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Originally Posted by Dan
Also, anyone worry about block heater fires?
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Unless you keep a lot of flammable material in your engine compartment, I wouldn't let that keep you from considering one. We have block heaters on each of our cars (2 Insights and a Prius). Even when my block heater cord developed a short, I still had no problems, and wouldn't have even thought about it somehow sparking a fire. However, I'm not sure how much a block heater would help in your case. I haven't used my block heater in the summer with the scangauge attached yet, but I doubt that even in the Prius you would get right up to the 165F threshold.