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The real funny part about the temperature here is that its supposed to
be -2C on Sunday.

I may try another dealer.

Thanks for the reply.

t

On Jan 14, 10:22*pm, Tegger <inva...@invalid.inv> wrote:
> loewent <loew...@gmail.com> wrote in news:0fd0771f-d87b-448a-85aa-
> 2e472abaf...@t11g2000yqg.googlegroups.com:
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> <snip>
>
>
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> > Has anyone else experienced this problem? *Anything I am missing here?
>
> > Thanks
> > Terry in Winnipeg
>
> -35C is -31F. That is awfully cold. Still, if you can't get decent heat
> after 15 miles of driving, I think you have a defective thermostat.
>
> Rather than fooling with this yourself, your dealer should replace the
> thermostat under the warranty that you are still very much within.
>
> You paid for that warranty as part of the purchase price of your car, so
> use it.
>
> If the dealer gives you the runaround, call Honda Canada directly. The
> phone number is in your warranty manual. In case you can't locate that, the
> number is 1-888-946-6329. Their hours are 8 to 7:30 eastern time.
>
> My mama grew up in Winnipeg (West Kildonan), and she has told me horror
> stories of the cold out there!
> My wife's mother was born in Alberta. It's even COLDER there. She was an
> elementary school teacher (retired last year). Yard duty at 40-below is no
> fun at all. That's right, the kids were in the schoolyard through recess
> even at 40-below.
>
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"Michael Pardee" <null@null.org> wrote in
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> "Iowna Uass" <iownauass@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ZpIbl.22533$H12.7755@newsfe12.iad...
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>> "loewent" <loewent@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:aa889579-17a9-4dc2-9718-b495ba039f9d@m2g2000vbp.googlegroups.com.
>> .. The real funny part about the temperature here is that its
>> supposed to be -2C on Sunday.
>>
>> I may try another dealer.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> t
>>
>> The dealers in Winnipeg suck. Give Harvest Honda in Steinbach a call.
>> They've always been good to me.
>> As for the heat issue, have you tried using recirculate on the
>> heater? It'll help warm up quicker in the cold weather, but has the
>> tendancy to fog the windows if left on too long.
>>
>> I have to agree with Tegger on the thermostat, you could have a dud.
>> I hope you get the temperature issue rectified.
>>
>>
> Add my opinion to that. You can put your hand on the radiator hoses
> when the temp guage should be up but isn't. If you have one warm hose
> that clinches it: the thermostat isn't doing its job.



If the thermostat is stuck open in a modern cooling system, both hoses can
still feel hot. A stuck-open thermostat means the engine will run WAY cool.
Cool running also means the transmission may not go into top gear and may
also refuse to lock up the torque converter.



>
> I had a thermostat stick open about a millimeter once. The car (a 1970
> Volvo) refused to warm up. A new thermostat was like magic.
>




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loewent <loewent@gmail.com> wrote in
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>
> Thermostat changed. All seems much better. a 7km highway run that
> usually yielded no change in the coolant temp gauge at -20C got to
> full warmup temperature.



Good news! Thanks for the update.


>
> The invoice from the dealer said thermostat was stuck open.



Which is the ONLY cause of this overcooling.

There is no possible way a properly-functioning engine can fail to warm up
unless the thermostat is bad.




> The
> service advisor also said that whenever he had done a thermostat on a
> 06-09 civic, Honda ALWAYS asks for the parts back.



Like I said before, there's surely a TSB coming soon.



> I shot back asking
> why he said it wouldn't make a difference,



He probably doesn't really understand what the thermostat actually does.



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