Cold weather driving

Slogger Jogger

Minus 14 on way to work this morning from south Wicklow. Even the inside of the windscreen was iced up to begin with. Hands and feet bloody freezing the whole drive despite the heating on high. By the time I got to work the temperature had risen to a balmy -3.

Fair play to my skoda octavia diesel all the same. Started 1st time and drove on crappy roads without a bother.

JJJJNR

Hmm sounds like my run, I pack a hot water bottle !!

peasant

The thing is that diesels (and especially modern diesels) don't get very hot at low load. Trundling around at low revs hardly gets them lukewarm. So in this kind of weather where it's freezing outside and you can't put the boot down it's hat and glove time really

MarkoC

peasant wrote: »

The thing is that diesels (and especially modern diesels) don't get very hot at low load. Trundling around at low revs hardly gets them lukewarm. So in this kind of weather where it's freezing outside and you can't put the boot down it's hat and glove time really

I think its more about the thermostat.
Thermosthats on cars which are made for colder countries, will open later which means the smaller circle will get hotter and therefor you have more warmth in saloon.

Slogger Jogger

Yeah, had to wrap up alright. I noticed that my avg fuel consumption for the journey was still 5.0l/100km despite the desperate slow speed at times.

peasant

I know there is "paddy spec" for cars in Ireland ...but not when it comes to thermostats.

Some modern diesels run so cold, they actually have auxilliary heaters for the cabin.