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The myth about warming up your car on a cold day
Globe & Mail ^ | February 25, 2015 | PETER CHENEY

Posted on 02/26/2015 2:44:28 PM PST by rickmichaels

The Stegosaurus disappeared more than 100 million years ago, doomed by its tiny brain and a changing world. Then we come to the carburetor, a crude fuel-mixing device that once ruled the automotive universe.

Today, the carburetor is largely extinct, kicked aside by the modern fuel-injection system. Yet millions of drivers still seem to be stuck in the Jurassic Period. I thought of this recently when I watched a man spend 10 minutes warming up a fuel-injected Toyota that could have been driven seconds after it was started.

Few processes are as poorly understood as the cold-weather start. Back in the days of carburetion, a car couldn’t be driven until it was warmed up. Today, warming-up is a counterproductive exercise that wastes fuel, harms the environment and damages your car. Let’s have a look at the science, history and flawed folklore behind the automotive warm-up:

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1 posted on 02/26/2015 2:44:28 PM PST by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

Correct on the physics, but lets face it, who likes driving off in a frozen car. God made the remote start to give us comfort!


2 posted on 02/26/2015 2:46:16 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: rickmichaels

Sure. But I warm up my car so as to not be frozen when I get in.


3 posted on 02/26/2015 2:46:42 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: rickmichaels

Its about the heat to be delivered to the driver I thought . .


4 posted on 02/26/2015 2:47:12 PM PST by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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Today, warming-up is a counterproductive exercise that wastes fuel, harms the environment and damages your car.

I quit there, at "harms the environment."

I warm up my truck so it's not so cold when I get in it and to defrost the windows. The libs can piss off.

5 posted on 02/26/2015 2:47:14 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: rickmichaels

Well my fuel injected truck makes some funny noises when it is below 10 degrees F until it warms up a bit.


6 posted on 02/26/2015 2:48:13 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: rickmichaels

Um, perhaps he was waiting until the interior heated up so he wouldn’t freeze his buns? Even heated seats take a few minutes, at least mine do.


7 posted on 02/26/2015 2:48:23 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: rickmichaels

Point of the article is you don’t need to warm up your car - Then the article acknowledges the engine needs to warm up and discusses the best way to do that.

We are living in idiotic times.


8 posted on 02/26/2015 2:48:33 PM PST by Williams
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To: Jewbacca

Exactly. Nothing worse than driving a cold car.

I’ll start the car and walk down to the post office and come back and take a shower or whatever before I even bother to drive.


9 posted on 02/26/2015 2:48:54 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: rickmichaels

I don’t do it to warm up my fuel-injected engine. I do it to warm up the interior. Is the writer of that article that obtuse?


10 posted on 02/26/2015 2:48:56 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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Um, it’s not about the carb, it’s about the OIL.


11 posted on 02/26/2015 2:49:24 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Today, the carburetor is largely extinct, kicked aside by the modern fuel-injection system. Yet millions of drivers still seem to be stuck in the Jurassic Period. I thought of this recently when I watched a man spend 10 minutes warming up a fuel-injected Toyota that could have been driven seconds after it was started.

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This moron seems to ignore the fact that many people let their cars warm up INSIDE. So that when they get in, the heater and defroster are working fine.


12 posted on 02/26/2015 2:50:02 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Obama used to be against people who cling to guns and religion.)
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To: Tenacious 1

Even when I don’t go anywhere for a while I still start the car and let it run for a while every week.


13 posted on 02/26/2015 2:50:45 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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My car groans and creaks when driven cold. Runs like a charm when she’s warmed up and toasty. 105k miles on it and haven’t yet needed to replace any of the exhaust system components including the catalytic converter.


14 posted on 02/26/2015 2:51:03 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Wiser now

I want warm oil circulatin’ .. same as my coffee


15 posted on 02/26/2015 2:51:49 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: rickmichaels

On winter mornings, mine sounds like a mechanical typewriter for about 1-2 minutes. Once the tapping sound goes away, I start driving.


16 posted on 02/26/2015 2:51:59 PM PST by fso301
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Today, warming-up is a counterproductive exercise that wastes fuel, harms the environment...

Precisely why I've been doing it all winter long up here in soviet Red Hampshire.

17 posted on 02/26/2015 2:53:03 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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There is the engine warm to spec and then there is the cab warm to my body spec.
Cab aint wamr in 10 seconds carb,no carb.


18 posted on 02/26/2015 2:54:12 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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My “warming up the car” is based upon is there snow, frozen snow, or ice on the car, especially ice on windows or needing to get heavy fog/mist gone from windshield. Once the windows are clear, and the ENTIRE CAR if covered with snow, like this morning, then I get in and go....and the interior is warm by then too.

Oh yes, about 3 inches of globull warming on my car here in DC this morning.


19 posted on 02/26/2015 2:54:33 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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OK , start car drive off and Poof windows fogged up D’oh ,it’s clear the Writer does not Own A Car


20 posted on 02/26/2015 2:55:23 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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