Service before or after winter?

[juttym]

Hello Everybody,

I have a 986 2003 3.2s that has 21k miles. It has full Porsche service, but these have been based on mileage not age. Now she is 5 years old, i think i would like a 48k service.

The question is...I am eaking out the last few days of Summer here in the UK before my car gets put away for winter. Should i service it before it gets put away or leave it stood for 6 months and service it when i pull it out in spring?

I have tried to search on this question and all i revealed was that there is an opinion upon leaving oil standing due to some acid etching internally (mine has Mobil 1, if that helps !!)

Best regards

Justin.

[txhokie4life]

I think it depends on what you are going to service.

Mechanical, fluids, etc -- I think you should service it in the spring.

Optionally if you are going to do the coolant -- you can think about it now if there is any

possibility that the coolant has become more corrosive (probably unlikely) and you don't want the old stuff in the system.

Otherwise I would do a normal winterization -- but since I live in Texas -- we don't bother with that here -- some would

argue this is nw "our season" - :-)

However I certainly would clean the car, and "renew" or otherwise treat exposed rubber and weather stripping to prevent

drying out and cracking.

Search on winterizing -- those that do it probably have other suggestions.

M

[magcuda]

if you don't put it on blocks set tires to max PSI to help prevent flat spots