You can drive just not batshit crazy take it easy till you see either your oil temp gauge if you have one (mine starts reading at 85*) or the coolant gauge moving. granted the coolant gauge will start moving sooner than the oil temp will however.

This 100%. That LCD/LED screen that looks like an iPad isn’t going to break unless you rip it out. With the exception of a dead pixel, why do iPads “go bad” and get replaced? Either the battery goes bad, it breaks due to damage, or it no longer works with the newest software. Well that screen in your car is in one…

“Manual transmissions are better than automatics!”

Here’s a good myth that’s become less true with the constant evolution of automatics. Hell, my 2014 Subaru Legacy can be driven as a manual using paddles on the steering wheel. I have not tried it though.

For some of us, it’s how we learned to drive. My father always…

Fuck you all for even bringing this into the conversation. I understand octane, but clearly half of the people commenting do not. (I also understand combustion chamber design, which few other people do.)

“I need a 3-row SUV to cart around all the stuff I need for my one child.”

This.  Stop in neutral, engage parking brake, let off regular brake and let car settle, and then put in park.  The parking pin should be the back-up, not the primary catch.

Do... we need to call the cops?

I’ve had people tell me you should “put premium in once a month to help clean things out”. Yeah, it doesn’t work like that. 

My neighbor used to do this with his Harley at 6 am outside our bedroom window. 15 minutes of “BUP BUP BUP BUP BUP BUP” while he warms it up IN THE SUMMER.

It’s called a hand brake, and it’s for turning

In most automatics, the pawl that holds the car in “park” is pretty small, and they do wear out over time. You ever put a car in park on a hill, let off the brake, and feel the car roll back? Then, when you put it in drive, there’s a noticable “clunk”? That’s wear. Use the parking brake.

then let it heat up I guess? the number of people that live on highways is much smaller in number to the people that don’t.

The lowest mileage used car is best. This is both in normal car shopping and in collector car shopping.

The “you should warm up the engine before driving off” myth bugs the heck out of me. My brother-in-law still does it, sitting in my driveway for 5 minutes before leaving (course, the main issue there might be that I just want him gone after he visits).

It’s azteks all the way down.

the myth of letting the engine heat up on a cold morning. it used to make sense because the old engines were deficient in a lot of ways but now it’s really not an issue unless you are going from 0 to 60 within the first 60 seconds of driving.

There’s that one about how the Earth floats through space on the back of a giant Pontiac Aztek...

I do know where this one came from though... If you grew up in the 70s, you remember your parents trying to get rid of that car before it blew up because it was shitty malaise era garbage. Old habits die hard.

Wouldn’t that just be a countermyth? How many AWD systems transmit anything to the rear wheels until slippage is detected? Are they providing engine braking if they’re not transmitting power?

The biggest myth is that women somehow notices what car you drive. In reality women no more notice or care about the car you drive, than you notice or care about what brand handbags she is carrying.