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Old 01-04-2014, 05:44 PM
Adriel Adriel is offline
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Originally Posted by JB3 View Post
So this morning, needed to be somewhere 8am, jumped in, fired the car up, and backed out, ripping the block heater cord off.

Especially ironic as I've been nagging the wife endlessly about not doing that with her car, and of course I'm the one to do it.

I want to rig something up so that if the same thing might happen, its a bit more robust and the cord just pulls out of the plug, not the wires break. Next project to begin
Came too close, so now what I do since she is in the garage, is leave the hood fully up. Another way be to put a sticky note on the windshield. Eventually you might learn to have a start up procedure.
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