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Originally Posted by bermis519
Are you saying it's hard to get air to move out of the vents, or takes a long time for your vehicle to reach operating temperatures. Once it's at operating temp, is the air hot, or warm. Basically I'm getting at a possible thermostat problem.
Just something simple, easy and a cheap part to rule out.
Mike
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I have a '99 Grand Am with the 3.4 and the heater always got hot faster then any car I ever had, Until recently that is. The intake has the typical slow leak coolant that is prone to this particular engine and I have put off fixing it. Well anyways the "low coolant" light wopuld always remind me when it was getting time to add anti-freeze. This fall/winter the warning light does not appear to work any more and I noticed that the heater wastaking forever to warm up. I checked the coolant level and it was wasy low. I added apprx 3/4 gal of fluid and wallaw the heater blows hot real quick, within 5 minutes of starting cold car. (temp gauge at 100* or so) Before the added fluid it would not blow consistent hot air for 15 minutes and 190-200* engine temp...