I've been told that you don't need to warm up your car, but to just drive slowly. I always warm it up, but is there no need? Also, how long should you warm up your car in the morning? I live in California so there aren't any extreme temperatures.

 

Just don't floor it until it's warmed up. Drive normal for the first 5 mins and you 'll be fine.

 

It will be worth your time to read your owner's manuel - which covers stuff like this. There are some unique twists to the s2000 - flat tires come to mind...

Just reread mine last night!

 

Personally, I warm the car for approximately 10 minutes ... All temperature bars reach 3 and oil temperature reads approximately 65 degrees celcius ~ 70 degrees celcius. That's just how I like it.

 

do not warm up your car. it only serves to increase engine damage. 1st of all, idling is a very slow way to warm up your car, you can warm up much faster by driving gently. second, idling causes lots of damage to engine parts( i think its because of uneven distribution of motor oil to engine parts). consumer reports claims that idling a warm engine for 30 seconds causes more damage than a cold start, imagine idling a cold engine. the best way is to warm up your car only up to one minute to get some motor oil to coat engine parts and then drive gently to warm the car to three bars. in the old days, people had to warm their car out of necessity. back then cars with carburators could run smoothly only after warmed up. with modern fuel injection systems, warming up a car is totally unnecessary unless you dont like the cold interior. by the way, dont use the heater until your car has completely warmed up, the heater will drain some heat off the engine and slow down the process.

 

I could go on forever about why the last post is wrong....the one about no need to warm up....but we don't have the disk space. I'll just say the poster needs to do a little more research. Let the car, all cars, warm up. It aids in lubricity and filtration; period end of sentence.

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Then why does the manual state not to warm it up but to drive it right away? It states that letting it warm up takes longer and that task is better served by just driving after starting it. I used to let my other cars warm up all the time. I don't know about damaging your engine as posted by s22k, the manual just says it takes longer to warm up if you let it idle.

I can't imagine the engineers at Honda would write something like that in the manual if it weren't true and would damage the engine.

 

You dont need to warm up the car, 10 seconds and you can go. 10 minutes is wayyyy toooo long. The head does not warm up evenly if its idleing, so you need to drive it. Just drive below 3000rpm until warm and then you can get on it.

 

Drive mine straight out the driveway every time immediately after starting the engine. I'm 100% in agreement with S22k.

The key issue is to gt the car up to temperature asap so the engine is no longer runing rich - all that excess fuel washes the oil off the cylinder bore and increases bore wear.

 

Being too lazy to look in the owners manual or do a search on this topic for all, I'll just offer this for what it's worth.

I seem to remember that car has some fairly "smart" engine controls that will keep it from rev-ing beyond certain RPM's until the engine is up to operating temps. I even seem to remember that there was RPM limits vs. engine temp indicator "bars" mentioned somewhere.

Of course it is always a good idea to let the car warm up before you stomp on it. Even with the protective circuitry, you'd look pretty foolish "stalling" in front of those young impressionable females, when you really meant to "peel out"!