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[Mattw_83]

Hey im assuming this is fairly normal granted its been pretty cold?? Drips a bit of water too. It all stops once its warm?

Just dont remember my old clubsport doing it quite as much...

[2LV8ETR]

If you're talking about out of the exhaust, it's normal.

It's just condensation.

[Skyspeed33]

Hey im assuming this is fairly normal granted its been pretty cold?? Drips a bit of water too. It all stops once its warm?

Just dont remember my old clubsport doing it quite as much...

If it stops when warm its nothing to worry about! Mine does the same when cold.

[mad082]

just check your coolant (when cold of course), as long as it's fine then it is just the usual condensation.

[Krishy]

+1 to the mentioned above.....my car blows a heap of smoke when cold start and as soon as it warms up a bit then its all sweet......just try not to drive it when its really cold lol

nothing to worry about mate

[WET-25T]

Even toyota echos do it at 5:30am on the way to work

[Dorigecko]

don't warm up your car in the morning. bad for your engine. wears your plugs, allows unburnt fuel to condense and drip down past your rings into your oil diluting it.

more relative to what you're talking about, if you warm it up for like three to ten minutes it will take MUCH longer to get rid of the water vapour. Doesn't hurt your engine... it's what it's designed to do. Warming up for 5 minutes is an old wives tale. or husbands. either way, it's lame and misguided.

best way to warm up your car in the morning and get rid of the water vapour is to nanna it until it reaches just under operating temperature (a safe temp is about 70-75°, suitable op temp being between 80° and 95°C).

Try it out, the lot of you. If there's one thing you can trust, it's a dude on the internet. (That dude is Doctor Karl, bitches.)

Edited July 13, 2009 by Dorigecko

[2LV8ETR]

^^^^^^ ?????????? WTF ??????????

[RB25PWR]

LOL

[Turbz RB-25]

don't warm up your car in the morning. bad for your engine. wears your plugs, allows unburnt fuel to condense and drip down past your rings into your oil diluting it.

more relative to what you're talking about, if you warm it up for like three to ten minutes it will take MUCH longer to get rid of the water vapour. Doesn't hurt your engine... it's what it's designed to do. Warming up for 5 minutes is an old wives tale. or husbands. either way, it's lame and misguided.

best way to warm up your car in the morning and get rid of the water vapour is to nanna it until it reaches just under operating temperature (a safe temp is about 70-75°, suitable op temp being between 80° and 95°C).

Try it out, the lot of you. If there's one thing you can trust, it's a dude on the internet. (That dude is Doctor Karl, bitches.)

[mad082]

while it is a bit off topic, i am also against the letting your car sit there and idle to warm up. the main reasons being that it takes longer for a car to warm up when it's just sitting there idling, which means the car is running for longer at colder temps. the other reason being that it doesn't warm up the oil in the gearbox or diff.

another thing to take into consideration is that if you run your car for 10 mins every morning before you start driving, over a 1yr period, that is nearly 61 hours of running that your engine has done that hasn't been taken into account on your odometer, which means more than likely not taken into account on your servicing frequency. and not to mention the extra fuel you are using.

[Mattw_83]

good to hear it seems normal.

I dont really let it warm up by idling the car for extended periods. I just dont rev it or accelerate hard until its at normal temp...

[bubba]

30-60secs then I drive it. Stagea (being auto) I cruise along at 1500rpm while people behind me hurl abuse. Skyline I shifted at around 1000rpm (3L ftw ) till it was out of cold start (>65deg).

Just don't load it up.

Edited July 15, 2009 by bubba

[tridentt150v]

Driving the car like Nanna for the first few minutes warms up everything, gearbox, diff, motor etc

If you warm it up in the driveway then you are only warming the motor.