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I had heard that it's not necessary anymore so I had been just going about 15 seconds after starting it, but I've noticed the revs do come down if I give it 45s to 60s first. I'll just do that. Plus it gives the heater more time to actually come on... meaning heat sooner for me if I start it earlier and go back in the house and do what I need to do.
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Originally Posted by Rabrrita
Like others have mentioned, I also use the remote start and with the climate sensors, it knows to also activate the cold weather features.
Features like the heater, heated steering wheel, and heated seats? I didn't know those can come on automatically but in this day and age with all the sensors, that would be expected. In my wife's '13 car with remote start, we have to leave those toggles on the night before (rear defrost always starts off unfortunately).
In my '08 BMW (can't remote start), it has the temp control that remembers the last setting, but it takes close to 10 minutes for it to actually blow air (doesn't blow if car is cold). No way to set defroster on automatically either.
What kind of car and what features come on depending on temp alone?
At home i do. At work there is no point. My truck is parked too far from the office to go back inside while it warms up. No point in sitting there freezing, I may as well get moving. Driving seems to warm it up faster than idling anyway.
I had heard that it's not necessary anymore so I had been just going about 15 seconds after starting it, but I've noticed the revs do come down if I give it 45s to 60s first. I'll just do that. Plus it gives the heater more time to actually come on... meaning heat sooner for me if I start it earlier and go back in the house and do what I need to do.
Features like the heater, heated steering wheel, and heated seats? I didn't know those can come on automatically but in this day and age with all the sensors, that would be expected. In my wife's '13 car with remote start, we have to leave those toggles on the night before (rear defrost always starts off unfortunately).
In my '08 BMW (can't remote start), it has the temp control that remembers the last setting, but it takes close to 10 minutes for it to actually blow air (doesn't blow if car is cold). No way to set defroster on automatically either.
What kind of car and what features come on depending on temp alone?
I wait for RPMs to come down to 1000, then off I go. That's assuming I didn't remote start it.
My 2016 Silverado will turn on front and rear defrosters and the heated seats in winter when remotely started. In the summer it turns on the A/C and ventilated seats. Steering wheel heat has to be turned on manually. Not sure why that is.
I had heard that it's not necessary anymore so I had been just going about 15 seconds after starting it, but I've noticed the revs do come down if I give it 45s to 60s first. I'll just do that. Plus it gives the heater more time to actually come on... meaning heat sooner for me if I start it earlier and go back in the house and do what I need to do.
Features like the heater, heated steering wheel, and heated seats? I didn't know those can come on automatically but in this day and age with all the sensors, that would be expected. In my wife's '13 car with remote start, we have to leave those toggles on the night before (rear defrost always starts off unfortunately).
In my '08 BMW (can't remote start), it has the temp control that remembers the last setting, but it takes close to 10 minutes for it to actually blow air (doesn't blow if car is cold). No way to set defroster on automatically either.
What kind of car and what features come on depending on temp alone?
My heater I leave on, so that comes on when I use the remote start. Mine doesn't turn in the heated seats but the higher end ones do.
Simple. You want to give the oil time to run through the motor......otherwise it is causes more wear and tear on the engine.
I advocate 5 min regardless of the weather, and of course longer in subzero temps.
Not the case, with a few exceptions (the A2 VWs - Jettas and Golfs from about '82 to mid-'90s - famously did not have a check valve to keep oil in the engine when shut off so much of it drained back into the pan ... the advice from mechanics was to avoid certain oil filters and to buy those with a check valve built in, usually the same price as I recall).
And the engine will heat quicker at speed than idling at neutral. People, however, like a warm cabin (myself included).
Finally are having a "normal" winter here in NYC and it was freezing on Christmas. This of course prompted many *ahem* heated debates around dinner tables or whatever about the necessity of warming up modern vehicles before driving.
The old timers wanted to go out and start up their cars and let them idle... Younger members were like "no, you don't need to do that any more... Still you'd find some sitting parked in their vehicles for five or more minutes after starting up waiting for the car to "warm up".
Confess only time do this is when vehicle has been sitting for a few days and it is really cold, *and* have ice/snow to clear off windshields, roof and hood. Otherwise just get in, start things up and roll. Yeah it may take a bit for heat to reach full blast but other than that.....
ahhh.....I live in MN and park my truck outside, so YES I hit the remote start in the house and let it warm up a good 15 minutes before I leave. Tonight's and tomorrow lows are -12 & -10. Brrrr.....
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Tonight's and tomorrow lows are -12 & -10. Brrrr.....
