Imagine this: it’s a frosty winter morning, you step into your car, start the engine — and while you sip your coffee or scrape ice off the windshield, the engine gently idles. Feels responsible, right? Cozy even. But what if I told you that those few extra minutes of “warming up” might be quietly turning your beloved car into a ticking time bomb — slowly corroding its engine from the inside?
In fact, mounting evidence shows that prolonged idling in cold weather — long considered an act of care — may be one of the worst things you can do for a modern engine. Today I’m here to show you why that’s true, how this myth survived for decades, and what you should really do instead to protect your ride.
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