I've officially put my car in storage for the winter... I will now enter my winter state of severe depression, followed by the ache for a drive...

Until March, I will suffer in this agony....

 

I feel for you......that sucks

 

I put my car in storage when I went up to NJ. I was gone for about a week, and boy did it feel good to get back into the car. I was driving a mustang, a saturn and a moving truck... so when I sat back in the RX-8, I could feel the leather seats wrapping around me, it was like the car was giving me a hug.

 

Bummer... maybe you can find a local crazy bastard like myself that enjoys drifting their 8 through the snow during the winter months :D

 

I live in Wisconsin and I to need to put my RX-8 away for the winter ! My question is there any thing special that you need to do to do this ?

 

pbuck1 Get the tires off the concrete floor, take the battery out and put it on a wood block off the floor, check for little animals (mice) and bugs that might want to live in the car for the winter (traps, and such defenses), get an oil change, fill up the tank. Or start it up now and then and move it out of the garage briefly and pull it back in during the winter. A hard thing to do but that's what I am doing to. Just start it up now and then and pull it out of the garage too to just keep things moving a tiny bit. In CO its gravel and ice melt that's thrown on the streets and it messes up a new car pretty quick.

 

That sucks... I'm about to order snow tires. That's when the REAL fun begins!!! :D

 

I love & hate living in CA.

 

Yep! :D

 

I don't want to drive her in the snow... that's why I have my 4x4 beater truck for...

Basically, I covered the exhaust tips with tennis *****, put mothballs inside the car and trunk, threw in a few silicon "baggies", the kind you find in clothing to absorb moisture, filled tank with 93 octane, filled tires to 42 psi (expecting loss of pressure in a few months) removed the battery, waxed the car twice plus vaccumed and detailed it... what else... oh yeah, covered the tires and covered the car.... made sure all opening were covered to...


she'll be okay... just kind of sux but I don't want to chance driving it in the snow... plus, I don't want to get any mud/sand/salt uderneath... I've actually never driven the car in the rain either, so yeah, sh'e spoiled...

 

Xystas: You have my sympathy, but it could be worse. My brother (who lives in Denver) ordered a Mercedes CLK 500 Cabriolet in late July. He ordered it to spec so they had to make it. They told him it should roll off the line in Germany in late August/early September and he should have it by late-September at the latest. It's almost November and he's clueless as to when the thing will arrive. The liars at the dealership are so bad, he's quit communicating with them. He's resigned to the fact that he'll have a spanking new convertible delivered in mid-winter which he'll park till April or May....

 

Xystas,

If you want to be 100%...change the oil before the winter, and after the winter...or run syn. Car's which aren't run for a good chunk of time tend to pick up moisture in their fluids...which includes the engine oil.

On a side note, if it turns out to be a nice day during the winter, you could always take her out to make sure everything gets up to operating temp, and that moisture is flushed out.