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Re:VW Scandal Will Speed Up Diesel's Demise by gambiting on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @03:35AM (#10337252)
The car is two years old, I don't think I need to change anything to be warm in winter :P And in any case, what do you mean by heaters? The only source of heat is the engine coolant, which circulates through a radiator in front of a fan in the cabin - until the engine heated up the coolant, there's no warm air coming out.
Re:VW Scandal Will Speed Up Diesel's Demise by pvaldes on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:08AM (#10338046)
> it takes forever to warm up in winter

> there's no warm air coming out

Ok, is a different problem then that I thought. Never say this in any of my cars, but it seems that other qashqai owners have the same problem. Not easy solution for a feature that your car just do not implement. If the air is in closed circuit (inner) will warm a couple of minutes before, but do not expect miracles with your model. In this case, is just a problem of poor design.

> what do you mean by heaters?

I don't know the name of the piece in english, they are needed for warming up the engine before starting the car. When some of them eventually break and is cold outside you can't start the car after several minutes. (Just need to replace the broken pieces, but is a new car and this is not the problem here).

Re:VW Scandal Will Speed Up Diesel's Demise by ptaipale on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:26AM (#10338343)
So, with heaters you mean glow plugs [0]. However, they are not the problem if the engine starts.

If your problem is that the engine starts, but it takes a very long time to get warm air from the heating system, in modern cars it's most likely just that the engine is extremely efficient in converting energy of fuel to kinetic energy, so there is no excess heat that could be used for heating the cabin and keeping windows clear from mist.

(Heating is also slow or off if your engine is out of coolant, but if you keep running it without coolant, you'll soon break it so that you really do notice.)

Just think what this heating problem will be in electric cars...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowplug