Good god don't change the oil, it will have a heck of a dry start after! If you must do it, do it after you get it running. Any misfires etc will then be caught up in the old oil.
Like everyone said look for rodents in the air cleaner, charge the battery, and hit the key. Modern cars with their EVAP sealed systems will hold most of the good parts of gas from evaporating. If you do put gas in, put high-test in, but do that after you get it running. Otherwise you'll have more bad gas to get rid of. It's like mixing bad milk with good milk, you just wind up with more bad milk.
If you're looking to sell it, run through that gas that's in it, then another tank of fresh fuel, so it can relearn its knock retard etc. A transmission fluid change might help it show better as would scraping all that rust off the brakes. After that you're just throwing money away. Used car prices are nuts now, so that'll sell.
Like everyone said look for rodents in the air cleaner, charge the battery, and hit the key. Modern cars with their EVAP sealed systems will hold most of the good parts of gas from evaporating. If you do put gas in, put high-test in, but do that after you get it running. Otherwise you'll have more bad gas to get rid of. It's like mixing bad milk with good milk, you just wind up with more bad milk.
If you're looking to sell it, run through that gas that's in it, then another tank of fresh fuel, so it can relearn its knock retard etc. A transmission fluid change might help it show better as would scraping all that rust off the brakes. After that you're just throwing money away. Used car prices are nuts now, so that'll sell.
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