Diesel parked up half of each week

tommyspiggy · 26-01-2016 7:18pm #1

I currently have two cars. A toyota auris diesel and a lexus is200 petrol. My plan is to drive both cars for the moment thus the auris would be parked up half the week. I will be selling the lexus amd keeping the auris next year. Is having the auris (diesel) parked up half of each week bad for it. Currently not doing high mileage only about 15 miles a day) Thanks in advance and apologies if there is a duplicate thread.

Atlantic Dawn · 26-01-2016 7:21pm

No won't be a problem.

CIP4 · 26-01-2016 7:42pm

As said there would be no issue at all with this. When I'm in college my car would often spend 4 days parked up and I've never had any issue at all in 4 years.

tommyspiggy · 26-01-2016 7:50pm

Wonderful thanks but im guessing your car is taken on long trips whereas my auris will be doin max 60 miles each week.ðŸ˜

CIP4 · 26-01-2016 8:30pm

tommyspiggy wrote: »

Wonderful thanks but im guessing your car is taken on long trips whereas my auris will be doin max 80 miles each week.ðŸ˜

Ye it would get 400-600 km driving at the weekends alright. 80 miles should be fine would be no harm to bring it on the odd long drive every so often. But it's nothing to worry about especially when your only doing it for a year.

crosstownk · 26-01-2016 9:45pm

Not a problem. My oil burner sits on the driveway for days at a time as I cycle to work rather than deal with the M50.

It's often sat for over a week without being started. It's does get a good day or two of 500km driving a few times each month.

crosstownk · 26-01-2016 9:45pm

Not a problem. My oil burner sits on the driveway for days at a time as I cycle to work rather than deal with the M50.

It's often sat for over a week without being started. It's does get a good day or two of 500km driving a few times each month.

tommyspiggy · 26-01-2016 9:58pm

Ok thanks ðŸ˜ and thats a diesel 2 is it?

dr.fuzzenstein · 26-01-2016 10:12pm

The biggest problem is when it doesn't get a good blast every now and then. Sitting up is OK, but it won't like short journeys only.

biko · 27-01-2016 1:22am

If you can, park it on a flat surface in first gear, no handbrake. Otherwise we'll have you back here again when it won't move after a cold spell and the handbrake has seized up a bit

Del2005 · 27-01-2016 4:18am

It could do with a trickle charger or else you might need a new battery with that little driving in a diesel.

_Brian · 27-01-2016 7:57am

DPF would be my worry with that driving pattern. Diesels weren't made with those short trips in mind.
Ideally every month it would need 30/60 minutes of a good steady drive on a motorway to ensure the DPF regenerates itself. Otherwise it may skip regeneration and can clog up quite quickly.

Diesel parked up half of each week

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