quick question about leaving the car in idle

padma

If I leave the car idling for over an hour, will it do any damage?

How much petrol would it use? 1 litre? etc?

New job doing security and will be sitting in the car for the night, so want to keep warm. Thinking maybe to turn it on for a half hour to warm up the cabin, then when it gets cold again, to turn it back on. On and off throughout the night

qhe0i9zvfgdou8

What about something like this.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/PORTABLE-TRAVEL-HEATER-COOLER-DEFROSTER/dp/B005PW8UA0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366993912&sr=8-1&keywords=portable+car+heater

dgt

Provided the cooling system is working properly I can't see any issues. We have a petrol Land Rover FFR, it would be left on in missions to generate power for radios.

Same story with FFR's in the df, could be left running for days to power radios. Again no problems there

wardy2

padma wrote: »

If I leave the car idling for over an hour, will it do any damage?

How much petrol would it use? 1 litre? etc?

New job doing security and will be sitting in the car for the night, so want to keep warm. Thinking maybe to turn it on for a half hour to warm up the cabin, then when it gets cold again, to turn it back on. On and off throughout the night

I doing security myself at the moment and some sites I do stay in my car over night .what I do is I switch my car on every hour and half for 20min but I does use up a lot of petrol over night....

padma

Its had a new timing belt and water pump with new coolant in last month, so shouldn't be problematic on that front.

I suppose two or three litres of petrol would be grand as a trade off for a bit of heat.

That fan blower thing above has bad reviews.

Kenny Logins

I hope your exhaust is in good condition..

padma

Kenny Logins wrote: »

I hope your exhaust is in good condition..

It can be a bit smoky, but on the edge of a fail, according to the last two NCT's anyway. What could happen if it's not in so good a condition?

Kenny Logins

padma wrote: »

It can be a bit smoky, but on the edge of a fail, according to the last two NCT's anyway. What could happen if it's not in so good a condition?

You die.

padma

Kenny Logins wrote: »

You die.

Ah I see :pac:

Atlantic Dawn

padma wrote: »

It can be a bit smoky, but on the edge of a fail, according to the last two NCT's anyway. What could happen if it's not in so good a condition?

Carbon monoxide poisining risk perhaps.

Kenny Logins

..seriously though, if fumes that would normally be blown away when driving can slowly seep into the car you may not notice it.

alpaca_man

On a petrol is would probably be ok.

Diesels do not like idling though as the bores can glaze up making the engine smoky. This would require extended running at itle.

If is is not to bad glazing, a good thrash usually breaks up the glaze.

I used to work on location filming sets where the generator was often running at little or no load and eventually began smoking and spitting oil out the exhaust.
It was later put on a heavy load powering arc lights on a night time shoot and that seemed so solve the problem and cleaned it up.

Now that's a good thrash resolving glazing in a genny, a car with DPFs and EGRs to get clogged up and all that sh!te might bring other problems with it.

mgbgt1978

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Carbon monoxide poisining risk perhaps.

Don't catalytic convertors (combined with unleaded petrol) convert carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide ?

Surely the "almost NCT fail" is just a small bit of burnt oil.

padma

Having the dinner now with a tin of beans, so I guess I'll be rolling the ould window down a bit on and off throughout the night.

padma

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Don't catalytic convertors (combined with unleaded petrol) convert carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide ?

Surely the "almost NCT fail" is just a small bit of burnt oil.

The almost NCT fail probably down to needing an Italian tune up. The NCT in Ballysimon is only around the corner from me so, those two times Engine wouldn't have been the hottest, but yes a small bit of smoke, nothing major no grey, or blue smoke or anything.

Del2005

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Don't catalytic convertors (combined with unleaded petrol) convert carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide ?

Surely the "almost NCT fail" is just a small bit of burnt oil.

You can die just as easily with CO2 as CO, anything which displaces the O2 in an enclosed space will lead to asphyxiation.