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Originally Posted by pksystems
It's -31C here right now. Does anyone on earth think it's good for the car to start it up and drive away immediately? Every fluid in the car is significantly below operating temp.
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And therein lies one problem with warming up your engine: a false sense that lubricants in, for example, the gearbox and differential are also good to go. I suspect many people, after warming the engine, just hop right in and drive normally, paying little-to-no mind that those other critical components aren't ready for prime-time.
To be clear, I
do warm the engines in my cars when they've been sitting out in severe cold, but I take it very easy on drive train for several minutes after getting underway.
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