It was -10 in Cambridge today and I thought I was going to rip the door handle off trying to open it this morning.

As my SC is not fitted with an FBH, I've plugged a fan heater into a remote plug socket and placed it on the parcel shelf with the cable trailing out the boot and into my garage.

I just need to remember to disconnect it before I drag the house to work

Cheers

JustinP 
Gone - Range Rover Supercharged 2006

seen a local chappy do this with his volvo estate - works a treat 3kw fan heater in the boot

This is common in Scandinavia where cars have a 240V block heater, all the hire cars have a little mains fan heater in the passenger footwell

I believe you can get a block heater for the Jag engine? Then you just plug in every night with a weatherproof socket by the tow bar or something... run it on a household timer to kick in an hour before you set off in the morning... 

dan_uk_1984 wrote:

I believe you can get a block heater for the Jag engine? Then you just plug in every night with a weatherproof socket by the tow bar or something... run it on a household timer to kick in an hour before you set off in the morning...

Might look into that. Thanks Dan.

interesting, but it wouldnt work if you lived at the top of a block of flats [unless you had a very long lead]...  ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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scarey wrote:

interesting, but it wouldnt work if you lived at the top of a block of flats [unless you had a very long lead]...

Who owns a Range Rover and lives in a block of flats? And surely if that was the case it would be a cheap oil burner with the FBH fitted as standard anyway! 

The other benefit is telling everyone you have an electric RR

Fairly sure the block heater is on Microcat somewhere, replaces a drain plug IIRC.

dan_uk_1984 wrote:

scarey wrote:

interesting, but it wouldnt work if you lived at the top of a block of flats [unless you had a very long lead]...

Who owns a Range Rover and lives in a block of flats? And surely if that was the case it would be a cheap oil burner with the FBH fitted as standard anyway!

Err... I do...

dantheman wrote:

dan_uk_1984 wrote:

scarey wrote:

interesting, but it wouldnt work if you lived at the top of a block of flats [unless you had a very long lead]...

Who owns a Range Rover and lives in a block of flats? And surely if that was the case it would be a cheap oil burner with the FBH fitted as standard anyway!

Err... I do...

Really? How quaint. 

dan_uk_1984 wrote:

dantheman wrote:

dan_uk_1984 wrote:

scarey wrote:

interesting, but it wouldnt work if you lived at the top of a block of flats [unless you had a very long lead]...

Who owns a Range Rover and lives in a block of flats? And surely if that was the case it would be a cheap oil burner with the FBH fitted as standard anyway!

Err... I do...

Really? How quaint.

dantheman going come back now and tell you its a penthouse in kensington..

For flat owners

http://www.dry-it-out.com/inverter-5006-3k...-free-fuel

dont tell your insurance company...  2004 black Vogue TD6

http://www.dry-it-out.com/inverter-5006-3k...-free-fuel

It still requires a mains lead! 
Gone - Range Rover Supercharged 2006

My Cheap Oil burner doesn't have a FBH fitted, unless I'm missing something!

Only options on the computer are for Ventilation... nothing for heating.  2010 Disco XS TDV6, 2009 Freelander 2 GS

Previous Landrover products -1990 110 TDI CSW, 2003 TD6 Vogue - RRC TD Vogue, RRC v8 Fleetline, Disco ES V8 LPG, 101 Ambulance "Morph", 1964 SIIa Auto Powered by Jag 4.2 Lump - "Percy".

I've done the fan heater trick in my van a few times, it's a LWB Vivaro with no bulkhead so when it gets cold, the van is really cold, all the heater does is push the warm air to the back of the van and forces the cold air forward.

Few weeks back I was working in an empty factory unit that had 2 huge gas powered space heaters, reversed the van up to one of them with the back doors open all day, the van was a toasty 20.c ready for the drive home when it was -5 outside. If only I could carry it round with me all winter. 2006 Mercedes CLS
1991 Retro-style Mini
But really finding it hard to fight the urge for a S/C...

M44K TS wrote:

Few weeks back I was working in an empty factory unit that had 2 huge gas powered space heaters, reversed the van up to one of them with the back doors open all day, the van was a toasty 20.c ready for the drive home when it was -5 outside. If only I could carry it round with me all winter.

Overkill?
You can have a air FBH installed (rather than water as in the RR). Both of the big FBH manufacturers, Webasto and Eberspacher, make them. Price for the kit is roughly the same as with a water FBH but the install is generally a bit quicker.

dan_uk_1984 wrote:

And surely if that was the case it would be a cheap oil burner with the FBH fitted as standard anyway!

Ahh, but I pay €1.15/L filling up yesterday, grasshopper. That's GBP 0.97/L at this mornings exchange rate. Full tank only cost me an equivalent of GBP 83.- . If you'd have been at the pump next to me, you'd have payed 1.39 or GBP 1.18 = GBP 118,15 for the same amount of fuel. And LPG is a good 25 km drive out of my way - 50km there and back.  
RRC 2Dr, RRC 4Dr,
P38, and 2 L322s
(wife thinks I'm nuts - prob right, too)