Long Vehicle Inactivity - Fiat Ducato Owner's Manual

LONG VEHICLE INACTIVITY

If the vehicle needs to be off the road for longer than one
month, the following precautions must be taken:
❒ park the vehicle indoors in a dry and, possibly, well-ven-
tilated place;
❒ engage a gear;
❒ check that the handbrake is not engaged;
❒ disconnect the negative battery terminal and check bat-
tery charge. Repeat this check once every three months
during storage. Recharge if the optical indicator shows
a dark colour without the central green area (see "Bat-
tery recharging" in the section "Dashboard and con-
trols"); If the vehicle is equipped with a battery discon-
nection function (disconnector), see the description of
the procedure in the "Controls" paragraph in the
"Dashboard and controls" section;
❒ clean and protect the painted parts using protective
wax;
❒ clean and protect the shiny metal parts using special
compounds readily available;
❒ sprinkle talcum powder on the rubber windscreen and
rear window wiper blades and lift them off the glass;
❒ slightly open the windows;
❒ cover the vehicle with a piece of fabric or perforated
plastic sheet. Do not use compact plastic tarpaulins,
which prevent humidity from evaporating from the sur-
face of the vehicle;
❒ inflate tyres to a pressure of +0.5 bar above the nor-
mal specified pressure and check it at intervals;
❒ if you don't disconnect the battery from the electric sys-
tem, check its charge every month and recharge it if the
optical indicator shows a dark colour without the cen-
tral green area;
❒ do not drain the engine cooling system.
IMPORTANT If the vehicle is equipped with an alarm,
switch off the vehicle alarm with the remote control.
DASHBOARD
AND CONTROLS
SAFETY
STARTING
AND DRIVING
WARNING LIGHTS
AND MESSAGES
IN AN EMERGENCY
MAINTENANCE
AND CARE
TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS
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