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[ihasnostang]

this is probably why all you people have "ThE CoYoTe TiCk"
/slightsarcasm

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[sk47]

Some new and used cars sit at dealers for many months unsold for various reasons and they just get in and start them.

Hello; I guess at some point a differentiation ought to be made between what can be gotten away with and what might be thought of as a best practice. Even such a statement is fraught with possible controversy.
I have already posted an example of a car owner letting a car sit for months to even years. The car would be simply cranked with no precautions over and over. If the car happened to start he often just let it idle for a few minutes and called it good. It was when it did not start I was called. Twice it was the electric low pressure fuel pump. First time I found the fuel pump dead the owner reluctantly paid for a replacement at over $200.
he drove the car a few weeks and parked it again. Two years or so later i get another call. The replacement fuel pump was dead again. Maybe 200 or so miles on it. Owner was upset. I removed the pump and tried it off a 12-volt battery to be sure. I wanted to determine what happened. The warranty was long past. I pried up the metal tabs which held it closed.
When I opened it up, I found the guts of the pump was clogged with jellied fuel goo and fuel varnish. I cleaned the pump. On a hunch I attached the pump back to the electric motor. Hit it with 12 volts and it ran.
Reported my gummed fuel discovery to the owner thinking to drive home again to not let his cars sit. He cabbaged onto that I had the pump running. Wanted me to put it back in the car. I cautioned that i had opened it up in a way not intended. I rotated the pump till i got the best performance. sealed it and bent the tabs down. surprisingly it ran for several more years.

Another example was when mice chewed my wires. My pickup was down over three months. The shop started it without precautions, and such was out of my control. So yes, we can get away with no precaution starts for some time. Such is not my point. Boils down to why not take simple precautions. but I am not trying to convince others to do different. We each get to run our cars the way we want.