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I doubt it. A large number of threads are posted for no other reason than to drive click counts.
Why would OP post anything to drive City-Data click counts? He doesn't earn any money by doing so?
I think many people just don't know about many basic things. Yes... we should weep for society...
Why would OP post anything to drive City-Data click counts? He doesn't earn any money by doing so?
I think many people just don't know about many basic things. Yes... we should weep for society...
Siding with Elnina on this one, I've certainly noticed it in my day to day.
Nope mileage only increases when car is rolling but a lot of new cars today have hour meters built in the dash displays
According to GM fleet managers, 1hr of idling=30miles driven. Maintenance wise. Not odometer reading. Maintenance is based on miles driven AND hours engine was running. So they have simple formula. You idle 1 hr - they consider it 30 miles driven, for fleet servicing purpose.
I asked but didn't get response from OP. I find that idling the car for hours to end, every day, very bizarre. Especially when he also said that he is trying to sell it....
Idling engines might just be a fool’s playground - it can wreak havoc on the engine’s parts.
Many people are, for reasons unknown, convinced that idling the engine for several minutes consumes less fuel than turning off and restarting it. Fact is, for every 2 minutes that a car is idling, it uses about the same amount of fuel that it takes to go nearly a mile.
I wonder how much gas is OP burning every day.
Plus, excessive idling can damage the car engine’s components, including spark plugs, cylinders and exhaust systems. Fuel residue buildup on cylinder walls. That gunk can foul the sparkplugs and muck up exhaust systems.
And I don't even want to mention the environment...
So, maybe I am missing something, but I can't think of any reason of doing that other that dumb.
This got me thinking. What's the hour rating of a car with 100,000 miles on it? At a 40 mph average, it takes only 2500 hours. There is idling of course but still, it's a lot less than I thought. How did you rack up 4000 hours?
I've got a lot of miles racked up.
01 VW Golf TDI - 298K miles
06 GM Duramax - 220K miles
07 Lexus Rx400h - 200K miles
13 Fiat 500e - 69K miles
13 Tesla Model S 85 - 76K miles
Road trips, LA/OC traffic commutes, hunting/fishing trips, and road closures waiting for the snow plow and salt truck can rack up time spent in the car. Believe it or not but I don't idle any longer than necessary...you'll never see me waiting at a drive-thru or idling in a parking lot.
The phenomenal thing about 69K miles in a Fiat 500e implies that it's been plugged in and unplugged well over 1,500 times given it only gets ~83miles on a full charge.
I asked but didn't get response from OP. I find that idling the car for hours to end, every day, very bizarre. Especially when he also said that he is trying to sell it....
Idling engines might just be a fool’s playground - it can wreak havoc on the engine’s parts.
Many people are, for reasons unknown, convinced that idling the engine for several minutes consumes less fuel than turning off and restarting it. Fact is, for every 2 minutes that a car is idling, it uses about the same amount of fuel that it takes to go nearly a mile.
I wonder how much gas is OP burning every day.
Plus, excessive idling can damage the car engine’s components, including spark plugs, cylinders and exhaust systems. Fuel residue buildup on cylinder walls. That gunk can foul the sparkplugs and muck up exhaust systems.
And I don't even want to mention the environment...
So, maybe I am missing something, but I can't think of any reason of doing that other that dumb.
Well, you and others on here are missing something. OP said he wanted to run it once a week, not daily. I agree that he should just get a little battery charger, probably a solar trickle charger.
Or, if the battery is really discharging that fast, he should find out why and fix it. If it's a weak battery, buy a cheap battery and replace it. If it's a grounding problem, fix that. A car should be able to set unused for more than a month without draining the battery. I used to have summer and winter cars that would often set for several months at a time in storage, and I never had any problems with them discharging, not enough to notice anyway.
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