How can they deny warranty when they don't specify this in the owner's manual?
In the manual under "starting and operating" they imply that one should wait for the vehicle to warm up under number 6 by writing,
"Confirm that all warning and indicator lights have gone out after the engine has started, The fuel injection system automatically lowers the idle speed as the engine warms up. While the engine is warming up, make sure the selector lever is at the "P" or "N" position and that the parking brake is engaged"
To me, the little blue water temp light is one of the "indicator lights" that they are referring to, especially when they go on to say, "while the engine is warming up" and I wonder what SOA has to say on the matter.
I don't have to worry about it much, my wife will refuse to drive a car that's cold inside anyway and she has the autostart. Right now we are in Florida but are going to move to central Illinois where it has gotten down to -40F (-80F windchill) when I was growing up there.
I still remember what my 1979 302 V8 sounded like when I started it that morning, WHHHHHAAAAAAAAA, WHHHAAAAAA, WHHAAAA, WHAAA, BUUUUUBBUUUUUUUBUUUUBUUUUBUUU, with me feathering the gas the whole time and praying she didn't die because once you squirt tar into the cylinders, you better keep her going till she warms up or it's all over but the freezing, lol. I sat in the car and expelled my breath into my coat to try and keep warm while the engine was warming up enough to drive it and I was literally convulsing from the cold the whole time, lol.