[Benjamin]

Thanks for the advice everyone. At night in the early spring and late fall it gets down to freezing, and so the engine has sat cold all night in those temps and then I drive to work. During the winter it gets below 0 at times, but I'm not driving. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't using something that was made for a warmer climate (where the coldest it gets is like 60).

You all make a good point on changing the oil in the fall and not waiting until the spring. Not that it makes a huge difference here, but the oil that's in there only has 3000 miles on it.

I also am of the school that says don't start it up once it's in storage. Most of the damage happens in the first few seconds when the oil hasn't circulated throughout the engine, and starting it up once per month just makes the engine go through the "dry" process 6 times instead of 1.