Do you have to warm up your TL, or just get crackin? I know in my avalon i always warmed up for like 2 minutes cuz it was revving so high when i started it up in the morning. How do you guys do it? and has anyone consulted a professional about warming up new cars?

 

My warm-up procedure:

1 minute of idling
2-3 minutes of driving below 2,000 RPM to get the engine and tranny warmed up.

 

I start the engine and make sure it goes down below 1K rpm before I get going.........

May be too much for some, but I did it to all my cars, and never had any problems ....

Cars I have/had
91 Acura Integra, 94 Honda Civic, 97 Honda Accord, 98 BMW M3, 01 SAAB 9-5 Aero, 03 Nissan 350Z, and the latest addition....04 TL....all were brand new when I bought them...

 

I only warm up my car during winter time. By the time I hit a highway that should be sufficient... hahha.. 1996 Honda Accord 177k Miles and going baby.. i am looking to buy TL.. but I need to buy an engagement ring first... RING or TL? hmmmmm damn biatches!!!

 

Two words: cubic zirconium

 

Everything I've ever read, plus my own experience, suggests that warming up for more than a minute or so in "normal" weather conditions is hard on a car. I start mine and go, albeit a little slowly for the first couple hundred yards to let fluids circulate.

I would qualify this by saying that, in extreme cold weather conditions, this would change. When I lived in Edmonton, Alberta, I used to warm up for up to five minutes...mind you, it was 40 frickin' degrees below zero, and the warm up was as much for my benefit as the car's

 

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hahahha... i like the kobe ring.. hahha

 

One thing about the New TL - the engine warms up about twice as fast as my 02 TL did. Usually in two blocks the temperature gause is at 1/4 already. This is nice in the winter time because you get almost instant heat.

 

 

this is basically what i do as well. there is really no need to warm up for a long time. the rest of you car is cold like the tranny, and suspension.