A *certain situation* has brought me back home to my parents house, but my car is across the country at my school, not being used until ~September. Why does everyone keep insisting it needs to be turned on/driven every once in a while? (Which it is, my landlords a pretty cool guy and offered to do it!
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Cars that sit fall apart. Al;l the parts that need oil and grease on te=hem dry up and start to rust. Driving the car spreads the oil and grease where it belongs in the engine, the wheel bearings and on the seals that sotp the oil and grease from leaking out. If they sit for a long time those seals dry out and crack and start to leak. Also the brakes rust, and the brake seals dry out. And so on and so forth. The worst thing you can do to a car is let it sit for a long time. That is before we even talk about the battery going dead over time so if you left it until September it would not even start. And the battery likes a little exercise too.
Your landlord is a good chap, take him a small token of appreciation, preferable beer.
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