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I give it about 30 seconds. Is it really doing your engine damage or helping it either way? I know that it takes my trans about 5 minutes of driving to warm up so that shifts into the highest gear. I can tell when my RPM'S drop about 500.

 

I usually give it 3-5 mins, and drive her nice and easy for a couple miles. Of course if I'm heading to work she doesn't get a couple miles, more like a 1/2 mile. Living close to work is tough when I want to drive my truck.

 

You want to give you engine time to get the oil moving around and warmedup. But at apoint your just wasting gas.

 

I usually let it warm up about 15 min.-----or until the ice starts melting off the windshield in the morning----gets down to high teens to low 20's here.

 

gassers can handle a longer "warm up" time in the driveway.

if ya CTD, then it should "warm up" no longer than acouple minutes.
then just drive mellow for a bit

 

I don't. Our coldest here in Vegas is 30's so there is no need to really let her warm up. I just start it and drive off. I never romp on it until I have full engine temp and oil pressure though.

 

Wow, leaving a car run for 15 mins before driving off, holy s*@t, what a waste. I live In Mid Eastern Canada where we get 5 deg F to 0 and I leave (any car I ever owned) as soon as I finished removing the ice and snow from the car. I've been told that a minute is more than enough to get the oils circulatingand then slowely drive off. Safer. I also leave at 5 am for work.

 

moral of the story for me is,

i want to warm it up for like 3 min minimum,

so i've decided to buy a remote start.

I park in a carport beneath my bedroom window, so this way i can crank it and 5 min later leave my apartment and be warmed up.

 

That's exactly what I just did.