lpickup said:Raza said:1. I did not preheat the car prior to driving. You brought up a good point. I want to have your and OTHERS views as if this has helped in the driving range to preheat the car or not..... and how much has it helped. How long to preheat for 30, 20 and 10 F weather out there
I can't speak to that cold, but I can offer the following suggestion/data points:
1) As difficult as they are to use, if you have a regular schedule, use the Climate Timer. You set your departure time and the car figures out all on its own what time to start the preheat.
2) The other day when I manually preheated in the low 40's, after just 5 minutes the cabin was pretty toasty (it was a last minute trip and I didn't have time to do much preheating). If you're not currently preheating, then I would just start at say 10 minutes at 30 degrees and fine tune it from there.
As for your sound, you said it sounded like the slow-speed VSP but at higher speeds. That's curious to me because at higher speeds the sound of the wind on the car is louder than the VSP sound anyway, so either the sound you are talking about is louder than the VSP (in which case you should probably take it in to get it looked at) or maybe it's just more windy in your area.
Thanks for your detailed reply! I did not use climate control. Is there a difference if I remotely start the climate control through my phone versus going into the car, turning it on and then start the climate control. Which one takes more energy?
It was kinda worse than VSP sound except it made just during the last two days - no wind so I know it is not a wind noise.... I will see if it continues to make that sound... I did not have this issue prior to two days ago when it has been above 32F till then.