[Vwdiesel] Grumpy starting (was How old is everyone?)

[Kurt Nolte]

I drove a gasser Volvo around for a while that had a block heater... 
noticed the cord when I was doing spark plugs one time, and I swear I 
gawked at that for a solid ten minutes.

Why a 4-cylinder turbo gasser Volvo would have a block heater this far 
south, I will never understand... maybe it was a Canadian car 
originally? I understand their gassers can have block heaters too.

-Kurt

LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
>   I think that's when most of us start using them. In reality I'd suspect 
> a "warm" start would actually ALWAYS be a better thing.  It'd 
> likely help engine life, etc if we used the block heaters any time it 
> was below 80F to 90F outside!  We're not going to do it but..