Heat accumulator - anyone !?

[PWM]

Hi , again ..

It's getting cold .. and oil pan heater is difficult to find !

So now I am kind of scanning the possibilities for the heat.
BMW seems to have heat / thermal accumulator as an option. They claim that it's able to keep the heat as long as four days in -40C !! Then it should have the hot water circulating in 30 seconds !! Hmm.. could be very nice with a block heater

(..to 'charge' the accu !!)

So have you tried one of these - And where to get one !?

 

[mickey]

I don't know where to get a "heat accumulator" but you should be able to order the oil pan heater from any VW dealer. (At least the ones in Canada.)

-mickey

 

[Karl Roenick]

This has been talked about before, but I don't anything came of it. Somebody also mentioned a timed car heater that ran off of diesel, but it was expensive - like for limos, or something. You could try the search function.

 

[CFriedriszik]

Wärmespeicher is German for heat accumulator: http://www.auto-holzer.de/Teilezub/Katalog/Waerme/right(2).htm
Company who does several makes: http://www.waermespeicher.com/einbau.htm

They work like a thermo can. Some of the heat of the coolant is stored in some medium (like some salt/water mixture) on shutoff and released when starting again. Won´t help starting up, but heats the engine quickly without additional cost.

Passat can be done easily, see Auto Holzer link above

 

[CFriedriszik]

Seperate diesel driven heaters are provided by the following companies: http://www.eberspaecher.de/de/heiz/heiz.htm
and http://www.webasto.de/deutsch/a_home.htm

 

[PWM]

Hi !!

Yes I could try to get the oil pan heater from the official VAG - If I only could find the order code for 230V european version (I'm from Finland) !! .. The VAG-guys did find a picture of it but no order code or anything !!

And yes I'm also looking for eber and webasto - but they are a bit expensive .. about 1kUSD and up .. (Even found a local dealer !!)

I could even make my own heat accumulator if I find enought information

So still scanning the options ..

And thanks for the links !!