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12-30-2010, 09:17 PM | #1 |
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Warmup time?
How long does it take your car to come up to temps? We are having about 40 degree temps here, and it seems to take almost 10-15 minutes or more of driving before my temps get above 160. It seems incredibly long since my STi's seemed to warmup after about 3 minutes or less. Just curious.
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12-30-2010, 09:38 PM | #3 |
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It takes my car about 15 minutes or 5 miles to get above 160 degree's for an oil temp when its around 15 degrees outside. If its over freezing about 5 minutes.
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12-30-2010, 10:13 PM | #4 |
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15 minutes usually
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30 degrees right now and last ride took 20 min to reach 220 with heater on.
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Takes my car the same 15 mins or so. |
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12-31-2010, 12:26 AM | #8 | |
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It sometimes feels like it takes a long time to warm up due to two reasons:
1. Most people are used to looking at a water temp gauge, not oil temp. However, oil temp is the more relevant measure, and it takes a lot longer to warm up oil. 2. Our cars take almost 8 quarts of oil, and it takes a while to get that kind of a volume up to temperature. On a related note, don't make the common mistake of letting the car "warm-up" by idling for several minutes before you drive. This is not the proper way to warm up your car. It's much better to just start driving. The manual states (p.57 for my '08 335): Quote:
Letting the car idle while stationary also generates unnecessary emissions, and for this reason it is actually now illegal in some places! Oh, and one more thing: Seriously, this has been discussed many times. I basically copy pasted my above response from another thread a couple weeks ago. |
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12-31-2010, 06:12 PM | #9 |
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the coolant temp rises pretty quickly -- you can tell this by turning on the heater.. ull feel the temp go up pretty quickly..
the oil temp thing always get folks -- sounds normal to me |
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12-31-2010, 07:36 PM | #11 |
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i dont even let my car rev down from cold start. Just throw it in 1st and away i go lol.
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12-31-2010, 08:23 PM | #12 |
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It takes my car about the same 15 mins for the oil temp needle to start moving past 160 degrees. I wonder if warm up time is different on cars without the oil cooler vs cars with. My car has the factory oil cooler that comes with the sport package....
Also, I usually let my car idle for 20 seconds after starting it before setting off on a drive. I've always been taught that extensivly long idles are not nessecery. I also try to avoid revving it over 3000 rpms until the oil temp needle is close to 200 degrees.
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12-31-2010, 10:53 PM | #13 |
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My car took about 25 minutes to warm up. I hate it when it's about 5 degree and I have to sit in the car waiting for it to warm up.
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12-31-2010, 11:22 PM | #14 |
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Went sking yesterday. -25C on the road out, that is about -10 to -15F. Car never got up to full operating temp of 110C (225-230F) despite driving for 45 minutes at 130kmh (80mph).
Old "conventional" wisdom was for old cars that were not made to the same tolerances. New engines (say post 1980-something) are designed and manufactured much better. |
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12-31-2010, 11:32 PM | #15 |
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Does it makes sense though, that one might want to still let their engine warm up then take it easy and drive - allowing the rest of the drivetrain to warm up also? Is this really hurting anything, except the pollution factors? I don't really care about saving the planet, but I'd like my Bimmer to last a year or so.
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01-01-2011, 02:15 AM | #17 |
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well i start a car and go normally not going over 3k rpms untill my oil temprature reaches 70 C
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01-03-2011, 11:47 AM | #18 |
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think the heater works well because you have 60+ Amps flowing into item no 3 , an 800W heater. It's not your coolant heating up fast. Water requires twice as much energy to warm up compared to oil. Would be interesting to log both from cold with BT, but no oil temp sensor on mine
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01-03-2011, 11:52 AM | #19 |
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Its best to wait for the initial advanced warm up to be done and then to start driving casually until temps get up.
15 minutes is normal in these cold temps.... I hate it. If you let your car sit at idle it would take even longer, I think last time I tried it was nearly 30 minutes to warm up in 30 degree weather having the car sit at idle. It's amazing cause as soon as its like 70 degrees this car warms up in like a minute. If only we could make it stay this cold in a hot summer day. |
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Subarus are a dream car for that, I am missing this feature of my STi also...
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