Bunk Heater in -40

ahhh yes, I had a couple LT's also. Both had the Factory EPU setup, with the dual bunk/coolant heaters. Thats the only thing I miss about those trucks, park, arm the auto start, set the heat on the dash controls (controlled the front webasto) set the heat on the rear controls (for the bunk webasto) and enjoy a nice cozy sleep for as long as you wanted. If the engine got to cold for whatever reason, or the batteries ran down (never happened with all those cells for the AC) the truck would just fire up, do its thing and shut down. When I got my Volvo 760, with just a stand alone bunk Webasto (not tied into anything) it felt like going back 15 years in technology.

 

Yea those prostars had the big Webasto evo 40, and the Espar engine heaters were really good also. Like I posted above, kinda the exception to the rule those trucks.

 

After further deep thought, if you got the big Espar's, for both the bunk (can be retrofitted to work with the factory volvo controls) and the stand alone engine heater. With some power service white bottle, I would prob give -40'c a try, as long as I had good batteries (Caterpillar).

 

Honestly when you hit -30 or colder you'd be crazy to not run the engine IMO. Its the cost of working in the cold.

 

For the price of a few gallons of fuel I just run the truck when it gets that cold.The cost of the fuel is a lot less then a service call to get you going again.

 

Every winter I see guys trying to get truck fired in the morning on those minus 30 plus nights. Often they need to be towed into a warm shop for a few hours which runs up a bill if you’re not in your yard.

 

I'm surprised there aren't more reports of truckers freezing to death inside those things, with them new epic emissions engines

 

Yea I get it, just anything after -28'c I think its just time to idle lol.

 

But where's the fun in that?