Winter fuel economy/power

[Fidelity101]

Originally Posted by yeti

I get bad fuel mileage in winter, it takes my car easily 10-15minutes to warm up.. and by that time I can be at my destination. It depends on how cold it is for me, if I want to try to have the cabin warm or not.

But my heater sucks and you can't use it until the car is warm even then it doesn't blow hard. Once with it on I drove about 30 highway miles and the car still was cold.. so I turned it off the the gauge finally went to were it was supposed to be. (who knows?)

everyone does, and its always weighing the "well do I wait 15 minutes let it warm up, then drive 2 minutes or just say fuck it and go" and your car doing 30 miles on the highway doing highway speeds was getting a lot of cold air to the radiator and such so when you stopped moving the hotter temps began to show since there is no longer a mass quantity of cold air moving past the engine, engine bay, radiator.