Not driving your car

Lafalum84
Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:34:55 +0000

Our son left his 11 year old Camry in our driveway when he went to college. We had intended to drive it at least weekly, but it doesn’t have heated seats and our other cars do and we live in New England, so… it sat in the driveway undriven for most of the winter. The next summer the brakes seemed to be getting weaker, so I took it to the shop. It ended up needing $1500 in brake repairs - basically replacing the entire braking system on all wheels, including the calipers which had rusted/frozen in place. S had driven the car a little bit over Christmas, when there was snow - and therefore salt - on the roads. Then we left it sitting, and apparently that did the trick.

So I recommend finding someone to drive your car a little bit at least once a week.