Long Term Storage
 

For those of you who don't know, I will be returning to school next month full time to get my MBA. I am fortunate enough to be able to keep the 911, but I won't 1) be able to keep it with me and 2) be able to afford service and insurance.

So the car is being parked in my parents garage and left there until I can afford to care for it. I realize that I will need to do a number of tune-up items and fix a bit when it is time for restart, but what should I do to ensure proper storage of the car? What fluids should be changed, etc?

I hate doing this, but the only other option is to sell it and I certainly don't want to do that.

Drain gas, run a cleaner through the EFI, change oil and filter, adjust valves put on jack stands (but not all weight off tyres), flush brakes lines, back the pads off a little, pull the floor mats out, pull the battery out :)

Edit: write it all down and put the paper in the glove box ;)

Why not have one of us keep of for you, drive it occasionally, keep the fluids up, etc. Any of us would make sure the car is happy and "drive it as it was built to be driven." I, personally, would do this for you without charge... ;)

Peter

Put fresh oil in the engine and some gas stabilizer in the tank. Keep the battery charged (with a tender). And, most importantly, have your mom or dad start it up once a month.

As long as you can get someone to run the engine to fully warmed up on a regular basis (once a month or so) you won't need to do anything special.

:shock: Not me! I was expecting him to offer it to me for a "good" price just to get rid of that lump :cool:

I could also care for it, an outside parking space here is $40 a month and I could exercise it when directed, ONLY when directed!

D

You'll want to put clean oil into the motor. Don't save the old oil cause you can't use it again later. I would put some moth balls and vinegar and ammonia in the car to keep away the animals and moths. Also I heard you should close the heater tubes so mice don't go inside of there.

Give the old oil to Jazz, don't close the heater tubes (leave the heater off) the heater boxes have a flapper valve that will actually keep the rats out. Turning the heater to on opens the flapper and they get in from the heat exchangers.

Ugh, only $40 a month. I'm going to be paying $180 a month to park the Saab... and that's only b/c I'm a resident of the building. It would be closer to $400 if I wasn't.

So which is the prefered method? I can do either.

This provided interesting info but I'm storing for longer than a season http://www.porschenet.com/winter.html