Cars going to be standing...

[Scott™]

Had a leg injury on Monday and im not going to be able to drive for a month. Is there anything i need to do to keep the car ticking over ok. Just start it up for a couple of minutes every other day? Its not even at my house, its at the g/fs and ive not seen her (the car) since Monday Sad times.

 

[Sean6545]

Leave the handbrake off. Start it up for 10 minuits every week and she will be fine!

 

[Harpham]

Leave the handbrake off. Start it up for 10 minuits every week and she will be fine!

Why do you leave the handbrake off, out of interest? To stop it from snapping etc?

 

[Anim@l]

Stop the brakes from siezing up.

 

[Munson]

For one month - nothing. Maybe disconnect the battery.

 

[SteveS Cup]

Not a thing... It'll be fine! The brakes will never sieze in a month.

However, I would never reccomend starting a car up and then switching it off after 2 minutes. let it warm right up, clear the condensation out the exhaust and then switch it off... but if it's only for a month you won't have to do this.

My brothers old scooter had been sat in my garage for 6 years... it started 2nd time last week! And that hasn't moved / been started in 6 years!

 

[Anim@l]

My brakes didn't sieze in 6 months, so yeah, I agree with the above.

 

[Scott™]

Okay cheers lads. Well I've been starting her up and letting her run up to temp say 10 minutes. Thanks for the advice ladies.

 

[DrR]

My mums car gets left that long quite regularly, never think anything of it.

 

[Scott™]

My mums car gets left that long quite regularly, never think anything of it.

But my car is like my baby

 

[mikekean]

Just leave it. Doing anything other than taking it for proper drive will do it more harm than good.

 

[jenic]

I thought this was going to be like 1 year+.

Loads of people leave cars for a month, only thing with the clio is the alarm may drain the battery so do the lock from inside through the passenger door and then look the passenger door thingy.