How long to warm up a 10 year old Boxster?

[brjak]

Mine is 17 years old. I idle in driveway for 3-4 minutes. Than drive passively until it warms up. Usually only another 5-7 minutes.

[mnc-i]

Reference warming up your Boxster

1. My 1999 Boxster has 229,500 miles.

2. I live in Central Texas, so it doesn't really get all that cold here (but how cold is all relative:-)

3. Since the Boxster is a modern car with electronic fuel injection, I don't recommend wasting fuel to warm it up. I just don't rev it (past 2500 rpm) until it reaches operating temperature.

4. Having said that, if I lived in Alaska or somewhere where it is normally at or below freezing I would let the car idle in the garage (with the door open) for 3 - 5 minutes before I drive off.

Just my two-cents
MNC-I

[Luv2Box]

Modern cars (older Boxsters included) do not require the warm up times that older air cooled motors needed. Modern electronics and lubricants allow closer tolerances when cold than the air cooled motors that needed to warm up to reach running temperature tolerances. Like many others here I start mine up and drive off keeping the revs at a sane level until operating temp is reached.

[kk2002s]

Idling is bad
Manual basically says be ready to drive when you start it
I wait till Secondary air pump stops, give it a a few 2k RPM gentle revs and just take it easy until temps get up

Like most that's 2-3 minutes for cold start

[kk2002s]

So after a little re-think and some thought to JFP's input I timed things out before a Christmas present 2 1/2 hour drive
Timed things out
90 seconds for SAP to stop running
Approx. 3 mins for warm air to begin blowing (It was 55 degrees out)

So I have always waited till SAP stopped and a few easy 2K revs before driving
So waiting for a little warm air to blow is really not much more than my typical warmup