[Biturbos4] Re: cold weather starting and driving the s4

[Mike]

I let mine warm up for 10 minutes even though the owner's manual states 
that it's not necessary (and wastes fuel / causes smog)  but that's just 
my preference.

Mike

Russell Romano wrote:

>My approach, in the 2.7T A6 is to start the car and essentially begin driving right away.  I BABY it very gingerly for the first 1 to 2 miles.  For me there are no highways or other points where I HAVE to accelerate hard in that span.  I'm careful to not get the turbos spun up to far and I generally hold the RPMs under 2500ish.
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>I do this until my water temp is fully up to normal operating conditions (needle vertical).  It takes forever for my oil temp gauge to show much in cold weather so I don't pay much attention to it for warm-up.
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>I follow this EXACT same protocol regardless of the temperature.... it just comes up to temp much more quickly when it is warm out!
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>I also park in a garage both at home and at work... so I never really have a 10 degree F cold start.  In those cases I tend to let it warm up for 30 seconds or so just so that it runs smoothly, then I pull away.
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>On cooldown I just drive the last mile or two before my destination very casually.  As with the warm-up, no hard acceleration or revving above 2500.  When I get to where I'm going I just shut it off.
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>This may be overkill (or it may be insufficient).  This is the first turbo I've ever owned so I'm a little paranoid of cooking the turbos.  It also doesn't help that I have a 6 mile commute, so I do a lot of driving where it JUST gets warmed up before being shut off.
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>-Russ
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ken kgrant [mailto:kaspgr at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 11:15 AM
>To: Biturbos4 at audifans.com
>Subject: [Biturbos4] Re: cold weather starting and driving the s4
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>with the cold weather upon us (or atl least for some
>folks), how would one handle the starting and drivng
>of the s4?
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>this is what i do, and i'd like to get some feedback:
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>start the car, let it run for about 4-5 minutes and
>then start driving but trying my best to keep the revs
>under 1800 so that the turbos won't kick in cold.  
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>however this is very difficult to do as you merge into
>traffic and to keep witht he flow (even at 35mph) the
>rpms tends to go above 1800.  this would be even more
>diffcult if you had to get on a highway immediatley
>and hit 65mph.
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>is there a solution?
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>thx
>ken
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