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Originally Posted by JAK
I always warm up my car don’t care about wasting gas, otherwise I’d be driving a different car. I can’t believe that letting a car idle is bad for the engine when it’s one step up from the least amount of stress you can induce on it. Sitting in traffic must be hell on my car if that’s the case
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Cold starts are the most wear on the engine...the longer you have it in that cold state the more wear that happens; idling takes significantly longer to warm up and engine than driving. It's a matter of oil flow not load.