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I think Muir was basically correct, the advice you usually get is for water-cooled vehicles, a different breed of cat. If you think about it, what you have is like an air-cooled aircraft engine. You don't run those up to full power until they're warmed up. Everything has to be expanded to the proper dimensions before all the clearances and such are as designed. With the smaller thermal mass of the VW as opposed to the aircraft engine, it really doesn't take that long to get up to running temp. I'd heard about the timer for the gas heater on the T4s, but hadn't heard about one for the ignition. You'd have to have an interlock with the tranny on a manual car, I could just see the thing firing up at 6 am and putting itself through the wall because you'd left it in gear the night before. On 10 Jun 99 22:42:42 +0100, you wrote: >I have been reading John Muir's book. It's very nice, wish there was >something similar for my Volvo. > >I'm interested in what you guys think about his warming up advice. He says >to leave the engine a short time to warm up before driving off. Everything >else I ever read said that you should drive off right away to make sure the >oil is distributed properly by bearings which are under load. > >I'm prepared to think different for a VW engine. > >A friend of my mum had a type 4 wagon which had a self timer and could >start itself in the morning. Perhaps that wasn't as daft as I thought... >although illegal on the road here. > >aedan > > >1971 VW fastback >1989 Volvo 240GL > >Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with own >confusion. > >We shall prevail. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe