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Old 01-18-2012, 08:23 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses View Post
That is so false. The best way to warm-up an engine is to drive it. Idling modern cars on cold start will not warm up the engine sufficiently fast, wastes gas, and causes wear. And when I say drive, I mean low RPM range until the oil temperature is sufficiently high enough...which happens faster from driving rather than idling.

thank you.. people should stop spreading false information. there is tons of info on warming up cars. here is just one

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/daily_gr...in-winter.html
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