Cold Weather

[Macey]

Hi, just wondering about the best method to warm my car up now that it's getting cold in the mornings. Is it better to drive it gently until warm or leave it ticking over?

Cheers

Macey

[Daston]

drive gently that way you have a bit of load on the engine and some pressure in the oil pump.

[WorAl]

You should ALWAYS drive the car gently until up to temp anyway.

[C15]

I bought my tuscan a while ago, and I have noticed that the oil temp takes about 6 miles until it reaches 50° by a water temp of approx 70°C, unless I drive in traffic, then both reach 'normal' relatively quickly, about 2-3miles.

I live in Germany and I can tell you it is not nice joining a motorway driving at 60mph in 5th keeping under 2500rpm, and the oil temp never going above 55°C on a day with temps around 20-25°C !!!

Now we have around 8°C in the mornings and the car doesn't reach even 50°C after 10-15miles.. there is too much air flow I guess. The water doesn't get much higher than 65°C.. I don'T want to block the pepperpot, as then in traffic it would get too hot, and the oil pressure would be below 7psi..(It does this in traffic with about 85° oil temp).

any tips?

[dvs_dave]

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