Do you warm up your 3gee??

**88accordlxcarb** · 01-19-2003, 08:48 PM

What do you guys do? I usually warm mine up around 5-7 mins EVERY time the car is cold (IE-overnight, or longer). When it is really cold outside it is warmed-up around 10 mins.

I've always been taught to warm-up any car, because as they get older more time is needed for the sensors, etc, to start to function. Don’t know if there is any truth to that, but hey that’s why I made this poll.

Jason

**Neuspeed87lx** · 01-19-2003, 08:53 PM

yes i let it warm up... i let it high idle for like 2 or 3 min ... i start to drive it when it lets me kick the rpms down to like 1200

**maka_RTH** · 01-19-2003, 09:05 PM

i take off and go. unless less it's really freaking cold, all icy and crap, i'll start it, scrape the ice off, then go

*edit* if im' driving a carbed car, i'll let it warm up before i take off. usually about 5 mins or something, but i haven't driven a carb since, well, actually, just the otehr day when i fixed my friends accord. he let me drive it real quick, and his is carb. but actually starting and going..., the last time was like back in may, lol.

**88 Accord DX** · 01-19-2003, 09:50 PM

i let it warm for 2 min exactly then i roll

***Jareds 89 LX-i*** · 01-19-2003, 09:54 PM

I usually always let it warm up for a couple minutes before I take off. The colder it is, the longer I let it warm up. When it's hot, it's just a minute or two, but when cold I let it run for 5-6 minutes or until I feel a little heat coming out.

**Scotts88WhiteLX-i** · 01-19-2003, 10:08 PM

i let "ANNA" warm up every morning like for around 5 minutes.....Its bad when u just take off cause im a crazy teenage driver. But sometimes if im in a hurry i "granny bitch" it cause i don't let her warm up.....

**Cmac-19** · 01-19-2003, 10:57 PM

i usually let it warm up for 5 mins or soo, but if im in a hurry to get somwhere i just take off and go

**markmdz89hatch** · 01-20-2003, 07:56 AM

I go anywhere from 5 Min. up if I'm starting it from sitting overnight, or for more then like 5 hrs. or so. Both are carbed, so I just try to let the cold-start idle drop before I take off which usually ( in the winter) takes anywhere from 4-10 min.

**mowery** · 01-20-2003, 09:48 AM

Usually let it warm up long enough to do the first two choke kick-down stages... That will put the idle at around 1500, and I'll start driving it *easy*. Then after I've been driving a few minutes and come to a stop it will be fully warmed up and down to the low idle. This seems to be working the best for me.

**pmip** · 01-20-2003, 10:47 AM

I usually let it warm up for about a minute, then just keep the revs low for another 5-7 minutes. It warms up faster while it's moving anyways.

**88' Accord Ltd** · 01-20-2003, 11:22 AM

I let my carbed accord idle until it kicks down back to 1000, then some. Lately its been really cold here and i let it warm up at least a good 10 minutes.

**ACCORD EX** · 01-20-2003, 12:54 PM

it ' better to warm up your car ( at least to get the oil running ! )

MIKE

**87accordlx** · 01-20-2003, 01:38 PM

in the winter i let it completly warm up, i just start it and go in the house and get my books and stuff ready, and when i'm ready the car is nice and warm for me

**Mike's89AccordLX** · 01-20-2003, 01:44 PM

I usually wait about 4-5 but when I'm at stop lights it wants to quit running (carb freeze) So I plan to just wait until it's totally warm. I have to put my silencer on b/c the reason I take off so quick is to not wake the neighbors

**Einstein** · 01-20-2003, 03:56 PM

I go out, start the car with defrost/heat on full blast, come back in and make my lunch, which can take from 10 minutes to 20 minutes. Look out the window--if the windows are clear I go out and go to work. Otherwise I sip more coffee.

**Elijah** · 01-20-2003, 04:21 PM

well it is so cold here the last couple of days that I can't even drive b/c of snow.Last night I tried to go out and it took me 5 minutes to get 10 feet and another 5 to get it back.We got about a 1 -2 feet of snow and well if any of you have seen how low my car is it was like a snow plow.

**johndej** · 01-20-2003, 04:35 PM

i'll let mine warm up for the time it takes to scrape the windows and all. 1/2 the time i just got though and drive easy for a few miles.

**xaccordx89x** · 01-20-2003, 06:00 PM

i usually warm it up until the temperature needle hits the middle where its normally is

**DBMaster** · 01-20-2003, 06:13 PM

Well, I read a long time ago that the car warms up much more efficiently if you just start it and drive it easy for a few minutes and that "warming up" was actually bad for the engine long term.

Of course, I live in Texas and the car is in the garage so it is not much of an issue.

**87Hybrid** · 01-20-2003, 08:21 PM

Gutless as hell cold.

**Stefi-blueLX** · 01-20-2003, 08:49 PM

Even though it's not too cold in the wintertime (67 was our low today

), I let it warm up 2-3 mintues, give it some gas, idle goes down to about 1400, wait about 1 minute later and it idles around 1000. In the summertime, I just go.

**OldSchoolSwap** · 01-21-2003, 05:59 AM

Remote Start! 5 to 10 min. Then i roll

**DBMaster** · 01-21-2003, 08:56 AM

I think the issue with a "warm up" in cold weather is that you may have warmed the engine and transmission (if it is an auto) to near operating temp, but you haven't done squat for the other operational parts (brakes, shocks, bearings, etc.) If you just start and drive it easy for a couple of miles you are warmed up "all over" and no damage is done to anything.

The book where I ready this was written by a guy named Sikorski and it is called "Drive it Forever." I read it while I still had my 15+ year old Pontiac that was still running great with over 200,000 miles. Not a big deal for a 3g Accord, but for a 72 Catalina that's a lot of miles.

**MIK3** · 01-21-2003, 10:52 AM

Yeah, I usually wait about 2-3 mins, and then take off...the previous driver was a grandma, heh, so it wasn't driven very hard. There for I only wait that long. Oh yeah, do you guys simply idle for the warm-up, or rev it a lil? And if you do rev, for how long, and how many rpm's? Thx

**87AccordsterLx** · 01-22-2003, 12:03 PM

If I dont let her warm up (carbed) she drives really sluggish so I'll let it warm up untill I can dropit down to 750rpms... usually about 3 min or so....