Winter preparation...

[Kracka]

No residue will build up and no engine-flush is needed. Seriously people, this isn't dino-goo you're putting in your engines, its a wee bit more refined and formulated than that.

[A//// Guy]

Dont forget Stabil in your fuel tank.

[Kracka]

Dont forget Stabil in your fuel tank.

To be honest, with today's additive packages in quality (BP for example) premium fuels the need for Stabil is questionable. It won't hurt, but at the same time its not necessary.

[scheides]

I say leave oil in it. Change it, but leave oil in it.

I used to store my old gti at my parent's place while I was at school. I went home at christmas to discover mice running around in it. Take some dryer sheets (downy or whatever is smelliest) and stick them in various openings around the engine compartment (i.e. around the strut towers, in the area where the battery was, etc) and then lay a single sheet on the base of each seat, and maybe a few on the floor (especially up near the floor vents) for good measure. They never came back, and my interior and engine bay were fully in tact when I checked it after that.

Note: if you over do this, you car will smell a little funny when you pull it out of storage. Detail w/ armoral or some such product & cruise w/ the windows down & this will go away promptly.

[rk4g63]

Wouldn't it be simpler to just start the car every day and drive the car once a week around the block or something? :confused:
I know I'm from Indianapolis and have never spent a winter here in the Cities, but it doesnt get THAT much colder, does it?

[Kracka]

Wouldn't it be simpler to just start the car every day and drive the car once a week around the block or something? :confused:
I know I'm from Indianapolis and have never spent a winter here in the Cities, but it doesnt get THAT much colder, does it?

If you're putting the car down for storage, just leave it. Most of the wear takes place at initial start-up, its better to just let the car sit for the winter and start it come spring. When putting a car away, we're doing so to avoid taking the car out in the snow/salt which would be negated if he was to drive around the block every week.

[rk4g63]

OK Got it. I actually am used to driving my dsm all the time and doing an underbody wash once a week, so this is a bit different for me.
Thanks!

[Enes]

we are talking pound and pound of salt per square foot, we are talking just as much sand, and then on top of that twenty below weather with windchill will get it down to fourty below.

and thats on a normal good day!

[rk4g63]

Looks like I'd better put away my dsm for the winter.

[Outlaw1]

we are talking pound and pound of salt per square foot, we are talking just as much sand, and then on top of that twenty below weather with windchill will get it down to fourty below.

and thats on a normal good day!

I can't wait! :eek: