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My car usually has super hot heat, but all that has changed. I'm
guessing there's an eletric coil that heats up and the air blows over
it before exiting the vents. I was wondering what the techincal name
for this part is, how much it is and how much it's going to cost me.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Leif
urgeintheicebox@NOSPAMgmail.com

Leif Erikson wrote:
> My car usually has super hot heat, but all that has changed. I'm
> guessing there's an eletric coil that heats up and the air blows over
> it before exiting the vents. I was wondering what the techincal name
> for this part is, how much it is and how much it's going to cost me.
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Leif
> urgeintheicebox@NOSPAMgmail.com
>

Lack of cabin heat can be the result of low
engine coolant temperature. Sometimes this
can be caused by a colling system thermostat
that is stuck open. Does your car have a
temperature gauge? If so, is the needle on
that gauge below the "normal" range?

mikey

On 14 Dec 2004 20:38:20 -0800, "Leif Erikson"
<urgeintheicebox@gmail.com> wrote:

>My car usually has super hot heat, but all that has changed. I'm
>guessing there's an eletric coil that heats up and the air blows over
>it before exiting the vents. I was wondering what the techincal name
>for this part is, how much it is and how much it's going to cost me.
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Leif
>urgeintheicebox@NOSPAMgmail.com
>
Cars normally get heat from the coolant used to cool the engine. There
is a mini radiator inside the car called the heater core. The hot
engine coolant flows through the core and air is blown over it and
into the cabin.

If you aren't getting heat a likely cause would be a stuck thermostat,
which would prevent the engine from warming up properly. This should
show up as a low engine temperature. Other possibilites could be that
the heater flap no longer opens when the heater knob is turned (broken
cable) or that your fan no longer works.

Good luck

Are your seat warmers turned on? Maybe that's why you are so hot.


"Leif Erikson" <urgeintheicebox@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My car usually has super hot heat, but all that has changed. I'm
> guessing there's an eletric coil that heats up and the air blows over
> it before exiting the vents. I was wondering what the techincal name
> for this part is, how much it is and how much it's going to cost me.
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Leif
> urgeintheicebox@NOSPAMgmail.com
>

"Leif Erikson" <urgeintheicebox@gmail.com> floridly penned in
news:1103085500.564640.293790@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com:

> My car usually has super hot heat, but all that has changed. I'm
> guessing there's an eletric coil that heats up and the air blows over
> it before exiting the vents. I was wondering what the techincal name
> for this part is, how much it is and how much it's going to cost me.
> Thanks in advance for your help.



Model and year please?

Your problem has several causes, depending on above factors.

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The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ
www.tegger.com/hondafaq/

"TeGGer®" <teggeratistopdotcom@changetheobvious.invalid> wrote in
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> "Leif Erikson" <urgeintheicebox@gmail.com> floridly penned in
> news:1103085500.564640.293790@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com:
>
>> My car usually has super hot heat, but all that has changed. I'm
>> guessing there's an eletric coil that heats up and the air blows over
>> it before exiting the vents. I was wondering what the techincal name
>> for this part is, how much it is and how much it's going to cost me.
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
>
> Model and year please?
>
> Your problem has several causes, depending on above factors.
>

Probably a failed or failing thermostat.

I haven't heard of any Acura with only electric heat,I imagine that only
high-end Acuras would have electric "quick-heat" assist.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net

On 16 Dec 2004 02:25:41 GMT, Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov.> removed the
duct tape and proclaimed:

>I haven't heard of any Acura with only electric heat,I imagine that only
>high-end Acuras would have electric "quick-heat" assist.

I wish. It was -20C here this morning.


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I put 2 and 2 together and got 22.

Jim Yanik <jyanik@abuse.gov.> floridly penned in
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> "TeGGer®" <teggeratistopdotcom@changetheobvious.invalid> wrote in
> news:Xns95C0BBFCCA350teggeratistop@207.14.113.17:
>
>> "Leif Erikson" <urgeintheicebox@gmail.com> floridly penned in
>> news:1103085500.564640.293790@z14g2000cwz.googlegr oups.com:
>>
>>> My car usually has super hot heat, but all that has changed. I'm
>>> guessing there's an eletric coil that heats up and the air blows over
>>> it before exiting the vents. I was wondering what the techincal name
>>> for this part is, how much it is and how much it's going to cost me.
>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Model and year please?
>>
>> Your problem has several causes, depending on above factors.
>>
>
> Probably a failed or failing thermostat.



Not necessarily. Total absence of heat can also be due to problems with the
interior climate controls. A failing thermostat often manifests as
increasingly *poor* heat.


And for the OP, interior heat is derived from the engine's cooling system.
You have a tiny radiator inside the passenger compartment. A fan blows over
the "rad" and sends it, via various tubes and blend doors to where you tell
it to go by the dashboard knobs and switches. The water flow is usually
turned on and off via a valve set into one of the heater hoses.

If the blend doors (or knobs and switches) are not operating correctly, or
if the heater control valve is stuck and not opening, you will get no heat.

One quick check is to warm the car up fully, turn the heater on, and then
under-hood, feel both heater hoses where they go into the firewall. If one
is noticeably cooler than the other, the heater control valve is not moving
to the "on" position.

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If your coolant is mostly water, and freezes, the engine will get
really really hot, and you will have no heat inside the car.

Don't ask.

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I put 2 and 2 together and got 22.

I am surprised that nobody as suggested that the no heat condition can
be due to the low level of the cooling fluid.

Vlad


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:57:37 -0500, Bruno <insert@address.here> wrote:

>If your coolant is mostly water, and freezes, the engine will get
>really really hot, and you will have no heat inside the car.
>
>Don't ask.