Warming Your Car Up

[pstovall]

Wow!  I guess I didn't realize that people had to plan car warming into their schedule.  I don't think I've ever had to warm up a car more than a handful of times.  If there was ice on the windshield when I was going to work, I would turn on the heat and windshield wipers or use a scraper, but that didn't take but a couple of minutes.

[MichelleHW101]

I use about 10min at most but then I need to leave so however warm the car is, I go. 

[vg7405]

Like many people on here, I usually let it run for 5 - 10 minutes. However, I've been reading some articles that claim it isn't wise to warm it up. Being originally from a Northern state, I would think that this would be an absolute must!

[dancer139]

I do warm my car up in the winter time,,,  but usually only for about 5 minutes.  My heater warms up really fast, so by the time I turn the car on,,,  put my coat on and walked to my car it is warm ( garage not attached to house, and It has a automatic start)  plus  my seats  have a warmer also      so Nice in the winter !!

[bretay]

maybe a few minutes...hubby lets it warm up longer than i do...

[gaylasue]

I had to warm my car up this morning to get the frost off the windshield!  It's supposed to be in the mid-70's today but was chilly this morning.

[clickers]

I'm not sure if I should be warming up my car, but I don't.

[de3ik]

Where I live the winters used to be worse years and years ago when it would snow more and get much colder so we would warm the car every time for about 10 minutes or so. Plus we kept a blanket in the car for extra heat since below zero winters were common back then. I'm not saying they don't happen now, but for some reason more recently our winters have been much milder and warming the car isn't as necessary. However even when it got colder more recently we didn't warm our car, because we didn't feel like going out early and waiting for it to warm up. Wasting gas as the OP said is another thing we especially can't afford to do now.

[sbenkoski]

I'm so lucky i have a hearted garage and also its pretty cool in the summer .

[mrsmere]

I have a remote start and use it year round.  It runs for 12 minutes at a time and we don't have to go outside to start the car.   If it's really cold, I run it twice  I will also use it if I'm out running errands because I don't like cold.  In the summer I run it usually once.  We have remote starts on all our vehicles.