Mongo

I wish I could say that I have a garage right now and a new house but I don't. We are still house hunting up here and my shark has to sit outside for the winter. The car is running but I haven't had the chance to drive it for about 2 weeks since I put the new O2 sensor. The battery is disconnected right now.

I've been driving it less to cut down my fuel costs. This morning I came out to a VERY COLD San Rafael and a frozen car cover on the 928. I will be starting it on occasion and driving it on the weekends only. I'm a little concerned about my car sitting outside in cold winters up here. It's not snowing but just has me worried if there will be anything bad coming out of this after putting a lot of pocket change into lots of new stuff under the hood.

Randy V

Is there a question in there Andrew, or just some general pining for your 928?

Mongo

*sigh*

Is it bad for it to be sitting out in the cold for long times then?

There how's that? I've never had a car just sit around for a while outside. Everything is pretty much driven with the exception of that one.

Randy V

Porsche tested the 928 in the Arctic.

Many drive (and park) their 928 in places where it actually snows.




I'm sure you'll be fine.

VehiGAZ

Mongo, if your car spent a summer in San Francisco, then I wouldn't worry about a winter there!

No seriously, if you keep it covered, not much is going to happen to it. You will be fine.

By the way, your W quote is great - it shows how dumb he is to think that armies are coming after us! We haven't fought a real army since Korea!

OK, that's just goading you, I realize. I'm sorry. Kind of.

Bill51sdr

Sound familiar Andy?

Randy V

It's a double-dose of tough love, eh Bill?

anonymousagain

Andy - no garage for ours and no issues over the years. Consider Euro driving was intended to encounter snow and adverse conditions...remember how the heater valve was designed.

Still for piece of mind, we cover ours to feel better about protection from the elements, and the RotellaT 5-40w makes me feel better about cold-ish startups. Nevertheless, life in the Bay Area for a 928 is far from harsh.

Good luck with the house hunting!!

Tampa 928s

Can't you rent a storage area and park the car inside?

Daniel Dudley

You can run these suckers with stabil in the tank. I like to have some in there, or run some techron from time to time, to keep the injectors freed up.

That's all you need.

dr bob

Andy--

Don't start the thing unless you plan to drive it and get the engine loaded up enough to get real oil temps. It will never get hot enough without driving. Low oil temps mean condensation in the oil from combustion byproducts doesn't evaporate. Get a maintainer for the battery and drive it when you can. If the gas sits in there for more than a month, put some Sta-Bil in the tank. Overinflate the tires to avoid flat spots. Drive the Fiesta.