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#1 ·
Do you let your car sit to "warm up" before you start driving?
 
#38 ·
You really only need to let it warm up until the point where the RPM's drop to the normal idle speed. My 200 starts at ~1200RPM and drops to ~800 RPM. Anything after that and your just wasting gas, you car will reach operating temps much faster under load that sitting at idle for any length of time.
 
#39 ·
I agree agree with you.

Loading an engine will warm it up to normal op temp faster, and that's all good, but a light load is preferred. Also, a turbo car is more suseptible to these rules, only becasue anything other than a "light load" will induce boost. Boosting a cold engine is doubly bad, imo.

Oh, and ... lol, @ whoever said warming up your engine is bad for it...

Oooookaaaaaaay...
 
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