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My car has been run at last every couple of weeks since I owned it (5 years ish)
but since my move seven months ago from our family home of 23yrs with very good and convenient garaging (push button , door opens , drive out) its been much more difficult.
I now have the car in a tin shed with no power and I cant even get it to the mud bath that will be the drive at some stage in the future . At the moment I have to unlock the shed , manoeuvre the car round tree stumps and other sharp pointy obstacles, remove padlock and chain from metal five bar gate , open pair of wooden gates behind them , drive through . Lock car ,Lock gates, walk back down garden , through house and down a lane to the car and start her up again.
All this just makes going for a quick spin less fun .
I really want to go and start her up and just let her run for a few minutes , the battery is getting weak and I have always thought regular running is better than SORNing ( no offence if this is your chosen method , there is good arguments for both)
However as a speed six owner I know this is not recommended .
If the issue is that when running cold oil temp and pressure are not sufficient to lubricate engine components at what point is any damage done . I will be starting and running the car at tickover to get it out to the road for maybe five minutes and if I take it out and warm it up slowly , as I always do , the car will have gone through the same cold start process regardless of continuing on for a blast .
Any thoughts anybody?
Dale
but since my move seven months ago from our family home of 23yrs with very good and convenient garaging (push button , door opens , drive out) its been much more difficult.
I now have the car in a tin shed with no power and I cant even get it to the mud bath that will be the drive at some stage in the future . At the moment I have to unlock the shed , manoeuvre the car round tree stumps and other sharp pointy obstacles, remove padlock and chain from metal five bar gate , open pair of wooden gates behind them , drive through . Lock car ,Lock gates, walk back down garden , through house and down a lane to the car and start her up again.
All this just makes going for a quick spin less fun .
I really want to go and start her up and just let her run for a few minutes , the battery is getting weak and I have always thought regular running is better than SORNing ( no offence if this is your chosen method , there is good arguments for both)
However as a speed six owner I know this is not recommended .
If the issue is that when running cold oil temp and pressure are not sufficient to lubricate engine components at what point is any damage done . I will be starting and running the car at tickover to get it out to the road for maybe five minutes and if I take it out and warm it up slowly , as I always do , the car will have gone through the same cold start process regardless of continuing on for a blast .
Any thoughts anybody?
Dale
In referring to "warm up" what I meant was drive straight out the garage and keeping revs below 3000rpm until 60 deg reached on parameter screen , I know some use 2500rpm or a gradual increase with rpm and temp but essentially its a careful/observant appreciation of the limits of the speed six . Also a bit of mechanical sympathy helps , winter ambient temperatures mean a bit of adjustment is required.
So having been careful in the past gave me reason to ask the question above , let it stand and the battery go flat & sort it out next year or turn it over for a few minutes - what harm could it do ?
Dale
So having been careful in the past gave me reason to ask the question above , let it stand and the battery go flat & sort it out next year or turn it over for a few minutes - what harm could it do ?
Dale
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