2015 Lexus high RPM when idling?
02-25-20, 02:20 PM
#16
drives cars
Have you tried to drive a car that just sat in -45 degree Celsius weather without warming it up?
im in Canada and it gets that cold I’m winter. It would not even be possible to drive away, my car routinely has multiple inches of snow and ice on it, instrument controls partially frozen and barely work. Transmission shifts very hard, car accelerates like a snail until it warms up a bit.
Also try pulling on the highway and merging with cars doing 120-130km/h when ur car is cold. Now I’m in one of the most extreme climates in the world, someone living in Virginia or somewhere where there definition of “cold” is still 30 degrees warmer than where I’m from does not need to warm their car up like me.
That being said even on -40 Celsius days I only let it warm up about 3-5 min before taking off. I have to. I didn’t buy a 306 hp naturally aspirated v6 Lexus to worry about “wasting” gas for a few min while my car warms up a bit and melts some of the multiple inches of ice on my front and rear windshield during winter.
Summer time I give it about 30 seconds than take off.
im in Canada and it gets that cold I’m winter. It would not even be possible to drive away, my car routinely has multiple inches of snow and ice on it, instrument controls partially frozen and barely work. Transmission shifts very hard, car accelerates like a snail until it warms up a bit.
Also try pulling on the highway and merging with cars doing 120-130km/h when ur car is cold. Now I’m in one of the most extreme climates in the world, someone living in Virginia or somewhere where there definition of “cold” is still 30 degrees warmer than where I’m from does not need to warm their car up like me.
That being said even on -40 Celsius days I only let it warm up about 3-5 min before taking off. I have to. I didn’t buy a 306 hp naturally aspirated v6 Lexus to worry about “wasting” gas for a few min while my car warms up a bit and melts some of the multiple inches of ice on my front and rear windshield during winter.
Summer time I give it about 30 seconds than take off.
For someone in Texas, anything more than 10 seconds is probably excessive, even on the coldest day of the year there. Even where I live, with "real" winters that have snow, it rarely makes sense to just idle the car. I do it sometimes if there's ice on the windshield, to allow the defroster to help thaw it out a bit. Otherwise, the car drives fine when it's only 20 degrees F.
02-25-20, 02:36 PM
#17
Instructor
Notice the post author's location is "TX". For someone in Texas, anything more than 10 seconds is probably excessive, even on the coldest day of the year there. Even where I live, with "real" winters that have snow, it rarely makes sense to just idle the car. I do it sometimes if there's ice on the windshield, to allow the defroster to help thaw it out a bit. Otherwise, the car drives fine when it's only 20 degrees F.
For someone in Texas, anything more than 10 seconds is probably excessive, even on the coldest day of the year there. Even where I live, with "real" winters that have snow, it rarely makes sense to just idle the car. I do it sometimes if there's ice on the windshield, to allow the defroster to help thaw it out a bit. Otherwise, the car drives fine when it's only 20 degrees F.20 degrees F is like -6 Celsius, in my city that would a warm winter day, ppl would be outside walking having fun lol. I’d probably be in the backyard bbq’ing dinner. I’d give car 1 minute to warm up in that temp.
The cold days for me hit -40, -45 Celsius that’s like -50 degrees Fahrenheit, the car is literally frozen. Windows frozen shut. Both windshields frozen with inches of ice, car struggles to turn over and start, doors are frozen shut, hvac cluster barely lights up it’s so cold. The car drives like **** even after warming up a few min. Steering feels stiff, tranny shifts hard and slow, car barely accelerates. But again I’m literally in one of the coldest places in the world so most people who are used to weather that’s only 20, 30 degrees in the winter literally can’t fathom what it’s like starting and driving a car that’s sat overnight in -50 Fahrenheit.
02-25-20, 03:33 PM
#18
My bad didn’t see he was from tx, like I said if I lived there or any similar climate I’d give it 30 seconds just to give her a couple seconds to circulate everything,let the rpm drop a touch than drive.
20 degrees F is like -6 Celsius, in my city that would a warm winter day, ppl would be outside walking having fun lol. I’d probably be in the backyard bbq’ing dinner. I’d give car 1 minute to warm up in that temp.
The cold days for me hit -40, -45 Celsius that’s like -50 degrees Fahrenheit, the car is literally frozen. Windows frozen shut. Both windshields frozen with inches of ice, car struggles to turn over and start, doors are frozen shut, hvac cluster barely lights up it’s so cold. The car drives like **** even after warming up a few min. Steering feels stiff, tranny shifts hard and slow, car barely accelerates. But again I’m literally in one of the coldest places in the world so most people who are used to weather that’s only 20, 30 degrees in the winter literally can’t fathom what it’s like starting and driving a car that’s sat overnight in -50 Fahrenheit.
20 degrees F is like -6 Celsius, in my city that would a warm winter day, ppl would be outside walking having fun lol. I’d probably be in the backyard bbq’ing dinner. I’d give car 1 minute to warm up in that temp.
The cold days for me hit -40, -45 Celsius that’s like -50 degrees Fahrenheit, the car is literally frozen. Windows frozen shut. Both windshields frozen with inches of ice, car struggles to turn over and start, doors are frozen shut, hvac cluster barely lights up it’s so cold. The car drives like **** even after warming up a few min. Steering feels stiff, tranny shifts hard and slow, car barely accelerates. But again I’m literally in one of the coldest places in the world so most people who are used to weather that’s only 20, 30 degrees in the winter literally can’t fathom what it’s like starting and driving a car that’s sat overnight in -50 Fahrenheit.
I had a VW squareback. One day it was so cold, it wouldn't start, even with a push start with the manual transmission.
I got a thing to plug in to keep the oil warm overnight so I could start the car. Burlington, Vermont had sidewalk
snow plows, which I never saw in NY. I've been living in California in the Bay Area since 79 (grad school 77-79 in Fresno, Ca.) and I don't miss those winters at all. As Myron Cohen once said, Everybody's got to be somewhere.
I'm sure it's beautiful in Ontario.
02-25-20, 03:40 PM
#19
Instructor
I grew up in NY and went to college in Vermont. Not quite as cold as Ontario, but not too warm either.
I had a VW squareback. One day it was so cold, it wouldn't start, even with a push start with the manual transmission.
I got a thing to plug in to keep the oil warm overnight so I could start the car. Burlington, Vermont had sidewalk
snow plows, which I never saw in NY. I've been living in California in the Bay Area since 79 (grad school 77-79 in Fresno, Ca.) and I don't miss those winters at all. As Myron Cohen once said, Everybody's got to be somewhere.
I'm sure it's beautiful in Ontario.
I had a VW squareback. One day it was so cold, it wouldn't start, even with a push start with the manual transmission.
I got a thing to plug in to keep the oil warm overnight so I could start the car. Burlington, Vermont had sidewalk
snow plows, which I never saw in NY. I've been living in California in the Bay Area since 79 (grad school 77-79 in Fresno, Ca.) and I don't miss those winters at all. As Myron Cohen once said, Everybody's got to be somewhere.
I'm sure it's beautiful in Ontario.
Ive lived in Ontario my whole life, I can’t believe you’re lucky enough to live in California. I’m so jealous lol I can’t imagine how awesome calling Cali home would be compared to where I’m from. Im sure there’s cons, but weather/climate is unbeatable.
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02-26-20, 08:03 AM
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^^ While the weather remains cold, the political and social situation is heating up at an alarming rate.....
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