Long term parking of Jetta

Sta-bil in the fuel? And perhaps a trickle charger on the battery?

Tim

climate/temp./location/ garaged /covered/ heated garage/any or all of the above,or let me use it ,ill share the warm garage w/ my wifes passat wagon and leave my 4WD SUV outside

Heated garage is of no special help compared to a non-heated garage. It also should be no problem either.

For six months, you should be fine with just a little care of the battery. Take it out and have it charged once in a while or use a charger designed to stay on all the time.

Note: before you disconnect it, make sure you have your radio code and check to see what might happen to any other security systems. Sorry I don't know what systems were in use that year.

Heated garages tend to cause more problems in the winter than non heated. When parking a dailey driver. It causes the rusting process to happen even faster. When parking a cold car in the winter in a heated garage it allows all the snow with the salt trapped in it to melt and go into all the little cracks and crevises it can get into. Then the fact that it is heated only speeds up the corrosion process. If storing a summer car over the winter it is best to have fresh oil & filter, full tank of gas with fuel stabalizer & an automatic trickle charger to take care of the battery. IF all that is tanken care of it should be good to go come summer. The only other thing is to increase tire pressure to about 40-45PSI to prevent flat spots when sitting for long periods.

thats why i wash off what i can w/ hot water hose before i pull into my warm garage,and we wont have a vechicle long enough to find out if it rusts earlier and we never had one that had any yet in all of our vw ownership years 1974 till present

It's not uncommon to have new and used cars setting on the lot for times up to a year or more and experience no problems. What I would do, add fuel conditioner like sta-bil and use a battery maintainer. The best battery maintainers are found at marine stores which are designed to leave on batteries for ever and not "cook" the battery dry.

I agree, however for someone contemplating storing the car for six months, that is not a real issue.

You comments did bring up one point I don't think has been made. If you are in an area that uses salt and you are about to store a car that may have salt on it, it would be a good idea to get all that salt off before storage. Don't forget the salt under the car.