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The automotive guy, said I should change oil & filter using synthetic oil every 5k miles to keep her running like butter..
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You can speed up this process by keeping your heater off until the engine is warm as well.
Idling your car is bad, idling the car when cold is worse, 2 minutes is hardly a long time, but if you're doing this stricktly to 'save' your engine, then don't bother, you're much better off doing as recommended above
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Just a note, you're actually best not to let your car idle to warm up. The best way is to start the car, and start driving right away once the idle settles. And just drive slow keeping revs down until the engine reaches operating temperature.
You can speed up this process by keeping your heater off until the engine is warm as well.
Idling your car is bad, idling the car when cold is worse, 2 minutes is hardly a long time, but if you're doing this stricktly to 'save' your engine, then don't bother, you're much better off doing as recommended above
You can speed up this process by keeping your heater off until the engine is warm as well.
Idling your car is bad, idling the car when cold is worse, 2 minutes is hardly a long time, but if you're doing this stricktly to 'save' your engine, then don't bother, you're much better off doing as recommended above
Personally I do the start up, let revs drop and go method and my wife still thinks I'm weird for even doing that. She's one of those that starts it up and goes along with 99.9% of the general public.
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Interesting, what's the reasoning behind not letting your car idle to temperature? Not questioning it, just curious
Personally I do the start up, let revs drop and go method and my wife still thinks I'm weird for even doing that. She's one of those that starts it up and goes along with 99.9% of the general public.
Personally I do the start up, let revs drop and go method and my wife still thinks I'm weird for even doing that. She's one of those that starts it up and goes along with 99.9% of the general public.
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Interesting, what's the reasoning behind not letting your car idle to temperature? Not questioning it, just curious
Personally I do the start up, let revs drop and go method and my wife still thinks I'm weird for even doing that. She's one of those that starts it up and goes along with 99.9% of the general public.
Personally I do the start up, let revs drop and go method and my wife still thinks I'm weird for even doing that. She's one of those that starts it up and goes along with 99.9% of the general public.
Also, most know that idling your engine and starting your engine are two of the worst things for it.
By letting your engine idle when cold, after a cold start, you're combining the two worst things for your engine, with a bad variable, cold temperature.
There's more precise reasoning behing why driving it and keeping under 2k RPM as much as possible is far better than idling when the engine is cold, but I'm likely not the best guy to explain it, and it's kind of irrelevant unless you're realy interested in it.
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Below is a good basic explaination, thanks Theory_EK
We all know heat expands most objects, the alloys/steel etc in your engine bay are no exception. This means when cold, the engine components are undersized, which causes excellerated wear.
Also, most know that idling your engine and starting your engine are two of the worst things for it.
By letting your engine idle when cold, after a cold start, you're combining the two worst things for your engine, with a bad variable, cold temperature.
There's more precise reasoning behing why driving it and keeping under 2k RPM as much as possible is far better than idling when the engine is cold, but I'm likely not the best guy to explain it, and it's kind of irrelevant unless you're realy interested in it.
We all know heat expands most objects, the alloys/steel etc in your engine bay are no exception. This means when cold, the engine components are undersized, which causes excellerated wear.
Also, most know that idling your engine and starting your engine are two of the worst things for it.
By letting your engine idle when cold, after a cold start, you're combining the two worst things for your engine, with a bad variable, cold temperature.
There's more precise reasoning behing why driving it and keeping under 2k RPM as much as possible is far better than idling when the engine is cold, but I'm likely not the best guy to explain it, and it's kind of irrelevant unless you're realy interested in it.