Any good tips or advice, I can get for storing my FD through the winter. It will mostly be under a car cover outside. Garage is to small to fit it. I will probably be cranking her off and on say a couple times a month, once the snow touches the ground. But is there anything else I should do aside from that. This will be the first time having the FD while snow will be on the ground, and it gets damn cold where Im at. I just don't want to have the rotary to seize and freeze on me if thats possible.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

You live in Washington State and going to keep your FD outside?????Rent a storage facility I pay like $65 a month for a 10x20. If you can't aford that find a friend with room in their garage. Snow and winter weather on a sports car disaster waiting to happen. Man you'll have squirels and bunnys living in that thing before spring.

 

bah, there are alot of members here that daily drive their fd in the winter.. im sure its not that bad..as far as storing it? i would just start it at least once a week, make sure you disconnect the neg terminal of the battery after each start up to prevent it from dying..

thats what i did last winter, i kept the car under a cover, i started it every week at least, sometimes every 4 days, i would let it idle for a good 15 minutes, then move it around in the driveway.. etc.

my only concern is to the people with non seq.. do we have to boost once in a while to keep them from seizing? last winter i didnt do that and havent experienced any problems but i wanted to know if there is a correct way...

 

I also heard to top all fluids so it won't rust.... like gasoline... and stuff like that....
I used to live in Bellevue WA.... and leaving the car for some periods at a time was not that bad at all..... just drive it around at least like.... 2 weeks or so... and your car will be happy.

 

Just make sure your coolant mixture is adequate, Change all the other fluids oil etc... Also that way you wont have to worry about that in the spring right away, Fill up the tank or use a fuel stabilizer, Wrap it up good if its going to be outside, Shrink wrap it or Ive used a huge roll of saran wrap you can get at home depot & a tarp. Mostly I would worry about keeping it out of the sun...

 

if your going to store it and not drive it. Put it up on jackstands so the tires are off the ground.

 

Don't set your parking brake, use chocks. I came back from being out in desert last winter and my car made an awful sound I finally moved it. The parking brake had welded itself to the rotor.

 

I heard this does some damage to the struts?

 

LOL

happened to me 2 winters ago when i had my talon..after a pretty tough blizzard, the snow would clear and it would be time to go back to work. i would start my car after like 5 days of it sitting through the storm, i get in, warm it up etc, then when its time to go. it felt like something was holding me back..it took me like 10 minutes to figure out that my parking brake was stuck.. the handle would go down but the cable was locked.. i had to like drive it like that stopping hard hopefully heating up the cable or its mechanism so it can release..after 3 days of not pulling up the handbrake, the cable finally released..