Stop Doing This To Your Car in The Winter!

Stop wasting your hard earned gas money.

I'm here to debunk the most common myth of winter driving. I will be you a quarter that you went out to your car this morning and warmed it up for at least 5 minutes before you drove to work.

We've all heard that it is important to warm up your car, for say five minutes, before driving it. We are all guilty of it.

Well, that isn't true one bit. NOT AT ALL. All you are doing is wasting gas money.

Now, older cars which relied on carburetors as a engine component which needed to warm up to work well. Without warming it up, the carburetor would not necessarily be able to get the right mix of air and fuel and the car might stall out according to the Chicago Tribune.

Modern cars use electronic fuel injection, which uses sensors to supply fuel to the engine and get the right air and fuel mix. The sensors monitor and adjust to different temperatures. This makes warming up the car irrelevant.

Auto experts say you should warm up your car no more than 30 seconds before you start driving it. The rest is just a waste of gas and time.