Warming up the car engine is a mandatory procedure that is carried out in the cold season. In this regard, drivers are often interested in what kind of air temperature they need to warm up.
Optimum temperature for warming up
There is no exact opinion as to what time of the year you need to warm up the car, and how many degrees should be on the thermometer at the same time. The need for this may arise even in the summer. Experienced car enthusiasts recommend warming up the car before driving if the air temperature is below 15 ° C and the vehicle has stood motionless for more than 5 hours.
It becomes necessary to warm up if the driver leaves the car on the street at night. As a rule, nights in central Russia are quite cool even in the warm season, and this leads to solidification of the coolant in the engine, as well as engine oil. If you start to move with a cold engine, the car will move in jerks for some time, giving in to control and maneuvering with difficulty. That is why it is better to spend a few minutes preheating than to expose yourself and passengers to danger.
Features of warming up the machine
Engine warm-up time increases with air temperature. If it is positive, then it takes 3 to 5 minutes. At temperatures close to zero, warm up the machine for 5-10 minutes. Finally, during frost it can take up to 15-20 minutes to warm up. That is why experts recommend storage of the car in a garage, which allows not only to reduce the engine warm-up time to a minimum, but also to keep the main automotive components and components in working order longer.
Be sure to warm up your car if you find residual condensation on it from night fog or rain in the morning. Even if the engine starts well, be sure to warm up the interior and windows of the car using the heater and climate control system to stabilize the pressure in all systems and allow the cooled components to be saturated with engine oil. Frost and ice on the surface of the body and engine are especially dangerous. They must be brushed off, and then the machine must be warmed up for at least 10 minutes.
The procedure for warming up the engine itself is simple. It is enough to turn on the ignition and hold the engine at idle speed for the required amount of time. Keeping the gearbox in neutral, begin to slightly podgazovat, listening to the sound of the engine. In the absence of misfiring, as well as extraneous noise in the engine, you can start driving. The first 1-2 kilometers should be driven in first or second gear so that the fuel pump starts pumping fuel properly.
