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Originally Posted by Lobo1186
so one car out of thousands which sit idle every day... and this is concrete evidence that idling is bad?
coming from NE ive left cars idling along with pretty much everybody I know for extended periods of time with no issue. I even left (by mistake) my car on all day while I went skiing... car still runs fine to this day.
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It's not that it's necessarily bad, it's just completely unnecessary, wasteful, and illegal in a lot of places.
The cars that overheat likely have cooling system issues that would have popped up somewhere down the line anyway. Any car with a properly functioning cooling system should have no problem keeping the car in spec at idle for a long period of time.
Really sucks about the BMW, but then again, they aren't exactly known for their quality cooling systems. Just the opposite, in fact... they have crap cooling systems that have a tendency to fail.