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Old 09-24-2013, 12:11 AM
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I have a zerostart tank heater on my Jetta, it works well. But one problem is that if I only run it for an hour on a cold day it warms the coolant around the coolant temp sensor but not the block, so the glow plugs won't run and it has a hard time starting.

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