Car parked for a year needs to get back on the road
If they move freely in and out then it could just be you over tightened something somewhere and need to loosen/ lube.
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Ok so the shifter is better the lube is finally soaking in. Next question is what can I spray on parts that are starting to show a bit of rust like some bolts a few places of the underbody of the car. Nothing major just a bit. Someone said wd40 would that work?
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Originally Posted by ProPilot04
Don't even bother with any of those additives. The proof that they actually work is suspect at best, and if their claims were substantiated in any real way, automakers would be using them in a more logical and profitable way. That includes seafoam.
If you've been running the car the way you say, and nothings been going awry, then I think you'd be fine.
It will never hurt to change the fluids, and I will never ever ever suggest "flushing" because I think it generally does more harm than good (there are good articles that argue both ways though if I'm honest). But change your fluids, check your hoses, do a boost leak test, and go for a ride.
I probably wouldn't jump on it right away... give it a couple hundred miles to get anything critical that might break from sitting an opportunity to break.
If it were me (I garage my car every winter btw, but not a year at a time) I'd have a basic tool kit with me, and some basic supplies. Things I could expect to break would be, radiator hoses, belts, and possibly gasket leaks.
That's what the easy driving for 200 miles or so will help. It will get those seals back up to operating temp, and lubed up with whatever fluid. It will get the belts to reshape themselves and not have a bent shape to them.
i dissagree they do work, there are many a trials of teh seafoam into the engien and oil on youtube into sti's etc adn you can see a difference.
The problem that i was told wether its true or not is that if its never been done to an eninge before (from new) then you can actually clean out the engien to much and unless everything in the engine is brand new you run the a possibility of removing some junk that may be helping you out. Ive heard of people running the deep creep in an oil doing a change seeing lots of stuff come out and then having new noises ticks, squeaks from the eninge. But the stuff does work
Originally Posted by ProPilot04
Don't even bother with any of those additives. The proof that they actually work is suspect at best, and if their claims were substantiated in any real way, automakers would be using them in a more logical and profitable way. That includes seafoam.
If you've been running the car the way you say, and nothings been going awry, then I think you'd be fine.
It will never hurt to change the fluids, and I will never ever ever suggest "flushing" because I think it generally does more harm than good (there are good articles that argue both ways though if I'm honest). But change your fluids, check your hoses, do a boost leak test, and go for a ride.
I probably wouldn't jump on it right away... give it a couple hundred miles to get anything critical that might break from sitting an opportunity to break.
If it were me (I garage my car every winter btw, but not a year at a time) I'd have a basic tool kit with me, and some basic supplies. Things I could expect to break would be, radiator hoses, belts, and possibly gasket leaks.
That's what the easy driving for 200 miles or so will help. It will get those seals back up to operating temp, and lubed up with whatever fluid. It will get the belts to reshape themselves and not have a bent shape to them.
i dissagree they do work, there are many a trials of teh seafoam into the engien and oil on youtube into sti's etc adn you can see a difference.
The problem that i was told wether its true or not is that if its never been done to an eninge before (from new) then you can actually clean out the engien to much and unless everything in the engine is brand new you run the a possibility of removing some junk that may be helping you out. Ive heard of people running the deep creep in an oil doing a change seeing lots of stuff come out and then having new noises ticks, squeaks from the eninge. But the stuff does work
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