The great debate: How long should you let your car warm up for?

In reality, until the idle drops to normalish range. I wait about 15–30 seconds in the summer, and a couple minutes in winter, or based on how cold it is however long it takes for the defroster to start working in the winter on my 99. Timing varies between vehicle and its age, newer vehicles are much quicker. Engine wise as soon as RPMs drop and the oil has begun circulating it’s ready to go, just take it easy. It will warm up fastest driving.

That is of course, as long as it is physically safe and comfortable enough to do so.

Till it drops below a 1000 and I drive it easy till it gets to opp.

New cars with thin oil. After 30 seconds, you’re good to drive easily for the first few mins.

As long as it takes you to put your seatbelt on if you have a recentish vehicle. That’s such a loaded question though because our vehicles have gotten so much more efficient in the last 20 years or so. They’re running thinner oils and just better. So a newer car, start, put your seatbelt on, and drive like grandma for a for miles until it reaches operating temperature.

If it’s a genuinely nice car, 2 minutes. If it’s not nice, but you are trying to take care of it, 30 seconds and be easy on it for the first bit while it heats up. If you don’t care about it, however long it takes you to put your seat belt on.

Start car drive away being. Easy on throttle till temps rise. It’s been tested many times. It’s the best method to reduce wear on engines.

Your car is meant to operate at it’s stable temp it reach normally, but it’s a manage the engine vs gas price, if you just start and go that’s kind of dumb, but unless you got unlimited supply of cash, you don’t need to let it goes to op temp either, but, you shouldn’t drive it like fast n furious until it is at that temp tho.

Depends on which car, engine, time of year etc. on average throughout both winter and summer driving. I’d say 7 min

That all depends on where you live and temperature thats outside.. if you live if cold weather areas.. lets say 0 degrees.. you need to give it a minute or two so that the oil becomes more lubricant.. as it gets solidified in frigit weathers.. if you live in 30-60 degrees.. 30 seconds to a minute is all it takes.. 61 and up doesnt require any warmup at all.. hopes this helps

If I don’t let mine run about 5 minutes before I leave, I can definitely tell a difference. I’ve heard you’re not supposed to warm them up but if I don’t it’s like my car struggles to go lol, and it’s brand new.