So , after you turn the engine on , do you start the car right ahead or wait a bit so that the temperature can rise up a bit????I' ve been told that if you repeatedly start the car with a cold engine, like after being parked for the whole night , it will consume bigger amounts of oil!(burning oil..)
Wait a minute or two or not????
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Wait a minute or two or not????
If the weather is cold I put 1 blue key in the ignition (after getting through the wall of ice named a 'door'), turn the ignition on and set the heaters up if needed. I then lock the door with another key and set to work scraping it. If I don't need to scrape then I just get in and drive.
engines need to looked after till warm, but letting it warm by idling is not all that good for it either. so i start the car and then keeps revs low till it's warmed up.
i dont have a temp guage or a rev counter
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Definitely getting in and driving slowly up through the gears is the best way to warm up your car, as letting it idle is just pumping thick, cold oil around for longer, creating wear.
This one I get in and drive 
I used to have a derv and that I was more careful with due to tales of dodgy turbos
I used to have a derv and that I was more careful with due to tales of dodgy turbos I wait about 30 seconds or so before driving mainly because it's crap when cold and would probably stall, then drive the car but not to take it above around 2000rpm
Yep same here, only difference being the stall would probably be my fault, I have to be warm to drive properly
Wait 1 minutes for the turbo to warm up
sitting idling isn't gonna heat a turbo up much.. also, takes an age for the engine to heat up at idle thus longer times spent running cold. So i drive with revs down until car is warm, if no guage for temp like in my sei turbo then i have set places around my house where i know the car will be upto temp/when hot air comes out the vents as really hot then its warm lol. Only time i don't drive straight off is when car needs de-icing
yes mate lolbetter wait 2 minutes
I've always driven all my cars straight from cold, but gently - and now I have a JTD I don't even need to touch the throttle to go through the gears from standstill to 30mph
By the time I'm out of town, she's warm anyway.
I do agree with the "warm up the turbo" sentiments - but sitting at idle will do very little imho, must be better to drive but stay off boost.
By the time I'm out of town, she's warm anyway.
I do agree with the "warm up the turbo" sentiments - but sitting at idle will do very little imho, must be better to drive but stay off boost.
my stilo jtd takes an age to warm up if you use no throttle, as soon as the turbo spins though its warm, cooling down period for the turbo is much more important than warming period.
I've always driven all my cars straight from cold, but gently - and now I have a JTD I don't even need to touch the throttle to go through the gears from standstill to 30mph
By the time I'm out of town, she's warm anyway.
I do agree with the "warm up the turbo" sentiments - but sitting at idle will do very little imho, must be better to drive but stay off boost.
Now if your car's anything like my ex-derv, that's just going to make the drivetrain vibrate and I think it contributed to the death of my clutch/ flywheel. So you want low revs but not too low :bang:
Not detected any excess vibration by pulling away on idle, the up to 30mph and no throttle bit was a slight exaggeration (yes, really!!) but I do tend to move off from standstill at idle before touching the throttle a moment later - and am certainly very gentle until she's warm.
But I'm sure you're right and vibration is the killer of many a dual mass flywheel.
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When it's frosty, I have no choice but to leave it idling until there is enough heat to defrost the windows.
Otherwise, I just start the car, check my surroundings and then drive off, keeping it slow and smooth until the coolant is warm. I hav no temp guage so I just set the heaters to hot and then I know when it is up to temperature.
Otherwise, I just start the car, check my surroundings and then drive off, keeping it slow and smooth until the coolant is warm. I hav no temp guage so I just set the heaters to hot and then I know when it is up to temperature.
you know it'd prob heat up faster if you didn't have the heaters on full blast
I used this tactic with my 899 cinq years back but i just used to leave it on cold and then turn it up and check if it was hot then turn it down again..
I used this tactic with my 899 cinq years back but i just used to leave it on cold and then turn it up and check if it was hot then turn it down again..
I just drive it as normal. I dont usually rev the ****** out my car on the road anyway and can feel when its warm enough to give it some (the turbo spools much quicker...)
in all fairness modern oils as long as in good condition dont need any kind of warm up.
sooner the engine and oil is up to the right temperature the better
in all fairness modern oils as long as in good condition dont need any kind of warm up.
sooner the engine and oil is up to the right temperature the better
