| An investment in a few 100, - NOK is enough to take good care of both car, body and environment. An electric engine heater doesn’t cost more, and through pre-heating it reduces engine wear and contributes to a better safeguarding on one of the largest private investments people make, that is the car. In a country like Norway, with large changes in climate and partly very low winter temperatures, an engine heater should be required. An electric engine heater pre-heats the coolant and/or the engine oil, in such a way that demanding cold starts are avoided.
- Temperatures down to minus 10 degrees or lower are not unusual in this country during winter. It speaks for itself that under such conditions a cold start wear disproportionately on the engine, no matter if it is new or older.
When you think about the level on Norwegian car prices, it is a bit strange that not even more people spend a few NOK to avoid the unnecessary wear which diminish the value of the car,- says Per Rune Iversen, Marketing director in DEFA, them Norwegian market leader in Northern Europe.
Iversen points out even more advantages when using an engine heater:
- You save fuel, because this will be unnormally high at the first kilometres after a cold-start. We also know that the emissions from harmful waste-gases is very high on the first minutes after a cold-start, and this today comes to a continuous higher share of the harmful waste-gases comes from car park. You even does something good to the environment and your nab our hood by avoiding cold-starts.
In DEFA we also recommend to use an interior heater along with the engine heater, which secures that you may sit in a warm and cosy car with ice free windows – even if the thermometer is in a bad mood. This way you save the body for the chock getting into a cold car, and even more important: A warm and comfortable driver is a more safe driver than the one who is freezing and works hard to keep himself warm,- says Iversen.
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