Re: Winter Storage / Oil Change again in the Spring?

[fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>]

glite wrote:
> 
> Gernot Vonhoegen wrote:
> <snip>
> > If you change the oil you will have to change it again when you take the car
> > out of storage as the additives will have aged by that time.
> 
> If I can display my ignorance.  I have often been told that after
> changing the oil before storage in the fall one must again change the
> oil before spring start-up.  Why?
> The stuff I by doesn't have a "sell by" date.
> 
> george leicht, TR6, TR3


Moisture, condensation etc. etc., Even when I do not drive my cars at all 
I still change the oil twice a year. Yes, drain and refill after the 
winter storage, it's not big bucks for the oil, it's big bucks for the 
overhaul.