i need some advice on heating up my honda in the cold. I also get frost on the inside of my windows after i start driving.

 

Crack windows a tad, and check your coolant level.

 

and when i crack the windows the, i might as well shut the heat off. Also the coolent leval is good and i have a new themistat in it.

 

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If you crack it slightly you will not feel the cold air come inside. Or buy some anti fog stuff even though it did not work for me, some people have some luck with it.

Did you install the thermostat right ? When is it set to open ? Also what is your coolant mix ?

 

the thermostat is in rightand i am not too sure what the mix is. i just really need to know why the heat isn't very hot.

 

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Well is the thermostat oem ? If not when does it open and close ?

 

i am not sure when it opens and closes and it is just a regular one from the auto parts store

 

So does your engine warm up properly ? Or does it stay on the cold side ?

 

it warms up properly

 

So does it blow properly. Make sure the heater valve is open.

Phil, I'm gonna use your pic and quote you

In the center of the picture outlined in yellow is the
control arm on the heater valve..
Make sure it is moved toward the firewall for heat:

 

ok i went and looked at it and it is as far as it goes to the firewall

 

Have you flushed the system recently ?

 

just this summer i took off the bottom rad. hose and the top one, then i held a water hose on the top rad. hose and water flowed out the bottom rad hose. I am not sure if it would have flushed the heater core or not .

 

put a piece of cardboard over some of the radiator, check for kinks in the heater hoses...


take you girls maxi pad out of the blower motor

just some ideas...

 

it still isn't blowin hot heat

 

maxi pad?

 

bump bec my car is doing the same **** it gets warm but not hoty as i wanted it to be and yes my valve is opened all the way

 

what excalty the maxi pad u talkin abt

 

i am not sure wat is still wrong, but i am thinkin it might be my heater core

 

you most likely got air in the system when you flushed it, you need to open/close up the bleeder valve on the cylinder head and repeat. try to warm the car up by pulling the throttle cable rotor.

good luck

 

does a cloged up heater core cause this

 

well yea it would

i had a heat problem but replacing the thermostat and gasket fixed it right up. My thermostat was stuck open so when I turned on the heat in 20 degree weather it would drain the heat off of the engine and make the heater core not hot. Our engines are very small so heating issues can be felt very easily. Check this to understand what's going on:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cooling-system.htm

good site and mostly accurrate, very general though. But through this and a shop manual that you can pick up you should be able to troubleshoot the heating/cooling system. It's not that complex.

 

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Depends on how clogged up it is. If no coolant is circulating at all then yes, but if its slowly circulating the air will actually be hotter because the hot coolant is not circulating fast.