15-02-2013, 12:48 PM
There's always lots of different points of view on this subject.
Personally, I just start up and drive off, but I'm very very gentle on the throttle for a while until something indicates on the water temperature gauge (would be nice to have an oil temp gauge but this is good enough to give you a basic idea of the time it takes the engine to warm through a bit).
I imagine in very extreme circumstances (-10° or lower) then a different approach might benefit the car.
End of the day though, it's an old French car worth about as much as a bag of sand (at most) so I bet a lot of HDi engines get a good thrashing from cold by less sympathetic owners!
Personally, I just start up and drive off, but I'm very very gentle on the throttle for a while until something indicates on the water temperature gauge (would be nice to have an oil temp gauge but this is good enough to give you a basic idea of the time it takes the engine to warm through a bit).
I imagine in very extreme circumstances (-10° or lower) then a different approach might benefit the car.
End of the day though, it's an old French car worth about as much as a bag of sand (at most) so I bet a lot of HDi engines get a good thrashing from cold by less sympathetic owners!
Disclaimer: The above is not to be taken to heart and is probably a joke, grow up you big girl.
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