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Originally Posted by Wo6M
This is exactly why its ill advised to commute short destinations .
The crankcase accumulates moister and eventually pools in the crankcase. sort distances with im proper warm up period will not allow the water vapors to escape.
if you are going to commute for destinations please advise to my recommendations:
1. 5-10 mins of leaving your home start your vehicle and allow to the engine to warm up.
2. Cars today have come such a long way . you can use the stock tem gauge as reference . once you see the needle risen about a quarter way to fully warm feel free to drive it.
You might wonder way i say a quarter way and not all the way?
Ill explain.
the cooling system is designed to obviously to always maintain coolant in the engine.
When the engine is cold the Thermostat the basically sits in between the radiator and the engine is also cold and when its cold its its closed. As the engine is running its warming up the coolant inside the block .when you see the gauge begging to move its also reference that the coolant in the engine if fully warm causing the thermostats to open allowing cool coolant to enter and hence warming up the rest of the system.
(This of course helps warms up the engine oil along with the action of are FA20 engines)
I will always advise the use a visual data stream from the OBDII but the gauge works just fine for everyday life.
any questions feel free to PM me.
Good luck, hope this helps
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This is bad advice.. Sorry to say.. Starting the car and letting it idle for 5 to 10 minutes causes more harm than good.. Because at idle when cold the engine is running rich and the engine is not under a load and will take LONGER to warm up allowing gas to dilute the oil. You should start the car and drive within seconds which warms it up quicker. Also oil temps are slow to follow coolant temps. It's takes another 15+ minutes for oil temps to come up under load.
Just drive the car to work as you need.. Take it out a couple times a week and drive it good! Change you oil more frequently, don't worry about this shit and enjoy your car.