Rule number 1: Remember the fuel stabilizer before shutting down - then it will run smoothly again next spring!
It's not just boats, motorcycles, classic cars and sports cars that regularly hibernate. Chainsaws and lawnmowers also take a break in winter.
But if you rest, you rust! This has been popular wisdom for more than 100 years. The fuel tank and other metal parts of the fuel supply system confirm this popular wisdom year after year - and happily rust away during the downtime.
What the vernacular could not yet know is how acidic modern fuel reacts to long downtimes. Bacteria produce dirt and sludge in the tank. With their help, extremely corrosive acetic acid is produced more quickly - even more quickly than it would be anyway through pure fuel ageing.
Decomposition products of modern fuels stick together and gum up all moving parts of the fuel supply system. Injection nozzles and carburettor flaps seize up, nozzles and filters become clogged.
Modern fuel also loses its ignitability at an unprecedented rate. In extreme cases, the fuel can no longer be used to start the engine after just a few weeks. It must therefore be completely drained and replaced with fresh fuel.
To prevent this from happening, Walter Wagner has developed two products that stabilize the fuel:
BACTOFIN for vehicles with petrol engines; two-stroke, four-stroke and Wankel engines that run on petrol fuels, and a modern diesel additive for all vehicles that run on diesel or crude oil.
Rule number 2: Lubrication service before the winter break!
The experts at WAGNER Classic Oil clearly recommend changing the oil BEFORE the winter break.
For the following reasons: The engine oil has been working over the past season. And in doing so, it absorbed dirt and water. Fuel residues also collect in the old oil. Incidentally, the less often and the shorter the vehicle was in use, the more this happens. Skipping the annual oil change because you have driven so little anyway would therefore be a big mistake!
Dirt, water and fuel residues can damage the engine during the long winter break due to acid formation and corrosion. Even an oil change in the spring cannot change the damage caused.
If, on the other hand, the engine is given fresh oil before it is shut down, it is well protected during the rest period. And you can start and drive off in the spring with no worries at the first ray of sunshine.
The remaining lubrication and maintenance services should also be carried out before the winter break. A full lubrication is definitely part of this.
