"ChrisB" <ChrisB@somewhere.someplace.com> wrote in message
news:q7idnXKJ17itRnHVnZ2dnUVZ_tHinZ2d@giganews.com ...
> Greetings all,
>
> I was just wondering what additional maintenance needs to be done on
> vehicles that are hardly driven? I was just sitting here and thinking
> about it and I believe I put 4,000 miles on one car and 3,000 miles on the
> other car in one year's time.
>
> On one vehicle, my Mustang, the miles were mostly long trips in excess of
> 100 miles. On the other vehicle, my Civic, the miles were mostly from
> short trips with an occasional 100+ mile trip. As the price of gas went
> up, I left the Mustang at parked and started driving the 1997 Civic more.
>
> Regardless, I keep hearing that it is just as bad to not drive a car as it
> is to drive a car and was wondering if I needed to do anything above and
> beyond the regular maintenance that I perform on my cars now?
>
> -Chris

Aside from the, "use it or lose it" aspect of things needing to be
lubricated now and then, you will need to keep the battery charged or it
will go south on you. I have a motorcycle that I rarely use. The battery
goes dead. I tried a trickle charger but it does more than trickle and ends
up cooking the fluid out of it. I bought a "battery maintainer" and have had
good luck with that.