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Draxxus 11-04-2009 07:43 PM

tomorrow Nov 5 its suppose to be +15 C omg thinking about bring her out for the weekend

Snakes709 11-04-2009 09:09 PM

Well it was never my intention to store my Z for the winter. But i leave friday for a 1 month field ex. and then i got pretty much all of December off and then off to the Olympics from Jan 14ish to March 26th. So my Z will be going in storage and holy ****...i called my insurence company...before i say what im paying for a premium please dont start all this bs about "omg you are getting raped" I'm 23 years old, 2 accidents, 2 speeding tickets (one ticket was 10 over the limit the other was 40 over) and of course i own the Z and only been driving for 2-3 years...so not a really good record.

Anyways im currently paying $5300 a year for full coverage. Talked to my insurence company to see if i could drop it down to PLPD...didnt want parking insurence because i might have to drive it during the X-MAS break we get. So after going through Bank of Nova Scotia to get there permission to drop the insurence it dropped from 5300 a year to 1300 a year....$4000 dropped...god damn!.

I was thinking about doing some mods but im just going to leave it. Doing some work to my ZX6R and might possibly get a turbo system fab'ed up.

FricFrac 11-04-2009 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Snakes709 (Post 267126)
Well it was never my intention to store my Z for the winter. But i leave friday for a 1 month field ex. and then i got pretty much all of December off and then off to the Olympics from Jan 14ish to March 26th. So my Z will be going in storage and holy ****...i called my insurence company...before i say what im paying for a premium please dont start all this bs about "omg you are getting raped" I'm 23 years old, 2 accidents, 2 speeding tickets (one ticket was 10 over the limit the other was 40 over) and of course i own the Z and only been driving for 2-3 years...so not a really good record.

Anyways im currently paying $5300 a year for full coverage. Talked to my insurence company to see if i could drop it down to PLPD...didnt want parking insurence because i might have to drive it during the X-MAS break we get. So after going through Bank of Nova Scotia to get there permission to drop the insurence it dropped from 5300 a year to 1300 a year....$4000 dropped...god damn!.

I was thinking about doing some mods but im just going to leave it. Doing some work to my ZX6R and might possibly get a turbo system fab'ed up.

Bring you Z out to Vancouver with you - you can pretty much drive year round out this way.... I guess getting over the Mountains may be a problem ;)

I just got my '72 240Z storage insurance from ICBC for six months - it in my garage so its going to be a whopping $30 for the six months :)

Snakes709 11-04-2009 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by FricFrac (Post 267244)
Bring you Z out to Vancouver with you - you can pretty much drive year round out this way.... I guess getting over the Mountains may be a problem ;)

I just got my '72 240Z storage insurance from ICBC for six months - it in my garage so its going to be a whopping $30 for the six months :)

i was hoping i would be right in downtown Vancouver but im going to be in Cyprus Bowl? with a Coyote. Going to be using the Surveilence gear to spy on people :P

6MT 11-05-2009 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Snakes709 (Post 267126)
Well it was never my intention to store my Z for the winter. But i leave friday for a 1 month field ex. and then i got pretty much all of December off and then off to the Olympics from Jan 14ish to March 26th. So my Z will be going in storage and holy ****...i called my insurence company...before i say what im paying for a premium please dont start all this bs about "omg you are getting raped" I'm 23 years old, 2 accidents, 2 speeding tickets (one ticket was 10 over the limit the other was 40 over) and of course i own the Z and only been driving for 2-3 years...so not a really good record.

Anyways im currently paying $5300 a year for full coverage. Talked to my insurence company to see if i could drop it down to PLPD...didnt want parking insurence because i might have to drive it during the X-MAS break we get. So after going through Bank of Nova Scotia to get there permission to drop the insurence it dropped from 5300 a year to 1300 a year....$4000 dropped...god damn!.

I was thinking about doing some mods but im just going to leave it. Doing some work to my ZX6R and might possibly get a turbo system fab'ed up.

Ouch, that hurts!! I've got mine out today (and had it out yesterday). Just lov'in the "bonus time"! :ughdance:

Snakes709 11-05-2009 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by 6MT (Post 267723)
Ouch, that hurts!! I've got mine out today (and had it out yesterday). Just lov'in the "bonus time"! :ughdance:

man i was so tempted to bring my ZX6R out today but i already ripped everything apart to prepair for the install of new front cowl, fairings, exhaust system, sprockets/chain, ignition modual, speedo healer and HID's. So it would have been to much of a pain to put everything back together just for 1 day (since i leave tomorrow for 1 month)

6MT 11-05-2009 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Snakes709 (Post 268603)
man i was so tempted to bring my ZX6R out today but i already ripped everything apart to prepair of installing new front cowl, fairings, exhaust system, sprockets/chain, ignition modual, speedo healer and HID's. So it would have been to much of a pain to put everything back together just for 1 day (since i leave tomorrow for 1 month)

Are you off to Wainwright?

Snakes709 11-05-2009 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 6MT (Post 268606)
Are you off to Wainwright?

will be in the morning, grabbing my rifle and then on the bus by 9:30am...be back on friday the 13th...i get saturday off and then head to Vernon B.C. on sunday until Nov 26th. Might order some parts for the bike when i get back on the 26th...lol.

lovethe370z 11-10-2009 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by 370Zsteve (Post 238718)
I suddenly pity my Canadian friends


I don't have any. South Park says they want our "internet money." :shakes head:

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Sylvan Lake V 11-13-2009 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by 6MT (Post 246997)
Maybe I'm missing something here. I have never, repeat never had to "move" a car or jack it off the wheels to store it for winter. Our winters are long in Canada and in 25 years of storing vehicles through the winter, I have never had "problems" or "issues" with tires or wheels after storage. I'm not sure where you guys are getting this from (?).... it's really the first time I've heard of anything like this. Is it that I've always stored them in a heated garage?

Confused...


I think it was bias ply tires that flat spotted. Modern cars have radials I have always parked all of my sports cars for winter and have never had an issue with flat spotting nor have I heard of any one else that parks the car for winter having flat spots. I put some fuel stabalizer in a full tank of gas and start the car and let it warm up for 10-15min every couple weeks and i have never had issues that related to storage.

6MT 11-14-2009 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Sylvan Lake V (Post 279154)
I think it was bias ply tires that flat spotted. Modern cars have radials I have always parked all of my sports cars for winter and have never had an issue with flat spotting nor have I heard of any one else that parks the car for winter having flat spots. I put some fuel stabalizer in a full tank of gas and start the car and let it warm up for 10-15min every couple weeks and i have never had issues that related to storage.

:iagree:

Draxxus 11-15-2009 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Sylvan Lake V (Post 279154)
I think it was bias ply tires that flat spotted. Modern cars have radials I have always parked all of my sports cars for winter and have never had an issue with flat spotting nor have I heard of any one else that parks the car for winter having flat spots. I put some fuel stabalizer in a full tank of gas and start the car and let it warm up for 10-15min every couple weeks and i have never had issues that related to storage.

Thats what I've herard from this guys that stores his summer toys all the time.

IDZRVIT 11-18-2009 06:53 AM

I'm still driving the Z a few times each week. The weather here in Halifax is holding up nice. Sunny and 10C today and a high of 12C predicted for tomorrow. When the weather does get ugly, and it no doubt will, the Z will only come out of the garage on dry days regardless of the temperature outside. Hey, that's what the heated seats were meant for right???

6MT 11-18-2009 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by IDZRVIT (Post 285309)
I'm still driving the Z a few times each week. The weather here in Halifax is holding up nice. Sunny and 10C today and a high of 12C predicted for tomorrow. When the weather does get ugly, and it no doubt will, the Z will only come out of the garage on dry days regardless of the temperature outside. Hey, that's what the heated seats were meant for right???

The weather here around the Edmonton area has been nothing short of amazing. Yesterday it was 18 degrees (c). Are ya kidding?! I'm still driving the Z until the snow sets in. When that happens, it'll be parked for the duration. (Usually early April is when we come out of winter for good.)

FricFrac 11-19-2009 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by IDZRVIT (Post 285309)
I'm still driving the Z a few times each week. The weather here in Halifax is holding up nice. Sunny and 10C today and a high of 12C predicted for tomorrow. When the weather does get ugly, and it no doubt will, the Z will only come out of the garage on dry days regardless of the temperature outside. Hey, that's what the heated seats were meant for right???

Dry days - lol I don't think I could swing that here on the Wet Coast. My 240Z is a fair weather only car but its all but irreplaceable. Besides the 370Z won't rust when it gets above .00001% humidity ;)

Ztoon 01-08-2010 12:25 AM

Frozen roads...cold tires.....slide here, slide there, slide slide, everyfrkinwhere!
Spring is sooo far away.

Snakes709 01-08-2010 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Ztoon (Post 356579)
Frozen roads...cold tires.....slide here, slide there, slide slide, everyfrkinwhere!
Spring is sooo far away.

I'm so happy when i come back from the Olympics, spring will be just around the corner.

On another note. Just passed 9000km on my Z and its going into the dealership for its first set of issues. My climate controls go crazy every once in a while. Seems like it does it when i go through a car wash, thinking its because its so cold outside then the temp inside makes the sensors go nuts. What happends is all the lights on the climate controls go out, it goes full blast heat/fan to the windshield. Cant change it, cant turn it off cant do anything. Happend 2 times so far.

Thats the first issue, second issue is the driver side front speaker is crackling so im going to get them to check everything out and replace it tomorrow.

j.arnaldo 01-08-2010 10:57 AM

The snaps continue! W-i-l-d blizzards, man! And, to think that I've NEVER seen snow...


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