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Let's hope you'll never need a crate engine.

You probably should, regardless of how long the frames and bodies last. And what do you do if it's -14? Leave the engine idling for days?

Really? Does the Furd manual say so, or is that your interpretation? My vehicles sure seem to be ready to run once the engine does.

Your pickup was on high idle, in an effort not to idle. It knows better.

I do let them warm up before asking them to actually work. In my case that's done by driving up the driveway, then about two miles or so of gentle driving, or whatever distance it takes to get the oil up to at least 150 degrees or so. This obviously takes less time/distance if the trailer and...

You should've asked me two years ago, before I sold a few.. Now I'm down to just three of them. But it's basically irrelevant. I can't even abuse a rental vehicle by idling it, so why would I subject my own to it?

I couldn't care less what the EPA thinks about it, but I want the engine to warm up faster...so I drive instead of idling. If at what looks like it'd be a three or more minute stop at roadwork, I shut the engine off. Did I mention that I don't like to idle? Not my vehicles, not myself.

Can't say that I'm up on EPA tests or ratings, either. All I know for sure is that our mileages in late model vehicles generally exceed their ratings by quite a bit. Of course, we really don't know what any city mileage would be. Back-in-the-day cars, huh? To me, those didn't really have any...

It is possible. But is it likely that a European car manufacturer had the foresight to include that sound advice in the Sixties? Besides, since when is warm-up included in the EPA ratings? I thought that was based on city and highway driving, not falling asleep at the wheel and forgetting to...

At that mileage it should pretty much be broken in already, and not much left for the magnets to catch. In the first 500 miles they tend to catch plenty. Of course, when/if you start seeing metal debris on them at some point in the future, it is not good.

My first car, a well worn '65, came with the owners manual which stated that it's better to drive off than to idle the engine. And all these years later that still seems to hold true. No engine that I know of likes to idle, not even diesels that many seem to think has to idle while getting...

I do it after two or three days, but only for about four or five seconds. Sure couldn't hurt to get the oil ready for the startup.

My '18 OE battery is still going strong. Never been disconnected.

I can relate. I bought a spare wheel for mine since the older ones I like are hard to come by. So far that "insurance" has worked.

On the positive side, you can only see one side of the car at a time.

What did your car do wrong to deserve that punishment??

I'm curious about those satin wheels...if they're OE.

No, I didn't. When my girlfriend called the dealer she was told it has a "kill switch". Thanks to @Hellcatcfp we found out it has an Igla. Just no instructions or a second fob.

Oh, the hardship.That start button requires a fair amount of physical strength to depress, as does the brake pedal, come to think of it. On the positive side, it doesn't often get down below -10 here, and by being in the vehicle when it starts (like God intended) I can hear and see if...