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These are sobering times and there's a lot more important stuff going on than this. Lockdown 1 though highlighted something to me.
We have 2 cars, one is a'main car', which my wife uses for her commute or to get the her Mum's, 60 odd miles away, during normal times. It's over 4 years old now but used daily as my wife is a keyworker.
Our 'second' car is (was) used mainly by me, for the school run and photography outings.
I filled our second car with fuel in February 2020 just prior to lockdown one. It was June before I had to put fuel in again. Our other car was getting filled every 10 days or so, so it was being used a lot more.
When I started using our second car again, it was obvious that it needed a few bits, new brakes, some springs etc, mainly consumable stuff, which it didn't prior to lockdown. Car 1 didn't, it sailed it's MOT too. Car 2 was a little older than car one, granted but I really think it suffered just sitting there for months.
I've since replaced our second car for a newer one, it's had a few teething problems but nothing major. It's just sat there again though at the moment and I'm fearing a repeat of it needing work. I went to start it just last week and the battery was flat and the rear brakes stuck on, there was a bulb out at the rear too.
I'm not sure that a car just sitting there does it any good, the car that is used daily seems to fair much better. I'm tempted to take car 2 for a run every week but it doesn't sit right just now doing that. Being a 1.6 TDI, letting it sit on the drive for a while ticking over isn't an option as that will clog the DPF. It's also had a new throttle body recently (more correctly, throttle valve I believe) and that needs calibrating as it's brought on the engine management light since I replaced it.
So, I can't help but think, that cars don't fair well just parked up for longish periods.
Anybody else see this?
We have 2 cars, one is a'main car', which my wife uses for her commute or to get the her Mum's, 60 odd miles away, during normal times. It's over 4 years old now but used daily as my wife is a keyworker.
Our 'second' car is (was) used mainly by me, for the school run and photography outings.
I filled our second car with fuel in February 2020 just prior to lockdown one. It was June before I had to put fuel in again. Our other car was getting filled every 10 days or so, so it was being used a lot more.
When I started using our second car again, it was obvious that it needed a few bits, new brakes, some springs etc, mainly consumable stuff, which it didn't prior to lockdown. Car 1 didn't, it sailed it's MOT too. Car 2 was a little older than car one, granted but I really think it suffered just sitting there for months.
I've since replaced our second car for a newer one, it's had a few teething problems but nothing major. It's just sat there again though at the moment and I'm fearing a repeat of it needing work. I went to start it just last week and the battery was flat and the rear brakes stuck on, there was a bulb out at the rear too.
I'm not sure that a car just sitting there does it any good, the car that is used daily seems to fair much better. I'm tempted to take car 2 for a run every week but it doesn't sit right just now doing that. Being a 1.6 TDI, letting it sit on the drive for a while ticking over isn't an option as that will clog the DPF. It's also had a new throttle body recently (more correctly, throttle valve I believe) and that needs calibrating as it's brought on the engine management light since I replaced it.
So, I can't help but think, that cars don't fair well just parked up for longish periods.
Anybody else see this?