thinking about garaging car for the winter
 

So driving in the massive rain yesterday made me want to let my BRZ rest for the winter season. It was fun doing donuts in the wet, but I have too much camber now and with the shitty grooves on the freeway, I had trouble going straight.

Are you guys still going to daily your 86 throughout the winter? I try to enjoy my car as much as I can but the combination of safety concerns, getting filthy dirty and vented hood in the rain, I'm leaning strongly towards garaging it until next spring. I have a spare garage in a different building not too far away so I will drive it when its super nice out.

I just hate driving my SUV, so boring.

Considering it is my only source of transportation besides feet I will be driving it until the tires fall off

Got an extra spot for one more. ��

Welcome to my world of winter garage queen. All great points and one last one i like to throw in is i don't want some ass hat hitting or rear ending me because they aren't paying attention to the wet or icy road conditions!! Do it become the garage queen. You will fall back in love with the car when spring comes back around.

Mine stays in the garage most winter for similar issues (lots of camber, strut mounts letting water into engine compartment, oil cooler overcooling, etcetera)

Get yourself a winter banger, treat it mercilessly, then sell it next year for what you paid. I finally blew the transmission in my Jetta a few weeks ago and still sold it for what I paid

so what you are saying is buy honda civic...trash it...profit?

Yes exactly. Once it's all used up throw on some window stickers, cut the springs, and sell it for a profit. :burnrubber:

might go hit up a dealer car auction to see what they got. Bad weather means less people to bid against.

Salvaged bank repo'd STI would be fun to fuck around with lol..

is there one local? If i can get a decent beater for ~500-800 I'm in

Let me know when you hit that up.

Winter wheels and tires ftw. Oh wait camber. nvm

Its every wednesday at Crosspoint NW. They're not on top of shit when it comes to the auction car list, but it usually goes up the night before on their website.

If my buddy bids on a car (he's got the dealer license) then I think you have like 3 days to go pick up your car and pay cash there. Its pretty time consuming so I'm gonna take a cut if I'm gonna do the home work for you for the car. My buddy has the carfax app (shits like $600 a month) to check for the records. I can test drive the car there as well.

I probably won't have time to hit it up next week though, but I'll let you guys know when I do go. Shits fun, shady people, free breakfast buffet lol.

If I can buy a car sub 1000. I'm in.

Auctions open to the public? I understand only dealers can bid, but can anybody show up and see what is on the block? I've already got a new beater for this season, but wouldn't be opposed to picking up something different if the opportunity arises.

Is it usually just fairly new (<10 model years) beige/boring type cars or do they get old/interesting type stuff too? I've been meaning to pick up an X300 or X308 Jaguar as a daily for a while now.

or an 850r
or an SRT-4
or a Maurauder
or a W12 Phaeton :wub:

My BRZ will be in the garage for 2/3 of my driving now that I bought a BMW for my daily commute. :) I unfortunately sold the bike I just bought in order to get the BMW, but at least I sold it for what I bought it for, plus I decided I'm going to get an electric bike for my next bike once I pay off one of my debts. I still have my Dainese leathers so I won't need to buy those again.

If I were you I'd still drive the BRZ a lot, just not in a monsoon like yesterday. A little rain yes, but monsoon no if there's another vehicle to drive.

If I had another car that I could use permanently that wasn't shared with anyone else, I would probably store my car for the winter; I got to drive a 4Runner to work yesterday during the heavy rain, and it crossed my mind several time during the trip that I was glad to be driving that, and not my FR-S in the awful weather.

I hate driving it in the wet, and I feel like the paint is so susceptible to damage and water spots, it makes me worry for it driving on the freeway with all of the traffic that happens during the bad weather, and I have to spend 10 - 15 minutes after I get home carefully trying to dry off all of the level surfaces that will otherwise leave water spots if I just let them evaporate.

Especially as my car is asphalt, I feel like with the bad weather and darker lighting during the winter that I'm constantly having to watch out for idiot SUVs merging into me (although that's gotten better with the new exhaust :)).

Although, it would be hard to say that I wouldn't miss driving my car, but it would be nice to have another option always available at least.

Which BMW did you buy?

I'll be garaging mine. I have the garage space & a lease overlap that's left me with a bonus car until March. So I'll be driving a Kia Soul for the winter.

On that note whats proper procedure? Do I drain all fuel? Pull the battery and block the car up to keep the tires from developing flat spots? I've never wintered a car before.

1. Fill (top off) with gas and add a stabilizer (or better yet ethanol free gas + stabilizer)

2. Wax your car

3. Change oil

4. Hook up trickle charger (don't disconnect battery, you'll lose all ecu fuel trims and learning)

5.a. Inflate all tires to max sidewall pressure
or
5 b. Put the car on jack-stands (preferred)

6. Do not leave handbrake on, it'll fuse to the rotors.


Note, it is not necessary to start the car every few weeks, actually a bit harmful

source: I've been winterizing bikes for years.

i3

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Does this make you happy! :p

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You are a man of eclectic tastes in motor vehicles Josh! Good luck with the new ride.

Were the engineers blind? Holy shjt that car is fugly.
Makes the Leaf look like a Ferrari.
Guess it'll work in rainstorms.
Sorry Josh.

I'm neutral on how it looks. I do however like everything else about it.

Glad it's working out for you. I hear good reviews on the car.

I saw one haulin ass going I-5 South from the 405 split/downtown area. Was that you @stockysnail lol?

At lunch I got on 405 north to the pearl but that was it. Mine is dark grey. Soon it will have the C-Goat plates and my BRZ will have new plates, yet to be decided upon, something more track esque. Also soon it will have a couple decepticon decals on it as well. ;) The i3 does haul ass pretty well.