As you can see from my signature, my parents own a 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee, bought new by them in January 1995 (they've now given it to me). Being a Jeep, it's had many, many reliability issues, and being as we live in the salt belt, the shocks, control arms and some other suspension parts have become very rusted, but the body itself is in okay condition. We let it sit for about a year, and finally took it to a mechanic, hoping to get it running for the winter, but it turned out that it was unsafe to drive because of the rusted out suspension components. Now, that's not too hard of a fix, but on a car that's only worth about $1000, doing any repairs really challenges the value of doing it at all. Long story short, the Jeep is going to sit in a garage away from where we live, and I'm going to fix/play around it in the coming summer. But, my question is, how do I keep it in running condition while still storing it for about nine months? I can definitely start it up maybe once or twice a month, but that's about it. It's running now (hasn't been running for a year) and I don't want to have to take it back to a mechanic to get it started again, like I did this time. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. :thumbsup:
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