How long does your car to warm up?

[GTI-Ross]

Hey up guys. How long does your car take to warm up roughly?

With these cold morning i go out 5 mins early and fire her up. letting it idle for 5 mins, i come out and the temp gauge hasnt moved at all. still freezing 

No i know that a good sign of the cooling power   but my old focus would start to warm up in 5 mins.

Takes at least another 5 mins of driving (including the 5 mins on the drive) to actually get warmish.

Other people have the same?

[graeme]

I do the same as you , with the same effect .

[Tortaruga]

Don't bother idling-just a waste of fuel. Start it up and go pretty much immediately, but keep the revs down until the oil has warmed up. This is 5-10 minutes after the coolant gauge is at 90.

[Tortaruga]

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,8868.0.html

[homesqueeze]

Yeah, mine has always taken a long time to warm up. Just have to live with it!

[Breamy1990]

In this weather with my tdi i can be driving for 15mibutes before the temp guage moves :o

[MC71]

I drive off as soon as I turn the key, but never try and go above 2000 rpm until its warmed up, most cases this has not happened before I get to work at the moment. On my 5-10 min drive to and from work I'm not planning on driving the wheels of the car anyway so its no biggy for me.

 

[Gene Hunt]

Time of year for  all that horrible white mayo to build up round the oil filler cap.

[Kemnaychris]

Drive my car after a minute or 2 on idle as let oil go round everything then usually takes 3 miles at 50 mph then it hits
90 degrees :) advantage of my diesel was told has a aux heater but I get warm air very quickly less than a minute :-) can't complain on the cold days

[Snoopy]

In this weather with my tdi i can be driving for 15mibutes before the temp guage moves :o

You have to love the PD for this.... It takes me about 7 miles about 20 min before the heater even show a sine of any warmth each morning lately and about 12 miles before the gauge was at normal. I only do 14 miles 

[RedRobin]

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As said in the earlier thread on this same subject, I let the revs settle down to around just under 1,000 rpm before engaging gear and then take it easy staying in D-mode (DSG) until the water temp gauge starts to normailise.

It's all been discussed previously here: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,8868.0.html

[stealthwolf]

As above, there's no point in letting the car idle - you're doing more harm than good. The car is designed to be driven immediately and hence various parts of the car will warm up in the appropriate order. Letting the car idle means that some bits of it won't have been warmed up at all whilst others will be hot.

[Leeds s3]

As above drive the car straight away, i used to warm my cars up bit have read and been told by varies techies at work it does more harm. Get in and drive the car sensibley for the first 15 mins.

[Matto]

Everyone is different and have differing opinions on this. Personally I start up and away straight away. Take it nice and steady keeping it under 2k. Now in my opinion I would say the oil temp is more important the the water temp which is the reading you get on the gauge. As I have a Polar Fis I can see what the oil temp is doing and when it gets to say 40-50 degrees, I would think this is warm enough to not have to drive steadily anymore. At full hot running temp its around 88 degrees.

Now as someone mentioned above, with the PD diesel which mine is and if I were to go by the water temp gauge in the car, when it's at 0 or below I would have to do my daily commute of 13 miles which is mostly national speed limit with 30's here and there below 2k rpm. Mine still hasn't reached the 90 degrees running temp on the gauge by the time I get there.

[Eddie-NL]

idling the engine won't warm the engine up