BMW standing for a month now

[Donna]

Hi guys, as I am new here please advice me.I own E90 325i motorsport. The car is currently been standing for a month since I am currently out of South Africa.Is the none running of my engine for a month affecting my Baby bimmer anyway?:ty:

 

[Dippies]

Yes most certainly :fencelook: the battry mite give issues

 

[Sabretooth tiger]

it should be fine, just let it idle a bit for for driving, the let it warm up properly and take a nice long drive. When you back of course

 

[Hellas]

One month will be fine, just check all the fluids and do the warm-ups like mentioned and you should be good.

An alternative would be a service that we as fellow BMW drivers have: We look after the car for you while you are away, making sure the engine gets idle'd etc.
Does anybody know the race schedule at Killarney for the next month :mmm:

 

[dino_rox]

An alternative would be a service that we as fellow BMW drivers have: We look after the car for you while you are away, making sure the engine gets idle'd etc.
Does anybody know the race schedule at Killarney for the next month :mmm:

:+1:

 

[Straight six]

:roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol::roflol:...

That's a very good gesture right there.....

im sure you want your baby alldriven up and clean when you come back

 

[Kerrits]

The manual says you have to perform certain steps (or let the dealership do it) if the car stands for longer than 3 months, so I think you'll be fine.

I wouldn't let someone just idle it. If they go through the trouble of starting the car I think they should at least drive it till it gets to operating temperature.

I've let my 135i stand for 5 weeks with a connected battery and it was just like the day I left it when I came back. No, wait, it wasn't. It was even better than I remembered it

 

[Gaviny]

One month will be fine, just check all the fluids and do the warm-ups like mentioned and you should be good.

An alternative would be a service that we as fellow BMW drivers have: We look after the car for you while you are away, making sure the engine gets idle'd etc.
Does anybody know the race schedule at Killarney for the next month :mmm:

September 7 regional racing at kilarney..:thumbs:

 

[Donna]

:ty: Thank you guys. I will down in Killarney:thumbs:

 

[Clownshoe]

All my cars stand for long periods usually 5 weeks but up to 12 weeks. They are on a ctek charger for long term battery health. Trackers will drain the battery in 5 weeks.

I check fluids. Start car and let it idles for a few minutes. Then check fluids again. Besides batteries and tyre flat spots I have not had any bad effects of the cars standing.

 

[cOlDFuSiOn]

+1 on the tyre flatspots .. I learned that the hard way with RFTs.. :flyfun:

 

[Clownshoe]

I am going to try out some sand bags next time. Take a cloth bank bag with some sand in it and park with the tyres on the bags. The tyres will bed and won't develope flat spots.

There are plastic ramp tyre things that you can buy.