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Leaving your car when you go on det... will it be OK?

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Do I need to do anything to the car while I'm gone?

Is it worth getting someone to go for a spin every few weeks? Or should I just keep it on a trickle charger?

Do I need to do any special preparation? I was thinking about over inflating the tyres, this might help avoid getting a flat spot where it sits on the same part...

I'll put her in gear and leave the handbrake off, learned that one on my metro and that was only 2 weeks!

Any advice?
 
Don't lend it to a mate who asks to borrow it just to run round the local area (Bruggen). Who then drives to Luton for a job interview in it. To top it all the exhaust fell off on the way back on the M25 and he still drove it back all the way before fixing it...::/:
 
Hand brake off and in gear is usually a good one, I do it if I'm away for a while. You might consider disconnecting the battery, but make sure you have the security codes for the radio etc.
 
jack brew said:
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If you speak to your insurance company, cancel for the time you are away and, although they will not financially reimburse you , they may offer to credit your next years insurance (in blocks of full months)

Every little helps in the credit crunch
 
rest have risen above me said:
Don't lend it to a mate who asks to borrow it just to run round the local area (Bruggen). Who then drives to Luton for a job interview in it. To top it all the exhaust fell off on the way back on the M25 and he still drove it back all the way before fixing it...::/:
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I agree, when I went out to gulf 1, I asked a plumber mate of mine, to give my car a run once a week around the camp. When I got back and went to pick up my car keys from him, he was full of apologies. About a week after I left he met a girl down town and had been using my car to take her out. Over Xmas on the way back to camp he drove my car into a wall! Moral of the story is do not give let a mate run your car for you, and never give your keys to a plumber.
 
Get a good cover for it as well if you don't have a garage. Bird sh1t will ruin the paint job on the car. You can buy covers that envelope the whole car.

Good for overwintering too.


TW
 
Fill it with petrol before you go. Always safer to have the liquid as opposed to vapour,and it`ll save you a fortune on your return when the price has gone up 50p a litre. But on no account tell anyone, or else "they`ll" be round with the tin snips and a bucket.
 
Rocket_Ronster said:
Fill it with petrol before you go. Always safer to have the liquid as opposed to vapour,and it`ll save you a fortune on your return when the price has gone up 50p a litre. But on no account tell anyone, or else "they`ll" be round with the tin snips and a bucket.
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The voice of experience?

Thanks for the comments!
 
If theft worries you, buy a wheel clamp to immobilise the vehicle. You could also inform the RAFP if your car is being left on station. They should check up on it for you once in a while.

Well, the local RAF plod at Lyneham used to (but that was ten years ago).

TW
 
if you have the cash there are companys out there that will pick up your car store it and return it when you get back all shiny and valleted i used them when i worked in sudi
 
I agree, if you value your car, put it in climate controlled storage, there are loads of companies across the uk, do a google search. Most will regularly run the car up for you if you ask them to. Last time I went away, think i paid about £65 a month if your in the south i can recommend

www.spacecontained.com
 
jack brew said:
Do I need to do anything to the car while I'm gone?

Is it worth getting someone to go for a spin every few weeks? Or should I just keep it on a trickle charger?

Do I need to do any special preparation? I was thinking about over inflating the tyres, this might help avoid getting a flat spot where it sits on the same part...

I'll put her in gear and leave the handbrake off, learned that one on my metro and that was only 2 weeks!

Any advice?
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Jack... how long u been in ???? A stacker and this only your first det !!! YA bloody skivver!! lol
 
Talk Wrench said:
You could also inform the RAFP if your car is being left on station. They should check up on it for you once in a while.

Well, the local RAF plod at Lyneham used to (but that was ten years ago).

TW
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If you do, don't cancel your road fund. Your car must be road legal to be allowed to stay on camp..
 
I Look Like Kevin Costner said:
If you do, don't cancel your road fund. Your car must be road legal to be allowed to stay on camp..
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Not always....As long as you filled a form in and let the coppers know at Lossie that it was SORN'd (but still insured) all was fine.

(Obviously may have changed but that was last year) - ask you local passes and permits or RAFP for details of what is allowed.

Crack on..................:PDT_Xtremez_09:
 
If its a Renault sell it before you go, cause they are bo$$ocks.

I left my 34 month old Megane at BZN last August, hoping to get back in 2 months to run it for a week while on R&R and get anything else that had gone wrong sorted while still under warranty. Oh how the best laid plans go, ended up with a civvy flight back to UK at the end of Nov for R&R, so never got back to BZN until December, and thats when the fun began. Flat battery, no probs, use key to open door pop bonnet and get MT to give me a jump start, wrong, said key did not fit lock. Called out breakdown service who said due to the side airbags they couldn't insert a cable to pop open the doors, tried various keys then gave up, so off I went on the back of a trailer up North. End result, Seeb to BZN was 4 hours quicker than my jouney from BZN to home.

Why leave the car for 4 months you say, well the Ford Orion managed during Gulf War 1, while parked in the NAAFI car park at Bruggen, and my Nissan Primera managed during Telic 1. So morale of the story is, if its french sell it.

ps I now have a Honda.
 
I wont take that as an insult! I don't buy French, I buy German, because no one who speaks German can do bad, right?

It's a VW Golf, best car I've ever had :)
 
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