Summer storage

[Breakdown]

Take my opinion for what it's worth. I've been storing winter cars for 3 years now.

 

I think that you're making this far too complicated.

 

Most of the things that are being suggested were also suggested in the Nick TGP thread.

 

There's some incredible differences here:

 

1.) You're starting your car every week.

 

2.) You have access to your car and can drive it.

 

3.) You're storing a winter car and not a summer one.

 

 

These are my opinions (not expert but how I operate):

 

-You're starting the car weekly, in warm weather. The battery shouldn't and won't suffer. In my opinion the trickle charger is a waste of money.

 

-When you start the car back it up turn it some (power steering) and hopefully when you pull it back in, you'll be sitting on a new (random spot on the tires), simply backing the car up and pulling forward should put you on the same spot.

 

-I think that an hour is a little hairy. It's fine if it's your only start in months, but otherwise it's a waste of gas, 20 minutes tops (I do less and open up the throttle a little even in neutral. I keep mine at 3,000 RPM for about a minute.

 

-The rodent stuff. I've never had these issues. If you keep the car active, I think that they stay away, or maybe I've never had rodents in the garage, either way. The worst that I got is wasps both in the gas door and between the front passenger side doors.

 

-I like full tank of gas, the tanks on these cars always develop leaks up top. I think that it's because there's not always fuel up there, but that's just me arriving to idiotic conclusions that aren't really based on factual knowledge.

 

-Turn interior lights off when you get out of the car.

 

 

I don't think i am making this complicated at all, just wanted some input. This is the first time i am storing a car out of my grasp and outdoors, where i can do everything to it when i want/need.

 

I am relying on my father to start the car up every week, he is an older/busy man, so it is not guaranteed he will do it every time. So that is why i am going to attach the maintainer to it, just in case.

 

They live 3hrs away and i rarely go down that way because i am always busy and there is nothing down there for me, other then my parents, who come to the city a couple times a month. So the access to driving it is not great, plus it will not be plated or insured.

 

And as far as saying i am storing a winter car not a summer one...... you don't think i know that?

 

And as far as the rodents are concerned, i never said there would be any, but like i said, it will be stored outdoors, not in the garage, so there IS the possibility of mice. My parents live in the country, not the city.

 

If you have the maintainer now, do it, if you don't *shrugs* wouldn't bother. If the battery dies if there's anything three weeks or under for starts, it was going to die in the winter anyhow. Take that to the bank.

 

I'll be 100% honest, I drive my cars, plated but uninsured. When I say drive, I mean around the neighbourhood, yes, it's illegal, but I drive very carefully which is not the same as saying that while driving drunk. Every winter until I got the other Grand Prix the Cutlass Supreme would have some collosal fail and I'd ask the insurance company to hold the insurance for both cars for the weekend, they haven't charged me for it yet, just incase I've lost the one car for the weekend. They'll do it for you if you ask, but it's hard to do that if you change plates back and fourth.

 

Your driving access isn't bad & to be honest the best way to go about things is to do them yourself, visit every 4-6 weeks. I'm just saying you have access whereas someone like Nick who moved from Minnesota to Phoenix doesn't.