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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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!
Sure. But I warm up my car so as to not be frozen when I get in.
Its about the heat to be delivered to the driver I thought . .
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.
Well my fuel injected truck makes some funny noises when it is below 10 degrees F until it warms up a bit.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Um, it’s not about the carb, it’s about the OIL.
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.
Even when I don’t go anywhere for a while I still start the car and let it run for a while every week.
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.
I want warm oil circulatin’ .. same as my coffee
On winter mornings, mine sounds like a mechanical typewriter for about 1-2 minutes. Once the tapping sound goes away, I start driving.
Precisely why I've been doing it all winter long up here in soviet Red Hampshire.
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.
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.
OK , start car drive off and Poof windows fogged up D’oh ,it’s clear the Writer does not Own A Car
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