2023 Forte Takes A LONNNG Time To Warm Up

Yes... it takes a long time... 15 minutes for mine to fully warm up if sitting in my driveway waiting for the heater to do something.. or 5+ minutes if I just jump in and drive while freezing to death with fogged up windows..

I put my '22 into sport mode as soon as I pull out of the driveway. That seems to help it warm up faster. The Forte is definitely not a cold weather car. 😬😬

The gauge in the cluster hits center at 140 F. My 2.0L also takes forever to warm up. My Land Rover with the (crap) 4.6 V8 also has a 180 t-stat and it gets there in a hurry. Thermostat opening temp doesn’t contribute to taking it long to warm up, it only limits the temp it warms up to

Glad someone posted this my 21 LXS fits the category takes a long time for heat to warm the cabin and I live in the south

Weird why these take so long. Glad to know its normal but bummed that it isnt something that be fixed.

Part of the reason is the efficiency of modern engines...they run so much cooler then engines of yesteryear. There is no way in heck a 50s-60s-or 70s engine could run with a plastic intake manifold, much less a plastic valve cover - like our engines have!. Also, there are a number of coolant by-passes and a water cooled oil cooler that results in it taking a little longer to reach operating temperatures.

Our dinky motors are all aluminum.. heating up too fast is a good way to shred stuff, head gaskets etc....

My GT warms up faster than our Tucson diesel does, by a fair margin - but it still takes ~10min or so in the middle of winter.

Hmm, I think our 2.0 engines warm up pretty quick! I had a Cast Iron V6 before my forte, and THAT took a long time to warm up. It would take almost 10 minutes drive at highway speeds, during cold weather, before the coolant needle was in the middle. Nothing was wrong with it, that’s just how it was. Modern engines warm up way faster when you start driving them lightly. It’s not the best for them to idle for long periods at a time, especially upon start up. It can lead to oil dilution. I start my car, what for high idle to come down to +/- 1k RPM and then I drive and just keep it under 2.5k rpm until I have reached operating temp.

I just let mine warm up 20-30 seconds then drive it gently for a few miles. It warms up in about 5 minutes or so. I had a 97' Ford Ranger years ago with a 4.0 liter cast iron block and that took forever to warm up. I also had a '09 Nissan Murano before the Forte and it warmed up similar time to the Forte. A load on the engine will speed up the warm up time.

Thanks all. Lots of interesting info. One of the reasons why I need to let mine warm up quite often before driving the interior windows always seem fogged up. Sometimes it is a visual buildup of drops on the inside. There are no leaks that I can find and I use the AC setting and Defrost but it doesnt seem to help. If I drive my short drive to work it is worse. If I take it for a longer drive it is not an issue.

Interestingly I NEVER have this fogging moisture issue with my wife's Mini or my Ram 1500.

Hmmm
Our '16 with 1.8 takes only a few minutes to get heat 🙂 even when it starts at the 40s dF.
Normal operating temp is 191 dF, per Scangauge.
in Mobile AL area

Keep in mind that the middle of the gauge is 140 F and operating temp is 200 F. It takes like 5 minutes after the gauge hits the middle ( which itself takes forever under like 55 F ambient) to get fully up to temp for mine. Super annoying when I need to defrost the windows and have to wait forever to get heat

deeve said:

Thanks all. Lots of interesting info. One of the reasons why I need to let mine warm up quite often before driving the interior windows always seem fogged up. Sometimes it is a visual buildup of drops on the inside. There are no leaks that I can find and I use the AC setting and Defrost but it doesnt seem to help. If I drive my short drive to work it is worse. If I take it for a longer drive it is not an issue.

Interestingly I NEVER have this fogging moisture issue with my wife's Mini or my Ram 1500.

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Are you sure the AC drain tube is not plugged?

ForteGT2 said:

Are you sure the AC drain tube is not plugged?

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No, I am not. Being so new it would have to be blocked from the factory probably. Where would I look for that?

Thank you. I will check that out. Will it drop water even if the weather is colder?