Car (or bike) Chat!

[Marco]

But driving is fun (or should be if your car is)! Take her out for a blast and boogie to some bangin' choons...

What isn't fun is sitting revving an engine for 20 mins lol, and it's not very good for the environment either...

Marco.

[Barry]

"and it's not very good for the environment either..."

How so?, the rpm would have been about the same. And driving in the rain is not fum to my way of thinking. If it's fine tomorrow I may take it out for a spin.

[Marco]

Leaving the environmental issue aside for a moment:

https://www.quora.com/What-bad-can-c...vving-it-a-lot

If you're sitting revving your engine (under no load) for 20 mins, at similar RPMs to those achieved when driving at, say, 50-60mph down a dual-carriageway, then that is fundamentally NOT good for the engine, mate

Rain or no rain, next time drive it!

Marco.

[Pigmy Pony]

But driving is fun (or should be if your car is)! Take her out for a blast and boogie to some bangin' choons...

What isn't fun is sitting revving an engine for 20 mins lol, and it's not very good for the environment either...

Marco.

Having your car ticking over for 20 minutes isn't very good for your own environment, taking it for a spin is worse for every bugger else's environment. Having said that, a car is more than just an engine, the suspension, brakes, coolant system etc all need to be "worked". Even one lap of the block is better than nothing

I agree that driving ought to be fun, but there isn't much of that to be had at the moment, what with the Covid travel restrictions. Just driving local is shit.

[InThe Sticks]

Revving an engine at anything over fast idle is pointless to top up a battery, it’ll make zero difference.
Alternators are regulated in output, so leaving it at idle compared to revving the engine is pretty much the same result.
Obviously if ones car has been sat for a while, then taking it for a spin is far more beneficial.
I’m failing a few cars for seized brake calipers/pads and warped discs (due to corrosion) because the cars have been sat for nearly a year.
Just a few miles a week would have prevented that happening, and kept the battery topped up.

[Pigmy Pony]

How you going on with the KTM Jon? You managing to give it any exercise? It's pretty bad round here, apparently coppers have been using ANPR to check if people out on the road are local

[struth]

How you going on with the KTM Jon? You managing to give it any exercise? It's pretty bad round here, apparently coppers have been using ANPR to check if people out on the road are local

Can still go a fair way local here. I usually give mine half an hr run twice a week. Even then you hear the discs for first half mile or so.

[Marco]

Having your car ticking over for 20 minutes isn't very good for your own environment, taking it for a spin is worse for every bugger else's environment. Having said that, a car is more than just an engine, the suspension, brakes, coolant system etc all need to be "worked". Even one lap of the block is better than nothing

I agree that driving ought to be fun, but there isn't much of that to be had at the moment, what with the Covid travel restrictions. Just driving local is shit.

Indeed, but I'd argue more fun that sitting revving the engine for 20 mins, while twiddling your thumbs (or something else, which may help relieve the monotony))

Plus it depends on the roads you have access to in your local area.

I've got a largely empty dual carriageway (A483), with a 70mph speed limit, less than 5 mins from my door, so taking the Brabster for a blast along that, to keep the engine, battery and car in good fettle, for me would be far preferable to the former, and which as Jon has eloquently stated, does next to hee-haw good.

Marco.

[Beobloke]

Leaving the environmental issue aside for a moment:

https://www.quora.com/What-bad-can-c...vving-it-a-lot

If you're sitting revving your engine (under no load) for 20 mins, at similar RPMs to those achieved when driving at, say, 50-60mph down a dual-carriageway, then that is fundamentally NOT good for the engine, mate

Rain or no rain, next time drive it!

Marco.

Regardless of whether it’s good for the car or the environment, I would have thought that the biggest issue would be that sitting revving a car IN A GARAGE wouldn’t be good for me! [emoji15]

[Marco]

Revving an engine at anything over fast idle is pointless to top up a battery, it’ll make zero difference.
Alternators are regulated in output, so leaving it at idle compared to revving the engine is pretty much the same result.
Obviously if ones car has been sat for a while, then taking it for a spin is far more beneficial.
I’m failing a few cars for seized brake calipers/pads and warped discs (due to corrosion) because the cars have been sat for nearly a year.
Just a few miles a week would have prevented that happening, and kept the battery topped up.

Spot on

Where the bloody hell have you been, mate? Hope all is well in your world

Marco.