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Originally Posted by omniphil
Same here. I never idle cars. its not good for the car. (Or the environment)
And Idling only warms up the engine, all the diffs and trans need warming up too and the best/fastest way is by driving it easy.
Turn the key and wait 5 seconds for the oil to get moving around and drive away.
Keep driving very easily until the oil is over 180 degrees F. (Which takes about 10 minutes on this vehicle with its large oil capacity)
Honestly this is what scares the crap out of me when buying a used car, because you know the previous owner didn't do this..
Drive it to the top of their street and then floor it merging onto the next road... This problem is worse on a vehicle like this with its very long warm up cycle.
(Unless one of you nice folks had the X3 before me and took care of it  ) |
That’s exactly how my neighbors treat their BMW’s. Get in go and drive it like you stole it.