Just installed Block Heater

Remote start will have a warm car for you faster than a block heater.

If you need a block heater though, you need it. Not remote start.

 

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Ok cool. I though I was going to get a post saying iwas retard becuase I posted that :$. Pretty insightful. With living in a warmer enviroment did not know if one was better than the other.

 

Don't know where U R from. Southern CA or northern CA if U R far enough north, yes. The 6 cy 4.0 has a spot already built in the engine block for the heater. It's so simple and easy why not if it gets below 30F. As others have said you don't have to let the truck idle for ever in the AM.

For those with 2.7 it's a lot more work.

 

Personally I don't bother to plug in my block heater unless the temperature is below 15 deg F.
I also have remote start and to me a block heater is used to keep the oil warm to help with wear when first starting up. I've lived places where it gets colder then -40 and a block heater is almost a necessity. I remember one christmas morning when 7 out of 8 cars wouldn't start because the temp got below -55 F and we had to put spot lights underneath the oil pans to help thin the oil.

At 30 F the oil will have no problems flowing.

I use my remote start almost all the time, not as a benefit to my truck (as idling for several minutes is probably harder on it) but as a benefit to me as my truck is nice and warm/cold when I get in.

Shawn

 

"At 30 F the oil will have no problems flowing." I'm sure you are right but my motor use to tic when it started below 30F so I switched to syn and put on a oil pan heater and no more tic. I ass-u-me the tic is valves - can't be good for the motor. No more tic.

 

My remote start kills the engine if you step on the brake without the key in and turned to ON.

Additionally, if you shift gears with the alarm on, the truck will try to turn off.

That's my belief between the two, too. Block heater to make initial starting nicer, remote start for warming it the rest of the way.