# The eternal question: to warm or not to warm **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [December 20, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504 "2016-12-20T16:35:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/21 "2016-12-21T02:07:24Z")
Some people love the snow and the cold. I’m not one of them. If my budget were willing, I’d move to the Gulf coast of Florida in a heartbeat. That was my original retirement plan, but life had other plans for me. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/22 "2016-12-21T02:11:49Z")
> [@oldtimer-11](#): > > He hates driving in the snow, I kind of think it is fun I am with your son, fortunately retired lets me avoid it where we live because it does not stay long here. ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/23 "2016-12-21T02:33:15Z")
> [@eddo](#): > > 0 degrees??? -18 degrees??? I’d move … lol … I used to live in the mountains of Colorado, winter temperatures in that range you mention were not uncommon at all. Cold winter temperatures were never a bother to me. Cold and snowing Colorado winters, cold and rainy San Jose winters, pretty much the same thing. Maybe Colorado winters could be claimed even better than San Jose in some ways, with snow at least you can just brush it off your jacket. Rain soaks through. eeeks. The difference between San Jose and Colorado for me isn’t the winter, it’s the summer. Much cooler here in San Jose in the summer, especially at night. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/24 "2016-12-21T03:46:29Z")
The thing about winter is if you want it’s a good time to just sit back and do what you want inside. Projects, read, etc. and once in a while clean the driveway when it snows. We get away for a few weeks usually but with seasons, you have deadlines and objectives. Down there its all the same day after day except in the summer when it’s really hot. I don’t like driving in the winter though either. ---
**Author:** ![JoeMario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JoeMario](https://community.cartalk.com/u/JoeMario)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/25 "2016-12-21T12:09:15Z")
I too am in the camp of letting a vehicle warm up in the morning to meet any desire of cabin warmth. I occasionally hear: “it wastes gas”, I consider it less worse than the wasted gas used to go back to the grocery store for forgotten milk, (or equivalent non-essential local trips). ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/26 "2016-12-21T13:49:39Z")
Having grown up in Buffalo, NY, I miss the snow, but the things that keep me living in Florida are being able to ride a motorcycle all year and a low tax burden. I can’t fathom having to mothball my favorite mode of transportation for half of every year. The temperature this morning was a chilly 65 degrees (F), enough to make me wear a leather jacket and leather gloves, but not enough to force me to install the windshield, wear my cold weather gloves, or put on my leather chaps. You can keep your cold weather. I’ll keep riding. 😁 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/7/7c46059b6d0a7600bd564cde0b79916df370b0ea.gif) ---
**Author:** ![eddo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/eddo/32/2594_2.png) [@eddo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eddo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/27 "2016-12-21T17:18:46Z")
> [@bscar2](#): > > ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/2X/c/cac3c7e22671a120b7c6acb58143c85c51a4f854.jpg) > (posted to FB 12-12-16) > Not that many places to move to, eddo all those blue areas beat the snot out of 0 or -18… ---
**Author:** ![TwinTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@TwinTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TwinTurbo)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/28 "2016-12-21T18:36:28Z")
Here’s where the heated seats come into play. My seats were toasty warm in about a minute. I’ll never have another car without that feature…until I move to the tropics… ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/29 "2016-12-21T21:43:25Z")
LOL, I’ve heard that bun warmers were good. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![monkarl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@monkarl](https://community.cartalk.com/u/monkarl)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/30 "2016-12-22T02:41:05Z")
How about heated steering wheel? How do you like it guys? ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504/31 "2016-12-23T23:43:20Z")
…and then there is this perspective, from _Popular Mechanics_ magazine: > **[Warming Up Your Car in the Cold Just Harms the Engine](https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/ownership/warming-up-your-car-in-the-cold-just-harms-the-engine/ar-BBxuI1d?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UE01DHP)** > > The long-held notion that you should let your car idle in the cold is only true for carbureted engines. 😐 [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-eternal-question-to-warm-or-not-to-warm/97504.md?page=1)