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Since I'm driving my wife's Clarity periodically (2018 with less than 5,000 miles) I'm wondering how to preheat the car more quickly on cold winter morning. Here's an example:
Yesterday we had about a quarter inch of ice on both our vehicles (2017 Volt LT and 2018 Clarity Touring PHEV). I started the precondition on the Clarity and went out about ten minutes later. The cabin was warm but there had been no heat directed at the windshield to warm the ice for scraping. I started the Clarity and put the car in defrost mode when I started to scrape ice. After 20 minutes of scraping I gave up and turned the car off. I turned my Volt on and after five minutes I had the car ice free and the inside was way too hot. Now I know the Volt uses a resistive electric heater so I understand how it gets so hot so fast. My question is how do I get the Clarity to have a more reasonable pre-heat time, especially for the glass?
Note - I used the same ice scraper on both cars.
Yesterday we had about a quarter inch of ice on both our vehicles (2017 Volt LT and 2018 Clarity Touring PHEV). I started the precondition on the Clarity and went out about ten minutes later. The cabin was warm but there had been no heat directed at the windshield to warm the ice for scraping. I started the Clarity and put the car in defrost mode when I started to scrape ice. After 20 minutes of scraping I gave up and turned the car off. I turned my Volt on and after five minutes I had the car ice free and the inside was way too hot. Now I know the Volt uses a resistive electric heater so I understand how it gets so hot so fast. My question is how do I get the Clarity to have a more reasonable pre-heat time, especially for the glass?
Note - I used the same ice scraper on both cars.