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Originally Posted by tonyb15re
Im somewhat confused with all these threads, if your car is at home in a garage, open garage door, exit garage to driveway, leave car running until it gets up to temp, reverse back in turn car off, repeat as often as you like. Im sure local rules dont stop you going within 5 paces of your front door? of course if your car is miles away or in a public garage then you have a bigger problem.
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From various reads on other bmw models' forum, it is discouraged to idle our cars as it actually might not recover the electrical output it requires to start off the car to begin with. Now, I don't have the technical knowledge behind it so if anyone knows about voltage consumption and generation with alternators, please feel free to sure. I read a bunch but none that make much sense to me as, again, I don't have a technical background. From common sense, I can see how it can hold true given the so many electrical components our cars have these days, especially our car alarms.