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Old 11-30-2005, 04:05 AM
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Default Re: Warming up the engine in the morning - will this help or hurt mpg?

I've never seen a car that was not louder running cold- there's a lot of cold metal clanging around that isn't fitting together as well as when its warmed up.

(Although the true nerd in me cries out "reduced phonon scattering within the metal crystalline lattice at lower temperatures resulting in increased acoustic propagation" )
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