The only time I idle is out of necessity: defrosting windows or getting interior temp out of dangerously cold range.
I usually have to idle at stop lights/drive throughs/traffic as well...
The only time I idle is out of necessity: defrosting windows or getting interior temp out of dangerously cold range.
You know your wife well. Keep feeding her vehicle good lubricating oils. Even under the Christmas Tree..... wait, don't do thatI don't know about warm up. My wife hits the button on the 4Runner it fires up as soon as she can she pulls in in reverse and she's gone. I some how don't think it's going to destroy it's self. I wonder how many people in the world are just like her, and how many vehicles see XXX,XXX number of miles with proper maintenance. She's put many miles on many different vehicles just like this and we have't had an issue. The only time she ever warms anything up is if she has to park outside at work and it snows on it or it is really cold.
301k on the factory fill and never let it idle more than 10 seconds before I drive it, redlining it at every gearchange.How many miles does your motor have?
Okeedokee dude......Uses zero oil between 8500 mile interval changes. Gets 43mpg, doesn't rattle on start, no knocking etc.
By the way I am still running the original factory iridium spark plugs.
Pretty happy with the civic and M1 oil. I bought the car new in 14 and its 85% freeway miles.
I also warm the car up for 10-20 mins before driving every time.
Driving an automatic while it's cold won't damage it, unless you're driving it hard. If an auto is hesitant to shift when it's cold, i will let off the throttle partially, wait for it to shift, and then resume accelerating....and then there's the automatic transmission. Ever notice how your auto trans doesn't want to shift if you just start the car from fully cold and take off? Can you guess why? You might think, you might even swear that this is not a problem but you'd be wrong. You are in fact putting undue stress and trying to force it to do something it's simply not ready to do, it needs a bit of temperature, although it doesn't need to be fully or at the normal operating temperature.
He's busy working on a new IP/troll account.Pale seems to have stopped, dropped and rolled on this thread.
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There's a lot to question about that post.300k on same plugs?
300k on same plugs?
All I can say is good luck getting those plugs out after 300K. This coming from someone who has done 100K changes on many vehicles, including the ones in my signature.That's actually kinda believable, I'm still on the original plugs in my Civic and I've got 145,000 miles on them. My fuel economy is still incredible (over the last 6k my average is 45 MPG) and the engine is perfectly smooth. I'm not changing my plugs until I notice a drop in fuel economy or a rough idle.