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Posted on Mar 02, 2015

Why does fan come on right away before heater warms up?

The heater is suppose to preheat to temperature. Then the fan is to come on. On mine the fan comes on right away. Then heater starts to heat up and eventually blow warm air.

  • graybeard32301 Mar 02, 2015

    Hi mksrnels, I want to help you with your question, but I need more information from you. Can you please add details in the comment box? Would you ever so kindly post the make, model, and year?

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What you describe is true for many home heaters, but maybe not true very often for cars. For most cars - especially older ones, the fan speed is independent of the engine temperature, and the heater will not "blow warm" until the engine has warmed up. There are also many new cars that let you set a temperature, and then automatically change the fan as appropriate. Those have many different behaviors, but in order for others to provide help I think it might be helpful if you said which model and year car you were asking about.

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