Car parked at home while gone
Has anyone found a need to add fuel stabilizer (ie. Sta-bil) to the fuel system of any vehicles left parked at home while gone three months over the winter? I know fuels are better these days and w...
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I am still wayne_tw wrote:
Think about this: Many of the automobiles everyone has gone to great processes to park for about 3 months have, when they were new, sat on a dealers lot for that same period of time without any preparation whatsoever. Those same vehicles seem to have survived quite well.
FWIW:
"The longer a new car sits on a lot, the more motivated the dealer will be to sell it quickly. Most dealers take out loans in order to buy their inventory and they pay off a portion of the loans each time they sell a vehicle.
For each day that vehicle doesn't sell, the dealer keeps paying interest on that loan. The longer a car sits, the larger the interest cost grows.
Dealers typically don't mind paying interest for 30 or even 60 days, but when the car has been sitting on the lot for 3 months, that's when they really start getting nervous. They start worrying about losing money on the car if they don't sell it soon"
In addition a new car never "just sits" and it's a "new" car it better start. Again a can of SeaFoam is $6.50 and takes 10 seconds of your time. Disconnecting the battery 1-2 minutes.
YMMV
