It is going to be hard to keep my 7 in storage this week with the forecast shown. 50 degrees Weds. til Fri. I cant wait til spring, anyone else getting the urge?

 

Up in PA we are also gonna be getting a few days of 50's but the amount of salt still on the roads i wouldnt dare. I can only dream that i can pull mine out of storage sometime in march!

 

Yea man same here, too much salt and melting snow that my 7 has never seen! I always think about taking it out this time of year once the weather starts changing but then remember what the salt does to an all metal car! She will just have to wait a few more weeks!

 

Haha ya, I vouched to never let mine see the likes of salt, as I will never forget the time my dads blazer's runners fell off in the driveway while plowing...one time in the salt and your cars done. I just got my fd from nc at the end of summer...I want nothing more than to drive it once again!

 

I hear you loud and clear. Its kind of cool though when you take it out in the spring and you are like a kid in a cnady store with a huge **** eating grin on your face!

 

Haha hell ya! That will be me for sure come spring cruising around the city blowing the doors off of salt covered mustangs haha

 

stuck at work alllll day long every day of the week. this is just a tease.

 

beef: i would rather be at work than sitting at home in the garage looking at my car wishing the snow was gone!

 

i hear ya! the 6' snow drift in front of the garage bay door is getting smaller and smaller!

pls- where are you from? my car's garaged in central massachusetts.

 

this friday almost 60 degrees out here cant wait

 

even though it will warm up the roads are a mess, the right hand lane is solid gravel and kicks up so much debris- road rash is not avoidable

I have to take the car out for some dyno runs and I am not looking forward to it, will plan my trip very carefully

the other day on the way to work some douchebag flew by in the right lane and it looked like a cloud of stones behind him, have to wait for a few more good rains and the street sweepers to go out and do their thing



then there is the potholes!

 

Zum- Yea I can't wait I have access to my storage but don't want to take her out other than starting her up in the driveway. I am currently in Clinton, MA about 10 mins north of Worcester but the 7 is at my dads shop in Winchendon, on the MA/NH border off Rt. 2.

Rob- You are correct about the **** on the roads and thats why I am not getting the 7 out for a while. The potholes are fun to avoid!

 

I've been taking mine out. I always made sure it has a fresh coat of wax on it though. I usually try to clean and wax the car every week or two when I take it now. I think driving it has made the itch worse.

 

wax aint going to stop road rash

 

look at my car... but i think i am going to wait until it rains a few times..the salt dust is a killer..i want to move to california . getting tired of the weather ....

 

My cars looks would be improved from kicked up road debris
It's those potholes! Haven't driven since beginning of november... But I've been turning the engine over by hand with some oil in the housings periodically.

 

wait, the snows not gone?

 

I am starting to see some grass in my neck of the woods but it just keeps snowing!

 

I drove my SA today. I just couldn't take it any longer,and the roads are dry,and salt free free after all the rain we have had recently. It was so nice to drive it again after sitting for 3+ months!!!!

 

Been taking it out at least once a week, even during the winter months.

I checked underneath the car and there is no visible damage or any imperfections from the salt.

Wheel wells (liners) could use a good cleaning though and ill get to that when i change my brakes.

 

You guys are funny, I daily drive my car even in the winter. As long as theres not too much snow on the floor I don't see a problem with taking the car out in the winter.

 

^I daily'd my '91 back in the day. Drove through anything and everything, every month. But now I walk to the train station in the morning, and I have 2 cars that I barely drive. My FC is always broken, so I can't take it out regardless.

 

This is true. But i guess people worry since our cars are old.

I have another car, 2006 that i daily drive and i didnt care what was out there, i drove lol.

When it was hailing, sleeting, snowing, that 2 inch storm we got and trucks CAKED the roads with salt, i drove through it.

I just did the oil change to that car yesterday and underneath looked perfect lol

I guess you just have to remember to drive in the rain as well after driving through winter months lol

 

Its not that my cars old or that I have had to have a 2nd car for daily driving, it's that there are so many unforeseeable factors in winter that you dont have to worry about any other season (more salt/sand that can kick you sideways even when driving cautiously that doubles as undercarriage deteriorates, potholes on every road/highway, trying to push a 2" gap with front spoiler yet alone a FEED front through any amount of snow, or how everyone somehow forgets how to drive whenever it rains or snows) that keeps it in the garage all winter.

By all means, bring your FD up to New England next winter during one of our storms and we'll see how far you can go.

 

ne drivers hahahahahahaha this winter was the busyest for the body shop that my shop is affiliated with. and the pot holes damn 3 cars in 2 days bent here rims on this one pot hole on 44 in putnam. cant imagine driving my cym or 10ae in the winter