How does the cold affect our car’s turbo in winter?
It is known by many that the temperature of the environment directly affects the operation and development of our engine and especially our turbo. Today we go into detail and tell you how the cold affects the turbo of our car. Do not forget that we upload blogs regularly, we advise you to be attentive to be informed in good hands.
How does it affect performance?
The turbo will not work properly until it reaches its ideal operating temperature, so we recommend that when you start the engine from cold, you wait a bit so that it has time to warm up, a couple of minutes is enough.
If you have to leave immediately, it is not advisable to activate the turbo when cold, so you should drive low revs until you check that the engine reaches optimum temperature.
How to avoid certain breakdowns?
When talking about low temperatures, it is logical to think that the lubricant of the parts has a high viscosity, so it will not lubricate in the best way. This means that the parts of the engine and the turbo will suffer greater friction and therefore greater wear in use.
As the temperature of the lubricant increases, it becomes more liquid and penetrates better into the parts so that they do not suffer damage when they rub against each other.
To avoid certain breakdowns, it is very important that both the engine and the turbo have a suitable temperature and follow the advice of specialists to extend the useful life of your turbo to the maximum.
