"exercising" an Explorer

My kid is heading overseas for a year and is leaving her '98 Explorer in our
garage. How often should be take out and run it around and how long? Any other
tips for down time?

--
"All of us learn to write in the second grade.
Most of us go on to greater things."
Bobby Knight.

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 1309 GMT, kurtullman@yahoo.com (Kurt Ullman)
wrote:

> My kid is heading overseas for a year and is leaving her '98 Explorer in our
>garage. How often should be take out and run it around and how long? Any other
>tips for down time?

Car benifit most from two conditions, driving for long perods of time,
ie highway miles, or sitting quietly covered.

Get a cover for it(just incase you want your garage space back),
change the oil, pu tin some stabile-fuel, and disconnect the battery.
The car will be very happy to left alone till she she is needed again.

Starting and stoping it only causes wear, and if it's not good
driving, you will cause impurities to build in the oil eating away the
engine. The battery disconnnected should reduce speed of corrosion.

Another tip, if the car is under loan in no way stop coverage. Your
loan company might see that as fault, repo the car, or 'buy' coverage
for you and charge you a higher price. Talk with your insurance
company, explain what you are doing, and they should have a special
coverage that keeps the bank happy and your wallet happy.

Ok, now what I would do...... sell the truck. Bank the money.

hth,

tom




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In article <mllrb05c3enihfjltl03rr41qknn5tvlno@4ax.com>,
junkmail01@intertainiaREMOVE.com wrote:

>Ok, now what I would do...... sell the truck. Bank the money.
>
We suggested that, but she is in her 20s, this is her first car, she
likes it, it is old enough she doesn't think she can get enough money for it
to buy something as good or better in a year, etc. etc.
Thanks for the reply.

--
"All of us learn to write in the second grade.
Most of us go on to greater things."
Bobby Knight.

I drive my old cars once a month for about 1/2 hour. That advice
was given to my be an old car collector, almost fifty years ago.
I own a '41, 64, 71, 72, 83 and they all start
and continue to run fine following his advice.


mike hunt



Kurt Pullman wrote:
>
> My kid is heading overseas for a year and is leaving her '98 Explorer in our
> garage. How often should be take out and run it around and how long? Any other
> tips for down time?
>
> --
> "All of us learn to write in the second grade.
> Most of us go on to greater things."
> Bobby Knight.