Storing My Diesel Truck Over Winter Advice
I have a 2013 Ram 3500 Diesel. I want to store it in my shop this year in WA where it can get as low as -5 degrees. Mind you, it's not that cold all winter but it can get that low inside the shop. I h...
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ppine wrote:
Use Stabil in the fuel. DEF has a service life of about 6 months.
Letting vehicles sit for 6 months is hard on them. Pull the batteries and put a low voltage maintainer on them.
Aside from the last part about a maintainer, which would also not be necessary if they were disconnected fully charged (but not a bad idea), whether you "pull" them or not, the rest of this couldn't be more false or comical.
It's silly stuff like this that get people like the OP thinking they need to do a whole bunch of stuff to let their truck sit for the winter.
ZERO need for Stabil in diesel that is sitting for 6 months, it isn't even an algicide if that is a concern.
DEF has a much longer than 6mo shelf life unless you let it sit out in the sun with the lid off in Nevada in the summer...
And I can't think of a single other thing that would be "hard" on it, unless sitting for 6 months out in the sun in Nevada, or under a Walnut tree all summer or in a swamp.
