Drive COLD or WARM?

kannibul · 03-03-2010, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugoneus

Here is a question for ya:

Some people suggest to wait for the car to warm up during cold days to avoid running at higher than idel RPMs when the oil is still cold.

Others suggest that you should start right away, because if the goal is to get the oil warmed up, you should warm it up as quickly as possible. (Of course you don't floor it, but you start driving right away).

I tend to go with the first approach, what do you guys think?

When the RPM starts dropping, I'll back out of my garage.

Since I'm the second house on my street from an arterial (though nearly rural), after that I'm going down the road at 45-55mph.

My frontier with it's temperature sensitive transmission doesn't like to shift into OD or lock the torque converter until it's warmed up, so I've gotten soft on gunning it until then, which by that point I'm on a highway.

That carries over w/ the Z.

Plus, the tires don't grab as well when they've not yet warmed up from use.

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