Generally, you need to find a freeze plug that is easy to get to, remove/destroy the freeze plug and install the block heater. Before you try to do all of that, make sure you have the right size freeze plug and everything that you need to install it. Generally, there is a bolt that tightens the freeze plug into the block. If you follow the included directions, it's reasonably straight-forward. If that sounds a little too involved, try an in-line coolant heater that connects to either a radiator hose or a heater hose, depending on what you get.
It's a BLOCK heater, not a radiator heater. It goes in the engine block, most of the time it goes where a freeze out plug is. You have to remove freeze plug to install it.
drain coolant from radiator, remove one of the frost plugs in engine block, install block heater in place of frost plug, refill radiator with coolant.
Most are in the freeze plugs and require special tools and know how.
To normally install a block heater you must remove an expanstion/ freeze plug in tighten in the block heater. The 6 cylinder 4.2L engine unfortunately does not appear to have any such plugs. The V8 engine should have a screw in style block heater installed in the left front of the engine block just below the cylinder head.
Drain coolant from radiator and engine block Remove passenger's side rear freeze plug and replace with block heater kit
Do you mean where on a car is a block heater install or who do you take the car to to install?
where is the engin block heater on a 2007 Ion
Remove and engine block expansion plug. Insert the block heater. Seal the block heater. Attached the wiring harness to the block heater.
Install block heater in lower rad hose .
That particular make and model of car does not have a block heater!
Begin by training the water from your 2003 engine block. Remove the wiring harness from the block heater. Remove the block heater retaining bolts. The block heater will come out. Reverse the process to install your new block heater.
In the block you knock out a freeze plug and install it. There is also a magnetic one that you can attach to the block if it is iron.