People of Lemmy that take more than 5 seconds to start your car and drive, what are you doing?

peskywarrior@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 49 points –

As the title says...what are you all doing?

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Letting the oil circulate before putting load on the engine. Only needs an extra 10-15 seconds, or the time it takes me to scrape during the winter months. No time needed if it was recently running.

Is your engine >30 years old?

No. What modern marvel keeps oil from pooling in the lowest level after hours of disuse?

Oil pumps? Seriously though 10-15 seconds doesn't sound excessive at all. I would be surprised if anyone is actually in gear and putting serious load on their engine/trans in under 10 seconds.

15 sec is plenty. After 15 sec all of your engine's oil has traveled through the pump and through the whole system 1 - 1.5 times.