{"id":1637,"date":"2017-12-21T00:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T00:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/www\/www.preminsure.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2023-01-16T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T19:51:41","slug":"idling-your-car-during-winter-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/idling-your-car-during-winter-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Idling Your Car During Winter Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have heard idling your car is necessary so it warms up before driving it during winter months.\u00a0 For that reason many of us living in cold and snowy places turn our vehicles before we have to drive.\u00a0 But experts believe we have fallen victim to a myth that is doing more harm than good to your vehicle.\u00a0 As idling your car during winter only wastes fuel and strips oil from components such as cylinders and pistons that help your engine run.<\/p>\n<h3>Origins of the Myth<\/h3>\n<p>The basis for this myth\u00a0dates back to before 1980\u00a0when engines relied on carburetors to keep the car engine pumping.\u00a0 From the 1980s onward, electronic fuel injection now powers today&#8217;s engines with a sensor,\u00a0which lacked in carburetor run cars,\u00a0to feed cylinders the right air and fuel mixture.\u00a0 Back then it was important for your car to run for a few minutes to allow your carburetor to warm up before driving.<\/p>\n<h3>How Is Idling Harmful<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Idling your vehicle increases the amount of exhaust\u00a0in\u00a0our air.\u00a0 Exhaust contains many pollutants linked to asthma, allergies, heart disease and other health problems.<\/li>\n<li>Idling wastes fuel and money.\u00a0 According to the <em>Consumer Energy Center, <\/em>two minutes of idling uses the same amount of gas a driving for 1 mile.<\/li>\n<li>Operating vehicles emits gases from its tailpipe contributing to climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Avoid Unnecessary Idling<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you will\u00a0be waiting for longer than 10 seconds turn your engine off, as idling wastes more gas than restarting engine.<\/li>\n<li>Best way to warm up engine is by easing into your drive, avoid revving your engine and not by idling.<\/li>\n<li>Warm up the inside of your car by driving do not idle as you are breathing in exhaust that leaks into your vehicle.\u00a0 If you are parked and waiting it is healthier to get out of your vehicle and go inside a building or store.<\/li>\n<li>Always turn your engine off if waiting for someone in a parking lot or\u00a0picking kids up at school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have heard idling your car is necessary so it warms up before driving it during winter months.\u00a0 For that reason many of us living in cold and snowy places turn our vehicles before we have to drive.\u00a0 But experts believe we have fallen victim to a myth that is doing more harm than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepremiumadvantage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}