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Advice please - laying car up for a few months

Gooey36

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Yesterday, I was unfortunate enough to rupture my Achilles in a work charity football match :

As such, I can't drive now for around 3 months. Which is rubbish. I was planning on driving the car to Le man in July so that's touch and go now. Gutted.

Anyway, a friend drove it home and popped it in the garage for me. Other than attaching the battery optimiser, is there anything else I should be doing? Start and run (not drive!) or just leave it well alone?

Any advice and sympathy welcome!
 
Whatever you do don't start it unless its going to be drive, it just creates moisture and not enough heat to burn off so does more harm than good. It will be fine just on a battery conditioner. You could put a few extra PSI in each tyre but for 3 months I would just check them before you drive.

Good luck with the recovery, 3 months will soon go and you will appreciate the car even more :thumb:
 
You have my sympathy mate. I ruptured mine twice within the space of four months a few years ago. I had a tendon graft for the second surgery which seemed to do the trick but the recovery was hard work. Hopefully yours will be better having ruptured just once!

I couldn't wait to get driving again, so you have my sympathies there too.

I don't use my 911 during the winter and mine has been parked up since the end of October. I just connect the ctek and over-inflate the tyres and leave it. Yours should be okay for three months as long as the battery is on charge I would have thought.

Good luck with the recovery. :thumb:
 
Doh! Hope it heals quickly mate.

Gooey36 said:
I was planning on driving the car to Le man in July so that's touch and go now. Gutted.!

The race is June, so even less time to recover if that's what you're going for.


With regards the car, I wouldn't worry too much. Battery charger and a start up every now and then, it'll be fine. Leave handbrake off so it doesn't get stuck on.
 
Don't 'start it up every now and again" :eek: , Its one of the worst things you can do unless its going to be driven. Moisture will form and just sit as the car will heat up but not enough to burn off the moisture :wink:

If you feel the need to do this then let it idle to full temp at least but its totally pointless for a 3 month layup. I've just got my 993 out of 18 month storage, battery disconnected, tyres over inflated, started first time and is like its been driven every day :thumb:
 
Thanks guys.

Pump tyres up, trickle charger, handbrake off, leave alone for a while :nooo:
 
Sympathy - did the same thing - left leg - went undiagnosed for 3 weeks... Long, long recovery period - even now (almost 18 months later) it is painful to use the clutch.

Hope the rehab goes well!
 
mikeluke said:
Sympathy - did the same thing - left leg - went undiagnosed for 3 weeks... Long, long recovery period - even now (almost 18 months later) it is painful to use the clutch.

Hope the rehab goes well!

Jesus! How did you walk?! Sorry to hear that. Mine is a complete rip/tear so my ankle isnt attached to my calf now, was pretty instant. No way I can walk on it!

Seeing the specialist on Monday so hopefully be going down the surgery route to get it all stitched up and fixed.

:thumbs:
 
deMort said:
Every 3 monthes do as below and a speedy recovery ..

Thanks demort. Already sick of this bloody space boot thing I'm wearing. Going to be a long 3 months!
 
Gooey36 said:
Thanks guys.

Pump tyres up, trickle charger, handbrake off, leave alone for a while :nooo:

Sounds right to me.

Good luck with the recovery. I had 3 months on my arse last winter with a snapped Achilles. Not fun. Luckily no surgery - they found with my foot pointed right down the two ends came back together enough to reattach so was in a cast with my toes pointed right down. The first time they move your ankle, after a few months, is absolute agony.
Also my calf muscles just withered away to nothing - even now, over 12 months later, with physio and gym, its still half the size of the other side.
 
Some people say to top off the tank to stop any condensation forming on the inside, I did this but it left me with a full tank of rubbish fuel, so now I leave hardly anything in it.

Put the window down a touch at the top, stops any mould growing inside and circulates air.

Don't put an outside cover over it if storing inside.

Put something over the exhaust to stop any furry animals getting up.

Make sure battery conditioner is connected to chassis earth on newer cars, not direct to battery earth.

I've never rotated tyres and one car has been on them for over 3 years.
 
Connect a battery charger, leave it in gear with the handbrake off and make sure the tyres are correctly inflated.

Just be thankful you've got a garage... when I broke my ankle my S2000 went mouldy on the inside as I didn't have a garage to store t in while I recovered. Horrid winter weather didn't really help.

Hope you have a speedy recovery!
 

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