Posted on 12/24/2022 4:20:36 PM PST by vespa300
Yeah, that’s kind of what I do.
Every commercial engine I ever operated had a minimum oil temperature requirement before putting a load on the engine. In other words, you have to leave them idling until they're sufficiently warm before operating them. That is done for longevity purposes. Now firestone is saying the exact opposite but offering no justification for it at all. I'll stick with what engine manufacturers say, not some climate change propaganda piece.
They think we’re stupid and don’t know this or can’t figure it out on our own. Content is more important than freedom and truth. One reason I do not own or watch TV.
Nah, they want you to NEVER start your car. Fumes problem solved. Just park it and leave it forever.
“These “experts” need to come out and say how idling is any different than driving.”
A car will warm up more quickly if driven, than idling, so the amount of pollution created by the car just to warm up will be more. It’s a fair point, just tell us that, and the left-winger fanatics, who likely don’t even own a car with brakes that work, can adjust their lifestyle.
But now the media gets into flat-out LYING and telling us it’s bad for the car to idle while warming up - just think what else they’d lie about...
>>>I don’t give a schit if it’s polluting the air by idling my car.>>>
Yeah, I guess we have to remember it was these climate change fanatics that led to the engines that turn off at stop lights now and start up again when you let off the brake. Our new BMW X3M40i doesn’t even allow us to disable that annoying thing unlike our Telluride which had a button to disable it. It’s annoying.
Don’t let it idle for a few seconds? How can that even happen? Start it in gear?
They're not even trying anymore. These Millennial/Gen-Z punks writing for the MSM these days think we're all stupid.
I knew from the title alone that there was going to be some enviro-bullsh*t excuse for why we shouldn't warm up our cars.
I always trusted the advice of the car talk guys, click and clack. They said the best way to warm up a car is to drive it slowly in really cold weather. Only for the first few minutes and then the car is warm enough to drive normally.
Not all, but a majority are.
Oh, bi**h, bi**h, bi**h! You can't have everything! You got rid of that polluter. Isn't that enough?
Once every week or so I take a break at work and go for breakfast at McD's.
A breakfast burrito combo meal, a sausage biscuit (add cheese) and a coke. Same order every time.
I park my truck under the shade and listen to a podcast while I enjoy my food.
I leave my Tacoma running the whole time, up to 45 minutes.
Screw these people.
They're pissing me off to the point where I'm about to start burning coal in my fireplace just to spite them.
I worked on a pulling unit in the dead of a Wyoming winter.
We had hoses hooked up to a system where we would pull the work truck up to the motor on the pulling unit, hook up the hoses and the warm water in the work truck would circulate through the pulling unit motor and back into the work truck.
And the agenda is: They want us to wear out our ICE vehicles as fast as possible to get them off the road ASAP.
But these cited “experts” say it damages the car. This is simply not true.
I always let my car idle until the RPM’s drop down, even in the summer in Phoenix
You are right.
Coolant isn’t the issue, its the cold oil that isn’t circulating correctly.
Its the eco retards trying to murder us by freezing, in order to appease Gaia or whatever they call it this week.
I was told that carburated engines and cars with petroleum based lubricants needed to be warmed up but the fuel injected engines and synthetic lubricants need to be driven gently until warm.
I was told that carburated engines and cars with petroleum based lubricants needed to be warmed up but the fuel injected engines and synthetic lubricants need to be driven gently until warm.
“If you are just doing it to warm up the heater/inside, it warms up faster if you drive it than if it idles.”
Problem there is that the windows and front and back glass will remain iced up until the warm air hits them and the electric defrosting bands in the back window open up sight not replaced by moisture. So if it’s very cold and the car is iced, running the engine until the ice is melted is a safety issue and not a car damaging one. And then the driver can kick the accelerator and cut back the rpms on the engine.
wy69
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