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      11-05-2015, 05:03 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by xpl0sive View Post
exactly, it's no different than letting the car warm up before driving. I would rather let the car idle normally at 700-800RPM for a few minutes, than having it idle at 1,500RPM for 90 seconds waking up the whole neighbourhood.
it's not 90 seconds, more like 15-20, quite down after that, I'm of the opinion that deleting the cold start cycle might do more bad than the small benefit of not having a loud cold start, we simply do not know what other functions are programmed into the cold start cycle
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