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Default De-icing the car or van with an electric fire

On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 1:07:29 PM UTC, Andrew wrote:
On 11/12/2017 22:01, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 11/12/2017 18:00, Bill Wright wrote:
It works rather well. I have the fire on the lowest setting (1kW) and
leave it on a board on the seat for 20 minutes. It's worth the fourpence.

Bill


Electric?Â* A real man uses a real fire.

Cheers


Indeed. What you need is one of those paraffin sump heaters
that Halfords showed in their 1965 catalogue.

Or a VW 411 combi-estate with the auxiliary *petrol* powered
heater.


Om further thought gat a cab heater as used in lorries which run off diesel