# Advice in preparing to park my Suby for 3 months?

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/advice-in-preparing-to-park-my-suby-for-3-months/9978>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advice-in-preparing-to-park-my-suby-for-3-months/9978 "2008-01-29T03:37:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![megh68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@megh68](https://community.cartalk.com/u/megh68)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advice-in-preparing-to-park-my-suby-for-3-months/9978/1 "2008-01-29T03:37:29Z")

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Hi all. $$ is a little tight and so I’m planning on pulling the insurance from my beloved 1995 green Subaru wagon (keeping the comprehensive if there’s a break-in or a tree falls on her) and parking her for 3 months. (She’s been misbehaving too, and I can’t afford to figure out what’s up.)  
  
  
  
 My question is this…What do I need to do to make sure that she’ll start and run again when I have enough $$ to get her fixed? I just got a new battery 6 months ago. Anything else I should do?  
  
  
  
 Thanks!

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**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advice-in-preparing-to-park-my-suby-for-3-months/9978/2 "2008-01-29T04:23:13Z")

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Three months isn’t that long. Wash the car and fill the tank and use Stabil fuel stabilizer just to be sure. I guess I would be inclined to pull the battery or put a charger on it every couple of weeks or so. Other than that I wouldn’t worry about it. I did just the opposite though on my little used car. I dumped everything except the liability and it cost me mayber $150 a year for insurance.

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**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 11:25am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advice-in-preparing-to-park-my-suby-for-3-months/9978/3 "2008-01-29T11:25:39Z")

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Or get a battery tender, which is made for that kind of use.

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**Author:** ![andrew\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@andrew\_j](https://community.cartalk.com/u/andrew_j)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 12:04pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/advice-in-preparing-to-park-my-suby-for-3-months/9978/4 "2008-01-29T12:04:50Z")

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Not worth the hassle or hazard if parked outside.