to another machine which scans my vote and keeps a tally electronically, and in addition keeps the paper ballot intact. That way if an election result is challenged the paper ballots exist for a recount.

Leaving the electronic voting machine disputes aside there were clear problems with the 2020 voting. At least five states changed the voting procedures very shortly before the votes were cast. State laws required that the state legislature only could make such changes, but state attorney generals, I believe, allowed such changes contrary to state law. I have an opinion of this but regardless of any opinions, such are the facts.

 

[526 HRSE]

I would remind you FOX paid $790m to avoid a trial over their election lies and they are "opinion journalists" ( by their own admission). Why on earth would I discuss anything thing they say with you or anyone else? I'd sooner try to teach my dog algebra.

So did they get the story wrong? Was there election fraud? How did 8 million voters (or whatever the number was) just not show up the second time around. And "Opinion Pieces" mean it's their opinion, but they doesn't mean it can't be correct.

So we aren't talking about opinions, we are talking about facts that came to light. It seems you want to avoid the facts to remain in the dark.

Algebra is based on facts, not opinion. I'm not sure your dog would learn much from you.

 

[526 HRSE]

Hello; This is an out of court settlement with a voting machine outfit. I get how such a settlement can be interrupted to imply fault. I do know such settlements are not always because of fault. And no I am not trying to assert some personal truth. Lawyers' assess the potential cost of going to trial versus a settlement.

I used to subscribe to a bicycle magazine. There was a story of a guy who got hit by a car. He was riding at night in the middle of the road wearing dark clothing and did not have any lights on the bike. The bicycle company settled with him out of court. I am old enough to recall when new bikes did not have any reflectors at all the way they do now. But even a guy like me knows to wear reflective clothes and add some lights when riding at night.

Makes me very well pleased my state, TN, went to paper ballots the last few elections. I vote in a booth which appears very similar to the old electronic voting machines. Difference being now the machine prints out a sheet of paper with my vote selections on it. I can look over that ballot. I take the ballot to another machine which scans my vote and keeps a tally electronically, and in addition keeps the paper ballot intact. That way if an election result is challenged the paper ballots exist for a recount.

Leaving the electronic voting machine disputes aside there were clear problems with the 2020 voting. At least five states changed the voting procedures very shortly before the votes were cast. State laws required that the state legislature only could make such changes, but state attorney generals, I believe, allowed such changes contrary to state law. I have an opinion of this but regardless of any opinions, such are the facts.

Part of that settlement was to fire Tucker. I haven't watched Fox since then.

 

[526 HRSE]

Hello; A reason to discuss things "they" say is the overall track record. Such is the main point of recent exchanges in this thread. Several big stories have been listed which Fox got correct and the rest (majority) of the media got wrong or simply avoided coverage.

Calling your positions a "head in the sand" sort is being too kind.


Hello; I must assume you get to avoid self-introspection by claiming "personal truths".

I think you quoted the wrong person?

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