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| VMS - 11/1/2019 7:16 AM
Yes...
I store my car from November - April every year. I unhook the battery, and charge it a couple times over the winter. Most years I'll run it for a few minutes every so often, but the last few winters that's been maybe once or twice. All I do as far as prep is a full tank of premium and a bottle of Stabil. It's been 15 years, and it starts right up every spring, and runs like it did 6 months ago.
My father stores his car from Sept - May, and does nothing except unhooking the battery. No stabilizer, whatever gas was left in the tank...
Neither of us have had a problem.
As far as the boat? Marine Sea Foam and fresh gas in the fall. I leave the "ears" on connected to a hose that's coiled up under the boat. All I have to do is hook up the hose, turn on the water, start her up and let her run for a bit. I keep a 5 gallon bucket aligned with the stream from the pee hole, and my garage is sloped to a floor drain, so running the motor for 10 min is literally a 12 min project with no water to clean up. So far so good...
IMO, the best thing you can do is get a heater for your garage, with a thermostat you can set. I keep mine at 38 degrees. Nothing freezes, nothing breaks, leather seats don't split, there's no issue with wild swings in temperature, condensation, etc. Easy Peasy... |
