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rburt07 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-22-2007, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by skywagon

I decided to call a North Dakota Toyota dealer. I found thats normal for a very cold day even if the block heater had been plugged in for hours. I also was told the 'new' block heaters don't work unless the outside temperature is at zero or below. Toyota found out the block heaters were fooling the cars computer. It was causing the engine not to fully warm up the catalytic converter.

Total bull crap. I have plugged mine in at 20 above temps and it makes the engine warm to the touch in an hour so I know they work well above o degrees. Stealers are better stealing from your wallet than giving out accurate info.

The shop foreman said, new block heaters. Could be he means those coming out on the 2008 models won't work till the temp is below zero degrees. I did not ask if the over the counter block heaters were that way.

Mine also heats the engine at any temperature. So far I have used it down to 30 degrees. I wanted to know just how hot the engine should be after a few hours of being plugged in. At 30 degrees the engine is hot to the touch but the scan gauge reads it at 100-125 degrees.. Thats about 1/4 scale on the temp gauge on my TCH. Using the BH on a 50 deg day the engine temp will read about 150 degrees.