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Block heater
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:44 PM
This is just sorta random... I backed into my parking space at work today, and when I went out to my car for lunch, I found a black cord with a 3-pronged plug (like you'd plug into a wall socket) sticking out from under my car. When I grabbed it, I realized that it was attached to my car, and it took me a second to figure what it was. Needless to say, it was rather beaten-up from being dragged along as I drove. Apparently, the cord had been stuffed up inside the engine bay, and finally rattled loose from all my driving. My car was originally Canadian-market, but I live in Texas and a block heater isn't something I ever thought to look for. It was kinda funny because it was about 95*F out today...
Anyway, the whole point of this is: what do I do with it? It looks kinda crappy having a beat-up electrical cord attached to the back of my engine just lying in my engine bay, and I have no use for it. Besides, it seems like another thing to go wrong with my car. Can I just take this whole thing out of my car, or is it like, inside my engine? I haven't gotten a chance to really look it over. any advise is welcome...

Re: Block heater
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:51 PM
lol wow what a find. If you can't figure out how to take it off and if it's not too much in your way I'd just leave it. Where in TX are you?




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Re: Block heater
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:37 AM
roll it up and ziptie it



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Re: Block heater
Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:39 PM
If youre never going to use it, and the cord is too ugly in the engine bay... why not whack off the cord at the base?
Re: Block heater
Thursday, June 14, 2007 7:44 PM
It most likely is installed in place of a freeze plug. Messing with uninstalling it could give you a coolant leak if you are not able to get the replacment freeze plug installed correctly.. I would follow the advice of the guys above.

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