Students Told to Plug in Portable Car Heater!
I have a Google Alert for all portable car heater news, and I thought you might get a kick out of this one. We've talked on this site about how rough it is to find yourself--as a consumer--in the dilemma of having a non-functioning built-in car heater. And how, obviously, a portable car heater is NOT an optimal solution. But it's good in a pinch--just to get you through.
Can you imagine running a driving school and telling your students, "Hey the car heater isn't working--so just defrost the windows with this handy plugin portable car heater. It's great driving experience for every teenager!"
Ummmmm, not okay.
Not too surprisingly, the school shut down not long after students reported back to their parents about that lame portable car heater advice.
Here's the little blurb from the news article: it's kind of funny.
''The cars started breaking down often, sometimes the brakes went bad, bad steering, bad tires and no heat,'' Prebynski said. ''When the manager said to buy a portable heater and plug it in the cigarette lighter to provide heat and told us the poor condition of the cars could be good experience for the drivers, I knew it was time to go.''
From http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/99692334.html
While I think portable car heaters are great devices, I cannot imagine allowing a new driver to go out in a car with a nonworking heater. Let alone to LEARN to drive on a car without proper defrostig.
Yike.
If you found this article because you're looking for a portable car heater, by the way, you've come to the right place. You can get some great recommendations from my home page--and you can also get ideas for alternatives to plug-in car heaters.
Alternatives like...
- Heated car seat covers
- Electric garage heaters
- Direct wire car heaters (portable auto heaters that connect directly to the car battery rather than going through the lighter socket).
Just do me a favor and don't tell your student driver a bunch of plug-in car heaters will make them better drivers!
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