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Originally Posted by stugray
WOW!
Just ....WOW!
A bit of overkill. Now you make me feel guilty for leaving my lawnmower out in the snow....
And as for changing the oil but NOT the filter.... WOW again.
$50 worth of oil, runined/degraded by not changing a $5 filter?
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To each their own. I plan to protect my car from the harshness of changing temps and winter storage. If this is overkill, I'd be scared what others do.
And who said anything about $50 in oil? It's not running, so who cares what the oil brand or cost is. Point is, you just want to drain the contaminants out of the car and put fresh stuff in. In the spring you put in new, better oil for your planned usage. My last car would get Castrol Syntec in spring and GTX in winter. The FRS, well, it doesn't get used much so I just left the Amsoil in it that was fairly fresh before I put it away. I'll change it out in the spring before I get it out.
Now I've done the above for many years and never had an issue with any of the cars I've stored. They always fire right up and never gave me issues throughout the season.
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Originally Posted by Thorpedo
I would disagree with this point. Cylinders don't typically rust over the period of a winter when an engine isn't open to the elements (removed intake for example). Also the fogging oil does nothing to prevent engine components that aren't exposed to to the intake tract from rusting, although these don't typically rust either. If the engine is going to be stored for a very extended period there are measures I would take, but having been an engine builder for years I can tell you that no form of fogging oil that I have seen will get near an engine that I own.
Shut the engine down with the proper amount of relative fresh oil, keep air in the tires (or store them if they are a soft compound), full the fuel tank and add the proper amount of stabilizer. Keep your local pests out with common sense measures. I also run a small wattage solar battery tender to keep it topped off. I don't even unhook the terminals and mine starts fine in the spring. I normally change the oil in the spring but given the high oil temps our engines see I cannot imagine any small amount of condensation build up in the oil would last long.
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Your right, the short winter wont have any detrimental impact on cylinder rust due to the various metal compositions. It would be for extended storage purposes.
To the OP, the thing to remember is everyone is going to have a different method of storing a car. Some will think one method is extreme while others will simply throw a tarp over it and call it done. It's your car, so do with it as you wish. My perspective is that spending the time to do it right (or overkill as some say) will pay off in the end. And if it doesn't change anything, well, it was worth not taking the risk anyways.