I'm a soldier getting ready for an overseas deployment. I just put my car away for winter, but it doesn't look like it'll get any action before I deploy. What does everyone else do when storing their vehicle to ensure its ready to ride when they bring it back out? It'll be stored for about 12 months...

 

battery tender to keep the charge nice and full, if its not jacked up, overinflate the tires to help prevent flat spots, get a car cover to keep dust off to help prevent scratches once you clean it next, and put a scrap piece of carpet, plywood, or plactic under the car to help prevent condensation from coming out of the ground and corroding the underside of your vehicle.

 

oh, and fuel stabilizer, add it then run the car for about five minutes to get it throughout the system. MAke sure the fuel tank is full to also help prevent as much condensation in the tank as possible. Even if the tank is plastic, the water can still get in the fuel lines and system.

 

Make sure you fill up the tank with fuel & add fuel stabilzer as well...I like to also change my oil & filter...

 

1. Add Fuel Stabilizer, top-off the tank and run her for about 10 miles or more
2. Fresh oil/filter change
3. If you can, get her up on jacks to get the wheels off the ground
4. If you can't do #3, put cardboard or carpet or some type of moisture barrier under the tires
5. Disconnect the battery and/or put a battery tender on it
6. A car cover will keep dust and "stuff" off the paint but isn't necessary
7. Have a box of Kleenex handy for when you cry in despair for not being behind the wheel

Tires WILL flatspot not matter what the pressure but will round-out with use after a bit. I've actually heard that mounted tires should be stored at LOWER pressure but I haven't researched it.

 

distant.solder, thank you for your service to our country.

The rest, I have a question about adding fuel stabilizer to our cars. I store mine over the winter months and I also watched a video about our gas tanks and how they fill up. If I remember correctly when the tank is near empty one side of the saddle tank will fill up first and then the other side will fill up. So, if you add fuel stabilizer when the tank is full, won't only one side of the gas tank get the stabilizer? Wouldn't it be true for the saddle tanks that half of the stabilizer should be added when the car is below half of a tank and then the rest be added when the tank is full? Thoughts?

 

Stabilizer (or ANY fuel additive) should be put in the tank prior to filling and preferably with the tank low. This would allow the additive to properly mix and get distributed properly, especially in the case of saddle type tanks.

 

I've always used Sta-bil

 

https://mustangforums.com/forum/6-cy...r-storage.html

 

Good luck with the deployment... been on 2, and might be going back next year for a
3rd so be safe and come back home...