View Poll Results: let your car warm up?

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  • yes jsut for inital "idle high" to stop

    49 32.24%
  • to full running temp

    36 23.68%
  • no, its fine i start up and go

    16 10.53%
  • warm up for approx 1 min.

    23 15.13%
  • it doesnt matter

    2 1.32%
  • i do if i can, but its not a big deal to me

    26 17.11%
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Thread: do u let your car warm up? poll

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hektik
    ok i have a question about this. my car will warm up like normal. then when i strat to drive the temp will drop. it only does it on cold days and i have the ac removed so the condenser is out of the way. when i say the temp drops it drops it will get all the way to cold. is it bad for the car since the motor is cold?


    It just sounds to me like your thermostat opened and circulated the hot coolant out, that's all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Five*Star*
    It just sounds to me like your thermostat opened and circulated the hot coolant out, that's all.
    but it only does it when its cold out. and it goes all the way to cold like if i had just started the car...

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