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<P>Thank you for the validation I so crave. (can you tell I'm feeling irreverent, yet honest, today?) My general policy is changing the oild once a year, but execution has not lived up to planning so far. </P>
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<P>I find it mildly amusing that, until I put a new battery in the G20 after definitively killing the old one, my modern Japanese sedan (the G20) would require a jump start if it sat for more than about 3-4 weeks (which it regularly does), whereas my 30-year-old Italian sports car fires up instantly after hibernating for 7 months. </P>
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<P>If nothing else, the Fiat does get driven for a nice length of time when I do drive it, and it lives nice and cozy in its own garage, with the SE-R to keep it company. </P>
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<P>David<BR><BR><BR><BR></P>
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<DIV>You probably wont hurt it. Most of the collector car magazines and things i read recommend changing oil in cars at least once a year, regardless of mileage. And when you do drive it, to run it at least 30 minutes to make sure any water is burnt out of the oil. My last oil change on my SE-R might have been about 1k miles, but was over a year. </DIV>
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<DIV>Having said that, the biggest killer of a car from sitting is not dirty or old oil, its the sun wearing on anything and everything. So if the car is protected from the sun, having old oil probably is not going to hurt it.</DIV>
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<DIV>My 91 SE-R sat for 2 months since I had driven it last and it cranked right up as it always does.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jaret<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica">-----Original Message-----<BR>From: David Pertuz <davidpertuz@mindspring.com><BR>To: se-r@se-r-list.org<BR>Sent: Tue, Jul 13, 2010 5:49 pm<BR>Subject: low-use oil change intervals<BR><BR>
<DIV id=AOLMsgPart_0_9f8da338-2a0b-4913-8414-f047c7b5f85f style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>My Fiat (yeah, I know, it's not an SE-R, but we like the list traffic, don't we)
doesn't get driven more than about 1000 miles a year, so oil changes are based
on time intervals rather than mileage. Or they would be if I didn't suck at
getting stuff done when I should get it done. Right now it's got oil that
doesn't have mroe than about 2k on it but it might be two years old now. I do,
at least, practice proper warm-up and cool-down (it's a turbo) and make sure it
has enough (it wouldn't be a Fiat if it didn't leak, after all). I've only
driven it a few times so far this year - a couple of short drives in the city,
and a trip out to the western burbs a couple of weeks ago to meet a friend. I
want to drive it up a North Shore burb tomorrow night for a concert, but am
angst-ridden about my non-oil-changing. I've got new oil (Shell Rotex or
whatever that's called) and filter, but I have to track down a 12mm allen-head
socket before I can do the job.
Question: just how bad of an old-Italian-car owner am I being? Do I suck
completely, or only partly?
I'm probably really just looking for validation of what I want to do anyway,
which is drive the car tomorrow.
David
Chicago
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