My name is John, I am new here. I drive a 2020 3500 Ram pickup. It is equipped with cold weather block heater. The temperature over night was only in the low 40s but I had it plugged in. I started it this morning and the temperature was already warm so I drove off having idled for only a few minutes. It drove like there was very little communication between the gas peddle and the throttle. it did this for about five minutes then everything started working properly. Has anyone experienced something like this? Is this a precursor to something worse?
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You don't need the block heater for 40F temps.
You don't need to let it idle long. In fact, excess idle is bad for these. You could even press the start button twice to cancel the grid heater start cycle. It will cycle on if it needs to after start.
Just let it idle maybe 15-20 seconds after start and drive reasonably until it warms some.
Block heater is 750W, it only takes a maximum of 90 minutes to full warm the engine at negative temps. No need to pay for the juice all night, not worth the squeeze.
