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Do u all warmup ur car when the engine is cold? Any pros or cons to warmup ur engine?

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Do u all warmup ur car when the engine is cold? Any pros or cons to warmup ur engine?

 

Most modern engines do not need the warming up of the engine. Just crank and drive off. In fact, stationary and letting the engine warm up can do more harm as it creates carbon-build up.

 

Just remember, go gentle when you drive off and dun over-rev or hit high RPMs when the engine is still cold as it may shorten ur engine life.

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You cans tart driving off once u start the engine, however, do make sure the engine has sufficiently warmed up before you start revving it.

 

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Unless you are driving a vintage car that requires warming up cos cold engine will stall...there is no need to warmup your engine.

 

Drive off after you have start your engine. This will allow the engine oils to circulate to parts of the engine rather than letting the oil stays at the oil sump. Try not to switch on your aircon until the engine has reach optimum temp....this is to reduce the load on a cold engine.

 

For a normal engine, it would take around 1km of driving to get it up to the require temp.

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yessss!! learnt another new thing abt car today!!!

after on engine, i always sit inside car for abt 1min.

duno how many 1mins i've wasted liao. kekeke.....

 

thot muz let the engine oil to get into engine first before i move off.

damn i was wrong.

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Do u all warmup ur car when the engine is cold? Any pros or cons to warmup ur engine?

 

don't need to warm up but if you want can let the engine run for a while...say 30 to 60sec to let the engine oil circulate to the top of the engine to lub the moving parts there.

 

as for me, it's start and go most of the time [thumbsup]

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