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      10-14-2020, 02:08 PM   #1
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Laying up G20 for a few months. Tips? Guidance?

Back story. All our consultations have gone online. We're only seeing patients on an urgent basis which between the team is covered so I'm not required to go in. Our practice has agreed this for two months at least.

In the past I have left a car on a battery tender for over a month but when I moved it. The brakes were awful.

Any tips? Tricks?

Leave it with a full tank?
Parking brake off? It will be in a garage on level ground.
Check tire pressure every few weeks?

I'll be using my wife's car if needed (which I own anyway but in marriage what's really mine is hers and what's hers is hers) as she is going through chemotherapy.

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I left my 330i in my garage for over 8 weeks without doing anything special and it started back up without any problems or issues. Only had to add some air to the tires.
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Back story. All our consultations have gone online. We're only seeing patients on an urgent basis which between the team is covered so I'm not required to go in. Our practice has agreed this for two months at least.

In the past I have left a car on a battery tender for over a month but when I moved it. The brakes were awful.

Any tips? Tricks?

Leave it with a full tank?
Parking brake off? It will be in a garage on level ground.
Check tire pressure every few weeks?

I'll be using my wife's car if needed (which I own anyway but in marriage what's really mine is hers and what's hers is hers) as she is going through chemotherapy.

Cheers

I would leave the handbrake off. As it’s in park it can’t move anyway. Apart from that a battery tender should be all you may need.

Sorry to hear about your wife .... all the best.
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