Car Storage

[transient]

What all do you need to do to prep the car to be stored? I've got a nice garage just waiting for it <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[DragonReborn214]

Unplug the battery?

[transient]

Actually I was planning on taking out the battery and putting a tender on it. I think you've gotta fill the tank up and put some stabalizer in, and a few other things too...

[DragonReborn214]

Sorry bro, I live in southern california. :confused:

[transient]

hahaha, obviously not farmilliar with the problem of snow <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[my240likenoother]

what i do is leave about 1 gallon in the tank unhook the battey and go out every month and let it idle for about 15 min you dont have to do that but if you dont put the stablizer in you do
i also take the tiers off and put the car on blocks (make shure that the ground is level and that the car is also level you could twist the fram over the winter
and in the spring run a fuel add. to a full tank of 93 octain and change and check all the major fluids
well that is what i do for the winter

[transient]

Umm, I've always been told that you should leave the tank full so that no moisture gets in there.

btw, why put the car on blocks? To keep the tires balanced?

(Edited by transient at 3:50 pm on Oct. 8, 2001)

[mike95s14]

I don't have an alternate car for the winter, but I need to get one. &nbsp;BTW, what do you guys drive then?

[transient]

I've got my eyes on a subi GL at the moment, 4wd. With good reason around here in the winter <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

[my240likenoother]

the tiers will get flat spots on them from sitting all winter

[misnomer]

Hmm, I park my car in the driveway all winter, start it up about every day, and drive it to work and back, and anywhere else I need to be <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'> I do have that &quot;snow&quot; issue, but it never sticks more than a couple days (y'know, a foot on Monday, 70 degrees n blue skies on Thursday sorta thing). My DoT doesn't lay salt on the roads, just dirt, so as long as I wash every month or so, I'm golden :-)

[misnomer]

Oh yeah, and this is my old '89 in the first snow of last winter <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>




(Edited by misnomer at 9:44 pm on Oct. 11, 2001)

[AJ]

oh &nbsp;i love snow.. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> colorado is the best place on earth,, i'm gettin a job there when i get in and outa college. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> cincy snows a lil, but they DO salt the roads.. miserable,, lucky me, i have a 92 lumina just waiting to be drivin... my car will be stored for most of the winter.. &nbsp;if i drive it once a week will it get flat spots on the tires?

[my240likenoother]

na if it sits for a long time they do
but that us what i have heard