Eight Facts About Warming Up Your Car in Winter

Here's a fact about warming up my truck. It's warm inside the cab on a cold winter morning. Period. I'll still do it even if it shortens its life. I'll get rid of it before it dies anyway.

I start the truck, eat a bowl of cereal, brush my teeth and hit the road in a warm truck. One of the luxuries in my life.

 

what polution are you talking about, if its the so called "Green House Gas' Carbon Dioxide the building block of life on the planet thats been labeled polution is not plant food? thats news to me. Go ahead and keep driving your truck living in a air condition wood house and keep bitching about "the poor rainforest".. and you will be paying a huge carbon tax watching all your jobs move to the third world while they mow down the rainforest 10 times as faster than they are doing now.. I understand the need for conservation.. but its just about efficiency...

 

We all know that idling your engine more that a minute wastes fuel, but it sure beats driving to work with yer head sticking out the window 'cause the windshield's fogged over!

 

North of what?

You are apparently unaware that Washington State has a diverse geography and climate. Coldest recorded temperature here is -48F, and that was only at an elevation of 2100 feet.

 

thats the coldest?

you are apparently unaware that saskatchewan gets really cold and that -48F is what most of canada deals with in the winter.

 

cold water... warm may break the glass...I see your point but its like saying i dont know why people heat up their house to a certain temp when they could just put on warmer clothes.. or why do peoploe take warm showers in the summer....they want to

 

Oil takes a long time to heat up to operating temperature, as much as 20-30 minutes. The best you can hope for is to idle for 30 seconds for oil to be pumped from the oilpan into the head galleys, etc. If your daily commute is less than 30 minutes, get a pan heater or switch to a 0W20 synthetic oil that flows better when cold. 5 minutes of idling won't help.

Depending on where you live, and whether the truck is garaged, it may be necessary to get the coolant to warm up to run the defroster. If your windshield isn't frosted up, 30 seconds is all you need.

 

+1 This is a key point. Even tho' your temp gauge says the engine is warmed up, the sensor is reading coolant temp. Warming up your truck for 30 minutes each time you drive it would be absurd. I don't know how much longer it takes to get the oil up to a reasonable temp, but it is certainly longer than than the point when the temp gauge shows operating temp.

 

10 - 15 secs, then easy driving until mine's up to temp. As far as the global warming debate goes, I'm no scientist.

 

If you don't need to warm it up why does it idle higher when it's cold?TO WARM THE ENGINE!

 

I was driving very short distances during a very humid time and not warming my truck up for a couple of weeks and I took my oil cap off and it had a bunch of milky white oil sludge on the cap and i only had about 2000 miles on the oil.. I was really worried about it.. I took the truck on about a half hour drive and checked it again and all the sludge was gone. I then changed my oil.. I used to make fun of my dad and thought he was set in his old man ways for taking a half hour detour after work sometimes in his diesel to "make sure the truck really gets warmed up good.." but not anymore.. I guess I can still learn a thing or two from the old man..

 

I have always heard that when you start a car you get the most wear on an engine. Since oil isn't flowing and the moving parts arn't up on the plane of oil.

 

I believe the popular consensus was that the white sludge was limited to the long filler neck?

 

Totally agree... but you can add just about evey other media outlet to that list... The owner of Faux news donated to HILLARY CLINTON'S campaign! Its all a bunch of B.S. the only thing the media promotes is STATISM!!

 

I got it in the regular filler cap on my 2.7

 

The ECU is programmed that way to heat up the catalytic converters - this is forced upon the carmaker by emissions regulations and may in fact be detrimental to engine life. However, the carmaker doesn't care as long as the engine outlasts the powertrain warranty.

In the end it doesn't matter for me, because the frame and body will rust out long before the motor dies. Notice all the wars involving Toyota "technicals" are fought in desert regions (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya...)

 

I really wish I could mod the truck so it did not do that... I agree about the rust.. I already have bad frame rust

 

all my cars run better after a few minutes of idling. my 00 2.7 prerunner had the infamous knock if i didnt warm her up.

 

So somehow we all forgot about the falsified data that a certain scientist was creating to support the claim of global warming.... what ever happened with that? wasn't he like one of the founding scientists for global warming? the science was based on assumptions and conjecture people!

I like how we think that we can take the only available weather data recorded (100 years) and base our findings on it. we say the earth is warming at an alarming rate based on this 100 years of recorded data and what we "assume" to be the past 4.5 billion years of theory based data.

Since 100 is 1/45,000,000th of the earth's age and 1/10 of a second is 1/45,000,000th of a day then this would be comparable to me taking temp readings for 100 individual tenths of a second and tonight when it gets cold i say we are cooling at an alarming rate! I also have found that it is our own fault and due to us leaving our freezer doors open too long when getting stuff out of the freezer.


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damn 10 seconds is long enough to warm up the car?

I need to wait 8 more seconds in the morning