How long for your heater to warm up...

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My heater seems to take ages to get hot, most of my previous cars start getting warm after 5mins, the TD5 seems to take about 15mis and thats just to get warm not hot!
 
I wish! Mine is Diesel but Id say a good 10 miles before i get heat. I know when I was younger I had a thermostat prob and removed it from one of my cars....wondering if someones done the same...
 
Take the engine viscous fan off for the winter, helps warm up a bit. Done mine, no problems with engine temp even tugging two horses uphill in 2nd/3rd gear.........
 
If you have Clinate Control rather than A/C it will not start blowing any air until the Engine is up to temp. However i find that if i put it on demist it blows out warm air quicker.
 
I suppose it depends on how cold it is to start with, how long you run the engine whilst clearing the windows, what sort of journey it is (pootling around estate roads or on a main road) and suchlike things. But the TD5 is a fairly big lump, so whatever, it's going to take a while for it to warm up.

You could buy one of those blow heaters that plug into the cigar lighter and give instant heat, I suppose. Or rig up a remote engine start so it warms up while you're still scoffing breakfast. I bet someone on here has done that. Probably more trouble than it's worth though for most people.
 
Did own a td5 (02 plate) and don't remember it being luke warm, thought it got warm enough. Saying that the P38 RR I have now is warm within 1 minute and gets very hot inside, even on the coldest day, BUT it is the V8 4.6 petrol! Seems the petrol version get hotter in general and warmer quicker than the diesel.
 
My TD5 has the fan removed and takes about 10min to blow warm with stop start driving. Id did take about 5min but since I removed the EGR it takes longer.
 
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