Change oil before or after storage?
11-13-2015, 04:56 PM
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Change oil before or after storage?
I'm at 50% on the oil useage indicator ... I store the car for the winter months ... is it best to change the oil before or after storage? I have two free oil changes left.
11-13-2015, 06:22 PM
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Done it both before and after. Last few years I have stored the car with fresh oil and filter and will continue to do that.
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11-13-2015, 06:23 PM
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If your garage is heated doesn't matter.If unheated you will get CONDENSATION in your nice clean oil.Not good.Unheated i would wait.Common Sense.
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11-13-2015, 06:37 PM
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11-13-2015, 06:48 PM
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I always do it before not sure if there is a big difference but better safe than sorry.
11-13-2015, 07:39 PM
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11-13-2015, 07:44 PM
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I too am ambivelent, if it was easy at the end of the season I would do it , however if I didn't have the time, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Forums have a way of making you think it will turn into sulfuric acid over the winter or something… Far from it….
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11-13-2015, 08:12 PM
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Either way, condensation burns off the first time you drive the car and get the oil hot anyhow.
IMO, it's always better to store a car with fresh oil, but if your oil has only a couple of thousand miles on it, you can leave it in there longer. When it came time to put my C6 away for winter at the end of last year, I only had about 3000 miles on my oil (and I can't bring myself to waste perfectly good Mobil 1 at such low mileage) so I decided to let it go another season and when I changed the oil this summer I had it analyzed and it was still in good shape. So to be perfectly honest, you could do it before or after and you probably won't hurt anything.
11-13-2015, 08:36 PM
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Drive it!
Corvettes are born to be driven...not stored, stared at, washed obsessively, or watched through a window.
That said, it is utterly stupid to put fresh oil in a vehicle...any vehicle...that will sit for months. Think, folks!
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That said, it is utterly stupid to put fresh oil in a vehicle...any vehicle...that will sit for months. Think, folks!
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I always change mine just as I put the car in storage. Get the old out and have fresh oil for the storage period.
