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My coworker lives in a downtown apartment with a cramped parking garage and bought a full size pickup to drive 1.5 miles to the parking garage at our workplace to write code. I'm embarrassed for them and keep telling them to buy a bicycle
Driving 1.5miles twice a day everyday is a sure way to drain the car battery and multiply the wear and tear on the engine. Short trips are fine occasionally, but sooner rather than later the check engine light will pop up.
No? You anti car people know nothing about cars and it shows. Your alternator would have to be dead if it can't charge the battery in a mile.
Short trips don't damage the engine any more than normal wear and tear, it's not like they're redlining the entire mile and a half?
It depends. The battery issue is a nonissue, but the short trip can absolutely have an effect. It takes longer for your engine to reach true operating temperature than the oil/water coolant to get to temp. There's videos out there that can explain the equations for larger engines, but if the drive is less than 15 minutes, it's likely he's building up carboxylic acids from nonvaporized water in the pistons. That ain't a good thing.