Maniacs at seaports, engine abuse

[Brett Dikeman]

At 3:14 PM -0600 12/21/03, Todd Young wrote:

>You don't want to get in, start it up and through it in gear and go

The owner's manual is quite clear on this.  Get in car, drive.  Do 
not 'warm up'.  I think the 200q20v manual might say something about 
driving it gently until the engine has warmed up slightly; I don't 
recall.

You will do more damage letting it idle, because engine 
components(piston+sleeve for example) don't reach design temperature 
nearly as fast as they do under load.

This is the same reason why colder thermostats cause cylinder wear- 
the tolerances are carefully designed to be perfect at the 
temperature the thermostat is set for.

Brett
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