a neighbor of mine that is about 60-70 has a a small Diesel Citroen van, every 2 or 3 days he goes and starts it up and just sits at 1500-2000 rpm for 10 minutes, without going anywhere, he told me it's to keep the oil circulating and not letting it sit, i am good friends with him and have known him forever and i tied to tell him that what he is doing is unneccessary and all he is doing is probably clogging up the DPF and wasting fuel and creating pollution and that it would only really need to be started up every 2 or 3 weeks to keep everything going, a few weeks ago he told me it didn't pass emission and i said no wonder! i told him to go drive it aggressively on the motorway/highway for an hour or so and voilà it passed, but he still does it, he's sold the van though and is only waiting for the guy to come pick it up.
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