Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:29:10 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: A couple of questions.
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It is not good for most cars to be left to warm up.
Really..
it's a very bad practice..
high rpm, no load ...
it's an extremely rough thing to do on any car ..
particularly gasoline ones.
start it as gently as you can ..
then within half a minute ...or 'right away' ..drive it gently.
Ideally, where there is some load on it.
A very bad cold start scenario is the first few miles are downhill.
You'd rather have gently uphill, or even level ..
but 'drive it right away, and gently' ....when warmed up some, then drive
normally.
also ...keep heater temp lever off or nearly off, until some temp is showing
on the gauge.
( if heaters are on full from stone cold...
it may never warm up properly , or take, way, way too long. )
also ..
waterboxer vanagons ..
they must be driven until fully warmed up, every time.
about the worst thing you can do for one is fire it up stone cold, then
drive only about two miles.
They don't like that at all.
I would even use a block heater of some sort...
just to reduce the amount of time it's running very cold.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "DW" <dcwilton@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:41 PM
Subject: A couple of questions.
> Howdy!
>
> I have a couple of issues with our 1991 Multivan that are causing me great
> consternation...
>
> Number 1. During very wet weather a pool of water develops on passenger
> side
> floor mat near the door (waffle-type rubber mats). It flows/drips from
> somewhere under the glove box area. The carpet sometimes gets damp,
> depending on the amount of rain, but doesn't usually make it through to
> the
> metal below. A friend has mentioned that it could be the seal around the
> antenna. Any other thoughts?
>
> Number 2. Upon start up, if I leave the van to warm it, the tachometer
> will
> gradually creep up to 2500 RPMs. Usually a good revving will decrease the
> RPMs, but if not warm, the car will take a while for this issue to
> resolve.
> Once it is resolved, it idles perfectly (~950 RPMs). Any ideas other than
> live with it?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> DW
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