
It’s Both Illegal AND Dangerous To Warm Up Your Car In North Carolina
Holy cold, Batman! These temperatures across the south are not cool, man. The whole lower half of the country is experiencing record lows, and with that will come some ideas and behaviors that have been tried and tested by the northerners who have gone through this before.
I finally splurged and got my wife a remote start because I got tired of her asking "Can you go start my car?" I get it, it's a nice thing not to have her out in the cold, but hey man, I'm cold too!
If you don't have a remote start, you should know that first off, leaving your car running with the keys inside can get you into trouble, starting with your car getting stolen.
Before it gets cold, make sure you remind everyone that you know it is illegal to warm up your car using the key and leaving it unattended.
On top of being illegal, you also are opening yourself up to the obvious threat of car theft. Thieves can steal your car in seconds, before you even realize it's pulling down your driveway, that car could be gone - never to be seen again.
North Carolina Code § 20‑163 lays the law down explicitly.
Unattended motor vehicles. No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended on a public highway or public vehicular area without first stopping the engine, effectively setting the brake thereon and, when standing upon any grade, turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway.
In most places around the state, your first fine will be just about $50. Enough fines, and you might as well have just sprung for the remote start.
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