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Parking Car For Winter/Extended period of time

Yarbeau

Yarbeau

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I recently purchased a 2015 F150 and have had the GTP sitting for around 4 months.

What have you guys done when parking a car for an extended period of time? I'll do the fluids and check antifreeze levels etc.

I do not have a garage so I'll be looking for a nice car cover. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
 


Car on jack stands is always a plus or just pump the tires up the max rating on the tires to help prevent flat spots. Or just move the car every once in a while.

Fill it full of fuel to prevent lots of moisture build up and run some fuel treatment in the tank aswell.

Clean the whole car out, I wouldnt keep stuff inside it that may make it smell or whatever.
 
Fill it full of fuel with fuel stabilizer, put it up on jacks, and store the battery somewhere warm.
 
Wouldn't it make more sense to pretty much empty the tank? Sure a full tank helps keep moisture out, but just like in mowers and snowblowers, doesn't the old gas gum up the fuel system? I know GP's don't have a carburetor, but wouldn't the same principles apply?
 
if you got room to just let it sit, id do all the gas stuff, then jack stands and take the wheels off and store them inside out of the winter elements.

i store mine with a cinder block then the first wheel rest on it so the tire dont touch the ground, then stack the rest up on top of it.

i dont have a garage but i have the back of a friends garage to store em. those are the winter wheels they sit like that till winter and the summer wheels get stacked come winter.

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I have 3 sets of rims/tires for this car. Winter on steelies, powder coated torque stars with new rubber and a set of bagged to Sh*t abs rims with blad tires. I'm going to let it sit on those all winter.

I'll give it a full tank and stabilizer. Change the oil and be good to go. I have emptied it out and put two bars of "zest" soap inside. Apparently it keeps mice away.

I ordered the supreme platinum or whatever top of the line car cover from carcovers.com I'll post in here when I get it and see how it does.

thanks guys
 
put some mouse poison under the hood. cant hurt. put it somewhere say where a cat cant get to it tho.

air box and the likes or a tight spot on the engine.
 
Guys

I have owned my 71 Buick GS for over thirty years.

This is what I do every November:
- Fill the tank to the very top
- Over inflate the tires
- Add a trickle charger on the battery.
- Cover the car
- Dont start the car until March

Still has the original motor and the tires were just replaced.

George
 
Yeah some crazy advice in here. I store my 03 Cobra every winter.

The springs should be loaded. Don't jack the car up.
Overinflate the tires, put a piece of carpet underneath each tire to prevent flat spots.
Battery tender/trickle charger.
Fill up the tank, add fuel stabilizer, start the car with the stabilizer in it for 5 minutes so it gets cycled into the engine.
Change the oil before storage.
Wash, wax, cover the car.
Dryer sheets in the engine bay, on top of each tire, in the passenger and drivers side footwells, in front of and behind each tire, in each tailpipe, and a few underneath the car. Mice are vicious. The worst thing you can have are mice eating your wiring during the winter. Dryer sheets are cheap. Wiring is not.
 


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