When you guys start up your engine in the morning, do you let it idle for a couple minutes until it reaches 1000 RPM or do you just startup and drive off?

 

Startup and drive off. My engine runs flawlessly without being babied.

 

Start, kick into gear, rev and Go! With all 303 horses. Especially when a lame beamer is besides me at a stoplight.

 

Startup and go.

 

Startup and go, the garage door hasn't even opened completely and I am out and about

 

Three mechanics that I trust have all said to let the car idle for 30 seconds to get the oil flowing and then go; keeping the rpms under 3,000 for the first couple miles.

If it's an older car (like my Trans Am or Buick), I'll let the car idle for 2-3 minutes before going.

 

get in and go......
it's not like you are driving the first Automobile ever built....

 

For the most part, that's OK to do. Won't harm anything but trust me, it takes no where near 30 seconds to get the oil flowing properly.

 

I only wait until I switch my seatbelt on....

 

i usually get in, start the car and get situated first on the ipod to what i want to listen to then go.

 

The need to warm up the car went away well over a decade ago. Yet the myth that this is necessary to do will persist for another decade or two...

 

Every morning trying to rush to school cause i'm late, i dont think i can afford to lose 30 seconds ha.

 

I wait til the RPM comes down a bit.

 

I wait until about a min or two.

 

agreed. i let my idle calm then keep it under 3k until i hit the highway (roughly 5min away).