whats your mileage??

[dem maser]

do you all disconnect the battery from the switch when leaving the car parked up for longer than 3 weeks?? im going away soon so just seeing what you all do

 

[Parisien]

Better putting it on a trickle charger D.......never away more than 2!

P

 

[dem maser]

i have not used it in 2 weeks and now going away fri to corfu for a week so just thinking i should disconnect it so the alarm wont be going off when i maway or wont start when im back

 

[Pibbow]

3200 AC 22155 & Ghibli GT 34577

The AC had 19900 miles on it when I picked it up in April so it's done a few this summer .

 

[davy83]

I have a 2001 3200 GTA with 25642 on the clock bought it 2 years ago with 18000 on the clock

One owner most its life, had a bump, spent a long time getting fixed and was troublesome spending further time broken down. Quite unreliable when i got it.

Running well now!!!

 

[boomerang]

at least fire her up every week, and leave her to warm up thoroughly (10-15 mins at idle at least)

I have heard from different sources, this is exactly what you should NOT do!
Every cold start is causing wear because of enriched fuel mixtures, the forming of condensed water in the engine oil and engine parts/cats/exhaustparts that will not warm through thouroughly being ran at idle revs.
Poluting the sparkplugs, combustionchambers, cats and the engine oil, is the sad result of multiple cold starts.
These engines should be ran at firm speeds and for a longer period of time, not just running at idle for ten minutes.
In that way the oil will reach at least its 90 degrees minimal temperature, nescecairy for evapourating waterdamp and petrol residues in the oil.
After the winterstop it is best to let the engine run for a minute or so and then drive it relaxed to a normal engine and oil temperature.
In my opinion every unnescecairy cold start should be avoided.

 

[reservoirfrog]

I have heard from different sources, this is exactly what you should NOT do!
Every cold start is causing wear because of enriched fuel mixtures, the forming of condensed water in the engine oil and engine parts/cats/exhaustparts that will not warm through thouroughly being ran at idle revs.
Poluting the sparkplugs, combustionchambers, cats and the engine oil, is the sad result of multiple cold starts.
These engines should be ran at firm speeds and for a longer period of time, not just running at idle for ten minutes.
In that way the oil will reach at least its 90 degrees minimal temperature, nescecairy for evapourating waterdamp and petrol residues in the oil.
After the winterstop it is best to let the engine run for a minute or so and then drive it relaxed to a normal engine and oil temperature.
In my opinion every unnescecairy cold start should be avoided.

I'm puzzled here. If the oil temp has to reach 90 degrees to evaporate any condensed water, where does the water come from ( air I presume) and where does it go to when evaporated.
any water in air will only fall out of suspension whe the temperature of the air falls to below dew point temperature, and the dew point temp. depends on the amount of moisture in the air.
so any water that is floating on the oil is then turned into low pressure steam when the engine is running only to condense into water again in the winter.
I dont see how the water is transfered to other parts of the lubfication system?????

 

[boomerang]

If the engine is realy warm (or better hot), the waterdamp will be combusted in the end as the oilsump breathingpipes lead the oil and waterdamp into the intakemanifold.
And indeed, moist air will condense on every relative cold spot in the engine, thus finding the oil sump as a favourite spot being one of the last spots to really heat up.
To heat the oilsump really, you have to do something more then run the engine at idle....

 

[reservoirfrog]

If the engine is realy warm (or better hot), the waterdamp will be combusted in the end as the oilsump breathingpipes lead the oil and waterdamp into the intakemanifold.
And indeed, moist air will condense on every relative cold spot in the engine, thus finding the oil sump as a favourite spot being one of the last spots to really heat up.
To heat the oilsump really, you have to do something more then run the engine at idle....

you only need a temperature of about 4 to 6 degrees to be above dew point temp. above that you are not condensing water out of air.
when did water become combustable???
If you have found a way of combusting water....my friend you a genius, and about to become very rich & famous.

 

[boomerang]

Combustion is the wrong word of course, but as you know you can add quite an amount of waterdamp to the mixture without any problems. (Some even inject a waterdamp/methanol mixture for higher efficiency)
And my respons was not about condensing water at a certain temperature or whatever, but about getting rid of water particals and petrol from your oil .(The bad concequence of several cold starts.)

Its very simple: To get rid of that, you have to drive your car firmly, NOT let the engine idle for only 10 minutes several times.

 

[dem maser]

when im going away for a week is it worth turning it on or off or just leaving it alone

 

[bigbob]

Went through 39k today. Also replaced my straight through pipes (Loz thought RPI) for a pair of OEM backboxes/pipes (thanks Safrane/David Askew). Now much happier as I can finally hear the engine again rather than just the bloody exhaust!

 

[Froddy]

Just about to clock 47k, having covered 13k since I acquired her in June last year ...