Re: Long term storage-Myths??

Posted by Cli55er On 2016/12/9 17:26:31

sometimes things like this worry me about my daily drivers. i drive 1.5 miles to work and 1.5 home. my truck is 1 year and 3 months old and has 6k miles on it.

during the winter months....i get to work before the heat starts to work, so i sit in the parking lot and rev the motor to get it good and warm. total trip time, with doing that comes to 15 min in the winter. summer i dont do that and its about 6 min on the trip computer timer.


my wife's car is 2 years and 3 months and has 10k miles.


we try to alternate them when we have to drive longer on the weekends so they get some highway time and we change the oil more frequently then the factory says to.

i had a used 2001 f150 before this truck and drove it for 8 years. had 99k on it when i bought it and 122 when i got rid of it. in those 23k miles i developed a lifter tick which i believe is from the short distance driving i did. i was regular with the oil changes on it as well. could have been age...but i think it was the short trips.