Goodbye Summer
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Nice looking cover - but 14 day weather forecast looks pretty stellar. That being said I'm scheduled for the end of next weekend but might push that out if the weather holds out and work schedule permits.
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In our house, we tend to keep cars for a long time, and I do all the work on them after the warranty goes out. My wife's '05 impreza (traded in 2020) and my '04 volvo still look(ed) like new on the outside, but underneath, things are (were) not so rosy. Stuff underneath - brakes, suspension, exhaust, tubing still rust a lot, not like the old days, but still a lot. The impreza had a brake line go that would have required me to strip the interior to replace. Last week I spent a few days replacing a power steering tube on the volvo that required me to remove the motor mounts, part of the exhaust and drop the subframe. Every tube on that car shows substantial rust.
I bought my 2022 boxster on the basis that it was going to replace my volvo as my daily driver. Didn't drive it last winter. Don't plan to this winter either.
The question is, how long would the boxster remain maintainable as a daily driver. My experience with the car so far indicates that it is a very fragile vehicle, at least cosmetically.
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Very valid points and I do take extra care in the winter. I rinse off the salt every single time I drive it right before parking in the garage. Wash it once a week also as road debris is also a big culprit in rust formation. Can’t speak for the boxter but I trust mine to tough it out. I also do most of the work and apply the “ounce of prevention” approach to make sure it doesn’t get to a fragile state.
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Very valid points and I do take extra care in the winter. I rinse off the salt every single time I drive it right before parking in the garage. Wash it once a week also as road debris is also a big culprit in rust formation. Can’t speak for the boxter but I trust mine to tough it out. I also do most of the work and apply the “ounce of prevention” approach to make sure it doesn’t get to a fragile state.
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Likely depends on how long you will live.
In our house, we tend to keep cars for a long time, and I do all the work on them after the warranty goes out. My wife's '05 impreza (traded in 2020) and my '04 volvo still look(ed) like new on the outside, but underneath, things are (were) not so rosy. Stuff underneath - brakes, suspension, exhaust, tubing still rust a lot, not like the old days, but still a lot. The impreza had a brake line go that would have required me to strip the interior to replace. Last week I spent a few days replacing a power steering tube on the volvo that required me to remove the motor mounts, part of the exhaust and drop the subframe. Every tube on that car shows substantial rust.
I bought my 2022 boxster on the basis that it was going to replace my volvo as my daily driver. Didn't drive it last winter. Don't plan to this winter either.
The question is, how long would the boxster remain maintainable as a daily driver. My experience with the car so far indicates that it is a very fragile vehicle, at least cosmetically.
In our house, we tend to keep cars for a long time, and I do all the work on them after the warranty goes out. My wife's '05 impreza (traded in 2020) and my '04 volvo still look(ed) like new on the outside, but underneath, things are (were) not so rosy. Stuff underneath - brakes, suspension, exhaust, tubing still rust a lot, not like the old days, but still a lot. The impreza had a brake line go that would have required me to strip the interior to replace. Last week I spent a few days replacing a power steering tube on the volvo that required me to remove the motor mounts, part of the exhaust and drop the subframe. Every tube on that car shows substantial rust.
I bought my 2022 boxster on the basis that it was going to replace my volvo as my daily driver. Didn't drive it last winter. Don't plan to this winter either.
The question is, how long would the boxster remain maintainable as a daily driver. My experience with the car so far indicates that it is a very fragile vehicle, at least cosmetically.
A Boxter will have less traction than a C4 by design, but neither will be any use in more than 4” of new snow.
For what the it is worth I love driving my Turbo all winter. It takes the winter blues away whenever I fire it up.
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I don’t want to turn this thread into a Hello Winter thread but yours is an interesting question. Having run 911s for the last 8 winters my experience is that the rubber suspension components wear much faster. I have not noticed any chassis corrosion when I swap tires in the fall or spring. With a clear bra the paint remains pristine. I do think that if you run them in the winter you need to shorten up the oil change intervals a lot. Like change it in December and then again in April regardless of distance driven.
A Boxter will have less traction than a C4 by design, but neither will be any use in more than 4” of new snow.
For what the it is worth I love driving my Turbo all winter. It takes the winter blues away whenever I fire it up.
A Boxter will have less traction than a C4 by design, but neither will be any use in more than 4” of new snow.
For what the it is worth I love driving my Turbo all winter. It takes the winter blues away whenever I fire it up.
I change my oil in November and May for peace of mind. I obviously won't take it out if there's excessive snow but up here they clear it up quite fast.
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