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best way to warm a minivan ? - andypie48 - 10-20-2009
I'm sleeping in it at a festival and its going to be cold. don't need CO poisoning, no hookup available.
Yeah, i've go a warm sleeping bag, but i'm getting old and cranky.
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - Markintosh - 10-20-2009
Hookers and booze!
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - OWC Jamie - 10-20-2009
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We used a tent heater with the windows open in our younger days when runnning up to Cape Elizabeth to visit the 'friendly' young ladies, in Winter.
The anti-freeze probably helped, too.
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - Markintosh - 10-20-2009
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Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - jardster - 10-20-2009
Dutch oven.
If you have to ask, you don't want to know.
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - cbelt3 - 10-20-2009
This will sound a bit weird, but hang a small tent inside it and sleep in the tent. or a bivy sack.
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - freeradical - 10-20-2009
Make sure you have a foam pad to sleep on.
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - Speedy - 10-20-2009
I strongly second this:
freeradical wrote:
Make sure you have a foam pad to sleep on.
Easy to keep warm topside with lots of sleeping bags/blankets. But most any bag/blanket will compress in the night, even on a mattress, and you will get cold. But a foam pad will insulate you quite well. I've used sleeping bags and a good pad down to -20F.
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - Filliam H. Muffman - 10-20-2009
It depends on how much trouble and risks you are willing to deal with.
I think the biggest heat losses in a minivan are windows and exposed metal frame parts. cbelt3's suggestion is pretty good. An alternative might be to get a roll of the reflective bubble wrap and line the windows.
I don't know a lot about heaters for campers and RV's, is there a small safe heater a relatively tightly sealed environment?
Re: best way to warm a minivan ? - davester - 10-20-2009
Reflective bubble wrap is only good for reflecting radiant heat. It's works only at high temperatures. When its cold there isn't going to be anything to reflect so it will be close to useless.
Thick foam pad (preferably thermarest but they're pricey) and lots of blankets/good sleeping pad on top will work. Definitely don't use an airbed unless you have a foam pad on top of it. Airbeds circulate the heat away from your body very quickly.