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TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts) Mon Dec 26, 2022, 08:10 PM Dec 2022

MrSubaru1387: The New Debate! To Warm Or Not To Warm Up Your Engine? Is It A Question Or Bunk?!

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MrSubaru1387: The New Debate! To Warm Or Not To Warm Up Your Engine? Is It A Question Or Bunk?! (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Dec 2022 OP

Good vid. Thanks for this. As an aside, if LuckyCharms Dec 2022 #1

"Driving off after 30 seconds" SharonClark Dec 2022 #2

He could distill that down to about 3 minutes. If 2 words will do, he uses 10. Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2023 #3

Thanks for this TBA Submariner Jan 2023 #4

I don't idle very long, not even in cold weather. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2023 #5

LuckyCharms

(17,444 posts)

1. Good vid. Thanks for this. As an aside, if

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Mon Dec 26, 2022, 09:46 PM

Dec 2022

that Snap-On tool chest system behind him is as big as I think it is...that thing is big bucks. Probably at least $30,000.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

2. "Driving off after 30 seconds"

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Mon Dec 26, 2022, 10:22 PM

Dec 2022

What a joke. It takes longer than that to unfreeze the door, remove the snow and ice from the windshields, and make the interior warm enough to tolerate.

Some of us don’t have usable garages and we live in the north. I’ll keep warming up my car when I need to.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,355 posts)

3. He could distill that down to about 3 minutes. If 2 words will do, he uses 10.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2023, 06:09 PM

Jan 2023

Submariner

(12,504 posts)

4. Thanks for this TBA

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Mon Jan 2, 2023, 08:36 AM

Jan 2023

The remote starter on my Outback installed by Subaru didn’t come with any warning to not warm up my engine. This video settles the issue for me.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)

5. I don't idle very long, not even in cold weather.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Mon Jan 2, 2023, 08:50 AM

Jan 2023

It's faster to warm up the vehicle while driving it, at low speeds. (Just don't immediately drive at high RPM's when everything is still cold.) I live near the intersection of I-70 and I-75, but I'm "deep" in a residential area where I can creep along at low speeds until the car reaches normal operating temperature. Seems to work well for me. Sometimes I'll idle longer if the windows keep hazing-over from frost in this high-humidity area.

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