How long do you guys let your car warm up?

[Tiger]

Extreme cold climate zone use difffernt technique... Use super thin oil... like 0W20... the also use engine block heater... sometime also transmission pan heater before they start up the car. Always have the heater hooked up when parking for extended time.

Differenty type of grease is also used whenever possible.

If no place to plug in, just keep the engine running... even if all night long, or you will have to wait half a day inside a garage for your entire car to defrost.

[repenttokyo]

Extreme cold climate zone use difffernt technique... Use super thin oil... like 0W20... the also use engine block heater... sometime also transmission pan heater before they start up the car. Always have the heater hooked up when parking for extended time.

Differenty type of grease is also used whenever possible.

If no place to plug in, just keep the engine running... even if all night long, or you will have to wait half a day inside a garage for your entire car to defrost.

extreme cold climates never turn vehicles off. i'm talking extreme, like Alert.

[Ferret]

extreme cold climates never turn vehicles off. i'm talking extreme, like Alert.

The Russian public busses are left idling overnight during the winter months or they wont start... if one stalls out during the night they have to build a fire under the engine bay to get it warmed up to startup temperatures!

[repenttokyo]

The Russian public busses are left idling overnight during the winter months or they wont start... if one stalls out during the night they have to build a fire under the engine bay to get it warmed up to startup temperatures!

yeah it's so !

[Dave M]

The Russian public busses are left idling overnight during the winter months or they wont start... if one stalls out during the night they have to build a fire under the engine bay to get it warmed up to startup temperatures!

I've had to do this working in the bush in very cold temps. Its at times like these that you wonder what the hell you're doing it for...... Pipeline workers also use this 'technique'. In places in Nunavut (my sister lives there),if you plan on going anywhere with a 'car' (anything other than a snowmachine) when its cold (-50) then its a chore. Bring the vehicle into a garage and heat the whole thing etc. Luckily, there are vety few places to go that a snowmachine can't take you

Also, my brother in law is a bush pilot and has had to sleep with his battery and engine oil in order to prevent being stranded in the bush.

Hey look, its -10 and snowing out, time for a ski,

Dave

[Ross]

I've had to do this working in the bush in very cold temps. Its at times like these that you wonder what the hell you're doing it for...... Pipeline workers also use this 'technique'. In places in Nunavut (my sister lives there),if you plan on going anywhere with a 'car' (anything other than a snowmachine) when its cold (-50) then its a chore. Bring the vehicle into a garage and heat the whole thing etc. Luckily, there are vety few places to go that a snowmachine can't take you

Also, my brother in law is a bush pilot and has had to sleep with his battery and engine oil in order to prevent being stranded in the bush.

Hey look, its -10 and snowing out, time for a ski,

Dave

"had to sleep with his battery and engine oil"
What does your sister have to say about this?

[Dave M]

"had to sleep with his battery and engine oil"
What does your sister have to say about this?

She's not stupid enough to fly with him

[whiskychaser]

The Russian public busses are left idling overnight during the winter months or they wont start... if one stalls out during the night they have to build a fire under the engine bay to get it warmed up to startup temperatures!

Thought everybody lit fires under diesel tanks:-) Some old UK truck drivers would put a gallon of petrol in every tankful of diesel :-) I remember being told as a kid that the Germans lost on the Russian front for 2 reasons - the wrong boots and the wrong oil. They were issued leather boots instead of felt and the oil for engines - and guns - was the wrong type: it froze up.
I seem to remember a Porsche 911 having a light to tell you when it was warmed up enough for you to drive off. I digress. We had 4inches of snow today and like any other day I turned the key and drove off.