Radiant heat bad for car paint?

[buenrostrox]

I've heard that installing a radiant natural gas heater can be just as bad for your car paint as sitting in the sun. Can't find any info online to substantiate those claims. Thoughts?

 

[pseudorealityx]

Doubtful IMO. Radiant heaters are sending more of their 'light' out in the form of infrared light. There's obviously some visible because the thing glows orange, and there's likely some UV as well, but likely not like the Sun.

Given that they bake the finishes on a lot of metal things, cars included, in big ovens with radiant gas heaters, I'm thinking it's not that awful.

Again, just a semi-educated guess.

 

[nehog]

AFAIK, most of the sun damage is UV light (not IR that the heater puts out).

 

[metaleltr]

Cant be any worse than this used to cure automotive paint

Edit let me know if you see the picture. not showing up for me

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[rsanter]

Not for sure but I suspect that eventually it could cause harm to the paint....over a very long time
You should run a test and let us know in 10 years how it came out

Bob

 

[gasaxeman]

My in floor radiant heat took the paint right off my 31 model A and made it rust and look like it was a 83 yr old jalopy.......

 

[nehog]

My in floor radiant heat took the paint right off my 31 model A and made it rust and look like it was a 83 yr old jalopy.......

Without pictures it is so hard to say if it looks 83 years old, or not! But if necessary I have a 1931 Popular Mechanics magazine with instructions on how to paint your own car. The writeup assumes brush only!

 

[pseudorealityx]

AFAIK, most of the sun damage is UV light (not IR that the heater puts out).

The heater, like almost anything puts out a range of different wavelengths of light. For an IR heater, it's mostly IR. But there's also visible, UV, and probably some other stuff mixed in at low levels.

 

[gasaxeman]

Without pictures it is so hard to say if it looks 83 years old, or not! But if necessary I have a 1931 Popular Mechanics magazine with instructions on how to paint your own car. The writeup assumes brush only!

I was being a smart ***.
Found this as it is. Parked since the 50's the story goes.
But you can clearly see the effects of the in floor radiant heat.......Just kidding.

 

[BadgerBoilerMN]

Not likely. But radiant floor heating is more efficient and more comfortable as are radiant walls and radiant ceilings.

 

[ahkim]

Rather than start a new thread, I'll add a similar question, I'm wondering if sudden temp changes are bad for car paint? If I go with a radiant tube heater, it'll be pointed towards the cars and I assume the hood could warm up to 90* or more. In MN, 0* temps are not uncommon; so I could see my car paint going dropping 80-100* in a matter of minutes, I can't imagine that's good. Thoughts?

 

[stikman56]

Rather than start a new thread, I'll add a similar question, I'm wondering if sudden temp changes are bad for car paint? If I go with a radiant tube heater, it'll be pointed towards the cars and I assume the hood could warm up to 90* or more. In MN, 0* temps are not uncommon; so I could see my car paint going dropping 80-100* in a matter of minutes, I can't imagine that's good. Thoughts?

My worry there would be plastic body filler, not the paint. JMO

 

[sands35]

I used to live in Phoenix. I melted a little garage door opener because I forgot to crack the windows and hadn't installed window tint yet. It was warped and distorted. I'd guess the car paint was north of 150*F or higher in the summer sun. The car was fine.

Some how I don't think a radiant tube heater is going to damage car paint.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Some how I don't think a radiant tube heater is going to damage car paint.

I seem to recall in a previous thread that someone mentioned that they blistered the paint on a car with a radiant heater.

Charles

 

[ahkim]

Sands35 - that's a good point that the sun in southern US bakes the paint to a high heat, but what if you took that paint then suddenly dropped it to 0? As you said, the paint can take the high heat, even for a long period of time, but I'm concerned about the rapid change. Are there others in the MN, WI, MI, etc that park their cars under the heater?

 

[FFRKing]

I just started using a radiant tube heater this year. I keep it at 45* constantly and turn it up when I go out to work in the shop. With it running on high for 15 minutes or more, the plastic bed rails on my 2000 F150 are just slightly more than cool.
I would have to see actual pictures or hear directly from someone who had issues with blistered paint before I would believe any of the stories that are always going around.
My heater is a Re-Verber-Ray 50,000/75,000 20 foot and the tube is about 6 feet above the bed rails of my truck.

Chris

 

[chopperguy01]

Rather than start a new thread, I'll add a similar question, I'm wondering if sudden temp changes are bad for car paint? If I go with a radiant tube heater, it'll be pointed towards the cars and I assume the hood could warm up to 90* or more. In MN, 0* temps are not uncommon; so I could see my car paint going dropping 80-100* in a matter of minutes, I can't imagine that's good. Thoughts?

I also live in MN, have had a ceiling mounted radiant heater for about 12 years now and haven't seen or had any paint issues on my vehicles during that time.


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[ishiboo]

I seem to recall in a previous thread that someone mentioned that they blistered the paint on a car with a radiant heater.

Charles

I would think your skin working at/near the car would be in pretty bad shape, if a radiant heater on the ceiling blistered your cars paint.

 

[jvitez]

I would think your skin working at/near the car would be in pretty bad shape, if a radiant heater on the ceiling blistered your cars paint.

 

[brycez28]

I seem to recall in a previous thread that someone mentioned that they blistered the paint on a car with a radiant heater.

Charles

I think this was the case when they raised their vehicle on the lift, which put the roof inches from the heater.