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Originally Posted by JHZR2
Diesel generators are often idled or very lowly loaded until the oil gets up to temp.<>.
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Standby generators are usually fully loaded almost immediately, others like the ones in my coaches have about a 30second delay.
I'll agree that waiting until the internal temperatures are normal is always best, via driving with moderate loads and RPMs, but I don't feel that you're going to induce anything more than increased wear on the engine and with the years and miles on the car it's not like it's "swiss-watch" precision tolerances anymore, it'll probably still out-last the transmission and body.