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If your car or truck lives in, or used to live in, a cold climate, the prior owner may have installed a block heater to assist with cold weather start-ups, especially if your engine is a Diesel. This heater may be a heated oil dipstick or (preferably) a tube-like heater that is fitted into the lower radiator hose. In severe climates, when you go to the store you pull up, park, stop you engine, get out, plug in your heater to the store-provided outlets, and then go about your business. You also plug-in when your vehicle will be parked overnight.

The vehicle manufacturer may also have provided the block heater if a special "Cold Weather" packaged was opted when the vehicle was first ordered.

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