Winter Prep

Alright well this is not only for me but for others who arent winter driving their car. What are some tips and procedures to get your vehicle to do 6 months of waiting? I know some like taking the battery out and storing it inside over the winter. But what else. I was thinking of leaving it on jack stands and supports all winter, is this good or bad idea?

I dont know if thats neccesary, but I've never done it so dont take my word lol. I never have and everything seems fine to me. Obviously make sure you have enough glycol in your coolant so it doesn't freeze, grab a thing of fuel stabalizer(not sure if its needed? I usually do it anyways).

Cover up any openings where mice can get in, has to be a material that a mouse isn't going to bite through of course.

Change the oil before you start it in the spring.

All i can think of at the moment, sure there is more.

Cody wrote:

I dont know if thats neccesary, but I've never done it so dont take my word lol. I never have and everything seems fine to me. Obviously make sure you have enough glycol in your coolant so it doesn't freeze, grab a thing of fuel stabalizer(not sure if its needed? I usually do it anyways).

Cover up any openings where mice can get in, has to be a material that a mouse isn't going to bite through of course.

Change the oil before you start it in the spring.

All i can think of at the moment, sure there is more.

yeah prob throw some mice repellant and also bounce sheets i heard work, but ill be working on the car alot so its not like ill be to worried bout mice but yeah for sure im gonna seal it up and i heard batterys should come inside if you wanna keep em in good condition.

And wouldnt the tires get flat spots if sitting for 6 months without moving

I haven't experience any tire problems, but the tires I usually have are say.. 225 70 I'm not too sure about low-profile tires. Probably wouldn't hurt to take em off.

And yeah definately take the battery out and don't put it on cement, put it on cardboard or something.

Alright for sure, also anyone know of a butane heater or some sort of heating solution for my garage, its not insulated and i wanna work on my car in the winter

find a propane heater from a camper or something, so you can vent it outside so you dont have to worry about fumes, or go old school and use a wood stove.

put it on jack stands, cover all openigns then cover it up and put that fuel stuff for get wat its called

step 1 : drive into garage
step 2 : drive out 6 months later.

DONE












just kidding , here is something i found on the internet. I would follow this :

http://www.techguys.ca/howto/winter.html

Oh.... and i would change the oil BEFORE i stored it. Oil can get acidic. Why do you think oil change intervals are " 5000 kms or 6 months, whichever comes first. " All that acid inside the engine is no good.

Fiorante wrote:

find a propane heater from a camper or something, so you can vent it outside so you dont have to worry about fumes, or go old school and use a wood stove.

propane fucks u up. lol

ePHin wrote:

Fiorante wrote:

find a propane heater from a camper or something, so you can vent it outside so you dont have to worry about fumes, or go old school and use a wood stove.

propane fucks u up. lol

Thats why i said vent it outside

For heating, get a couple of those heat lamps and set them in random places in your garage.

get underfloor heating it would be amazing but it would cost about $2000 probably and you have to rip up the concrete or pour an inch more concrete overtop of existing concrete.

I work for Uponor and thats what we do. Its very efficient and you can have different rooms at different temps and what not. I design the pipe-layouts on autocad.

sorry, off topic.. yeah get a propane heater, I have a little electric one and it takes like an hour or longer to heat the garage..

I will be storing the 240 over winter also and not touch it for 6 months so this shall be helpful to me as well. One thing I thought of before storing it wouldn't be a bad idea to wash it up nice and wax it to seal it? This may be a little over the top but if there is any tiny stone chips to bare metal may bay a good idea.

corey wrote:

I will be storing the 240 over winter also and not touch it for 6 months so this shall be helpful to me as well. One thing I thought of before storing it wouldn't be a bad idea to wash it up nice and wax it to seal it? This may be a little over the top but if there is any tiny stone chips to bare metal may bay a good idea.

I thought the exact same thing im gonna wash it up wax and also delete the surface rust in my wheel well and use a paint pen to seal that as well

You may want to look into something more than just a paint pen seeing as that won't penetrate it as much as you'd like it to.

I think you guys worry too much

I'm sorry we don't accept rust as a joyful thing as it seems you do from that comment.

Well its nothign much really just like in the fender i guess on the inside its like minor minor surface rust i just wanna get rid of