Do you warm up your car (let it idle) before driving it on cold days?

[BNG]

Two things, use a synthetic oil like AmsOil or Royal Purple, and you'll do far less damage even on cold starts. As said earlier, if the oil pressure is up and it's getting to the top end your golden. Second, the auto tranny warms better in gear. Your better off letting your car idle while cleaning windows and then driving slowly out of the neighborhood or down the road a few miles than idling in the driveway forever.
Diesels warm up under load so a brief warming and then a slow drive is better. Those clowns who start their pickups to let them run for ten minutes in the driveway crack me up. And yes, letting the turbo cool will help extend the life. Shutting it down hot leaves to much heat in it and the oil gets burnt. It will act as an abrasive. Kano labs sells Kreen for cleaning up carbon deposits and it works. I have also used ATF mixed in the oil for diesels to clean them up just before an oil change.

 

[Smurfy]

totw!!

 

[Mr. dB]

Two things, use a synthetic oil like AmsOil or Royal Purple, and you'll do far less damage even on cold starts.

The factory fill for my car was Castrol Syntec. It's even printed on the oil filler cap.

 

[BNG]

The factory fill for my car was Castrol Syntec. It's even printed on the oil filler cap.

All I can say is follow the money. Somewhere in the incestuous hierarchy one probably owns stock in the other.
Test results for AmsOil and Royal, and Redline have always beaten the others. Most aren't full synthetic they have a mineral oil base stock and they blend it.

I actually think Castrol makes some pretty good stuff, but would pick AmsOil over the others.

 

[PICK3]

All I can say is follow the money. Somewhere in the incestuous hierarchy one probably owns stock in the other.
Test results for AmsOil and Royal, and Redline have always beaten the others. Most aren't full synthetic they have a mineral oil base stock and they blend it.

I actually think Castrol makes some pretty good stuff, but would pick AmsOil over the others.

Whatever modern dino oil that's on sale will provide more than ample protection with 3-5k oil changes for normal applications.

All perphiheal components will wear out before the engine suffers an oil related failure.

Who keeps a car >200k miles anyways?

 

[Mr. dB]

I actually think Castrol makes some pretty good stuff, but would pick AmsOil over the others.

I'll never use AMSOil products until they drop the MLM scam and make them available retail. I refuse to support MLM. Amway makes good soap too, but I won't buy it.

 

[RottenWillow]

I'll never use AMSOil products until they drop the MLM scam and make them available retail. I refuse to support MLM. Amway makes good soap too, but I won't buy it.

Agree on that point. Always irked the hell out of me that they won't simply make it available OTC.

 

[RottenWillow]

Whatever modern dino oil that's on sale will provide more than ample protection with 3-5k oil changes for normal applications.

Unless there's forced induction involved. We had used oil essayed at Blackstone Labs and the super premium stuff definitely makes a different if your engine is being stressed and heated to that degree.

 

[Mr. dB]

Whatever modern dino oil that's on sale will provide more than ample protection with 3-5k oil changes for normal applications.

All perphiheal components will wear out before the engine suffers an oil related failure.

Who keeps a car >200k miles anyways?

3-5K oil changes are a waste of money and oil. Most new cars have oil change intervals of 7500 miles or more. With synthetic those intervals are more like 10K.

 

[javaguru]

Not unless it's below zero Celsius.