Warming Up

[Anonymous]

How long do you guys let your car warm up for? I start mine in the morning, and sometimes i think i let it warm up (the engine revs) too much. I let it get just over the line on the instrument panel. Takes about 10-15 minutes. Does it matter, what car it is? But I hope you guys can shed some light on this.

 

[Anonymous]

Lots of things affect the length of time it takes to achieve operating temp on the engine...

Age, coolant system condition, Choke setting, outside temp, etc...

I found that for me, in mid-winter at 30 degrees it takes about 15-20 minutes to allow the car to warm all the way up so the choke is off and completely open....

I installed a warmer thermostat in winter and cut that down to 12 minutes... in the spring or summer when temps are up it can take as little as 5 minutes.....

Once I rebuild the engine and everything is clean and new I am expecting that to drop quite a bit.... but those are the times I was getting before I tore the engine out...

 

[CobraSix]

I do 5 minutes in the winter, 3 minutes in the summer...for all of our cars, maybe a little more for the 65.

Slade

 

[XFlow_Fairlane]

normally I just start the car in the winter and by the time I clean the windshield and mess with the heater I am good to go. I only give it a couple minutes to warm up before I pull away. I live on a back road so I drive about a mile before I have to wait at a intersection so that is all easy driving to let it warm up all the way. if you wanna get fancy get a oil temp gauge to hook up and see how long it takes to warm the oil up.

nick

 

[Anonymous]

Here in Miami, I start the car and after about a minute or two, the auto choke goes off. Then off and away. Then again..I am in Miami....where I almost never use the heater.

 

[Anonymous]

This past winter, I'd start her up in the morning - then start her up again when it inevitably stalled - then I go inside and go to the bathroom, brush my teeth, wash up, etc. Maybe go upstairs and check my email. Talk to my cat for a little while. Then I get my bag/books/whatever I need for my downtown morning coffee sippin'. Then maybe I shovel the end of the driveway if it requires it. Then I clear the car off, then I get in. Then I wipe/scrape the inside of the back window, sometimes the side windows.

About five minutes after that, the ol' car is just about almost ready to almost go.

I do not miss winter when it goes.