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Old 01-29-2013, 11:20 AM   #92 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RedDevil View Post
So ambient temperature does play a big role in the first 10 miles of a trip.
Before doing any ABA testing one should warm up the car for at least 10 miles, and probably much longer if the temperature is anything less than 24C / 75F (as your graph seems to bend at that point); otherwise the first A measurement would have relatively low MPG.
Absolutely! In fact, probably even longer as the transmission warms up more slowly than the engine.
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