Dale Gribble

This year i'm determined to do this properly, if not on the cheap.
I've got cardboard, carpet and styrofoam under the tires (which are inflated to 52PSI). Car was fully detailed and battery removed.

Is there anything i'm forgetting? Are the tires far enuff off the concrete?

Thanks

Sputter

Nothing ghetto about storing your car at home. It's in far better hands at home than some storage place.

Filled the tank and added stabil?, hook up the battery maintainer? change the oil? plug the pipes to keep the rodents out? place some selicate (sp?) in the trunks and inside the car to absorb any moisture.
Some folks leave the doors unlatched so as to not keep the door rubbers compressed all winter. (trunk(s) too).
I'd only add enough air to the max of the tire, 52 seems high. 46-48lbs likely but the tires will say.

Sputter

oh, and leave the parking brake off.
That's just off the top of my head Omar.
P.S. A fitted cover is nice too.

Sputter

One more thing... your wheel crest should point to your valve stem, it adds 2 hps.

TrackdayRSA.

Omar, I'm just getting things ready to store the car and I have been searching for something to park the car on to get the tires off the concrete- found the perfect solution last week at Home Depot; its called a "fatigue mat" and it is thick rubber with holes in it. For $20 you can buy a 3' by 3' mat, which can be cut into three strips and attached together to give you a nice 9 foot long 1 foot wide rubber strip to park on. Personally i kinda like the $40 solution unless of course you would rather spend $349 US for a set of tire cradles. If you want I'll shoot you a pic.

petee_c

I've only read that here.... Not sure what the benefit is....

ALL my vehicles have always had the rubber compressed, except maybe the 10 seconds it takes me to enter/exit the vehicle a couple times a day......

The rest is sound advice.

Dale Gribble

thanks guys.
now beginning the countdown to spring. 151 days to go.

Mark Lue

I hope you're NOT going to leave the battery on the garage floor, where it is in the middle picture....that'll make it go bad really fast.

NITEALB

I'm gonna use a few layers of carpet underlay for the tires. How important is the oil change for storage?

TrackdayRSA.

[QUOTE=NITEALB;7066371]I'm gonna use a few layers of carpet underlay for the tires. How important is the oil change for storage?[/QUOTE]

I've always been told its best to leave it and change it first thing in the spring.

Sultan

Hey Chris, yes, if you don't mind, post a pic, I'm curious to see the set up.

Sultan

TrackdayRSA.

Here is a crappy picture of it. The rubber is about 3/4 of an inch thick and the sections of mat just snap together.

iJeremy

I was thinking the same... Aren't your doors usually closed anyways?... If you want to be sure just open/close the door every once in awhile when you walk by... I'd rather be sure and keep rodents out of the interior.

SH || NC

How is that?

Jaak Lepson

Keep batteries off concrete floors as it will kill it. Store it on a shelf in the basement and charge it up once a month. Chemical reaction when it is close the the cement floor.

Change your oil!!! Always store with fresh oil that is NOT contaminated with crap & acids from use. Even if you use cheap stuff ... it's miles better than used oil.

Buy some blue styrafoam for Home repo for a few bucks and break it into 4 pieces. Place them in front of the tires and slowly drive up on them. Look in the insulation department, same as the stuff you put in the walls.

Omar ... leave the windows down about an inch or so to keep ventilated. Throw a car cover over it ... not a plastic tarp as the car needs to breath.

EDIT: Use Shell 91 to fill the tank as other gasolines have Ethanol in them which absorbs water/moisture .... Shell 91 is 100% gasoline!