Don't warmup up your car-R&T

wrgrs50s wrote:
Whoever wrote this story don't know squat !!!

Well, look at it this way. If they wrote a bunch of cr^p, they must know squat... or else where did the cr^p come from? ;) LOL

This thread reminds me of my dear old dad, long gone now, but back in the '70s and '80s he absolutely insisted that a diesel needed to be idled for both warmup and cooldown. It was something he'd learned from the drivers at the truck stops. I had to idle the John Deere for a full 10 minutes (and time it!) before and after. He did the same to the White Freightliner he sometimes drove (seasonal work delivering shelled corn). And his diesel cars were idled a minimum of 3 minutes before he began to move them... but slow and easy even then.

Maybe it really mattered back then or maybe it didn't, I don't know. But I have the impression that most diesels of today definitely do not need that sort of kid-gloves idling.