Originally Posted by rubberchicken
Originally Posted by mcrn
So your Lincoln is sitting in your garage with no oil in it? Does anybody else drive it? If so you might want to disconnect the battery so nobody starts that thing with no oil.
That happened to my dad many years ago: he got called away while changing the oil on a car, and ran out of daylight. He decided to lower the car off the jacks, due to little kids etc. Never told my mom, and she wakes up early the next day and starts up the car to run an errand. I think the car made it about 1/2-1 mile and started running really badly, and cut off, so she walked home. I was pretty young, so I do not remember the conversation with my mom, but my dad was mostly mad at himself. They were generally very frugal, and it was a beater, so it was not a big deal to replace it. But they got a good laugh out of it later because was dad was a avid hunter, and he always preached that if you kill something, you have to eat it. Mom said that "technically you killed the car, so start eating".
if for whatever reason I have a vehicle sitting in the garage that shouldn't be started or moved, I take the keys out and put them elsewhere and put a piece of tape on the steering wheel and write on it do not start/move