I want to know what is the proper way to warm your car. I used to just sit in the garage for a couple mins. But i could have sworn i read in the owners book that you should not warm your car in idle. Anyone else see that or am i just trippin.

i just sit there for about a min and then drive easy until the light goes off.

enough for the oil to circulate the engine

You're right. The owners manual does say that you should just drive to warm up the car. I do just that, shifting at 3000rpms until the cold engine light goes off.

I sit for a minute and baby it until the cold engine light goes off. If it's under 40 degrees, I may sit for 2 minutes. On warm days, I just take off.

what are some of the things that can happen to our engines if we were to consistently drive off without warming our cars?

if you don't wamr it up it might wear and then in 350,000 miles you'll have to rebuild it :cry:

yeah my friend has a volvo with 315,000 miles orig engine tranny and 2nd clutch!!! and everythin works exept the clock. Nevr rebuilt it!!!