Haven't started my car since October and only been pushingit around once a month. :D

Harry has been reintroduced to the roads!!!! Good bye winter! Hello hot car...

:tup: nice, msbc!

they are calling for 10-15 cm of snow tonight....seriously?? This winter is neverending.

:shakes head:

really...I'm not taking mine out until May. When it's actually warm and most potholes are patched :wtf2:

I just disconnected battery positive terminal and cracked the window down just a little to help with expansion of the air due to heat..
Throw a cover on... and left for 4 months...

Now i want to start the car... my plan is to change oil.. but i've read somewhere that changing the spark plugs and putting some oil on top of piston would help with a rough start after 4 months of oil draining down.. i want to make sure that everything is rightly lubricated to avoid damaging the engine.

is pouring little oil throw the spark plus holes possible? or that can somehow have a negative impact?

Winter storage for me conceits with driving it into the garage for the weekend, I drive mine all week., no problems after 314,xxxkms.

Ok, fine the car I do store for winter I just keep on a trickle charger, check the oil in spring and fire it up.

Yes, it's possible - just pull the plugs and squirt some oil in the cylinders - but it shouldn't be necessary and you run the risk of fouling the plugs.

So, you've got 195,000 miles (approx. 314k km) on the 370z as a daily driver. I agree. It's a car.....drive it.

I might do just that.. I don't want to have any issues at least until i boost it. :nutswinger:

Yep, 300k in my profile pic, but thats a few weeks old now.

Mine is a year long DD. I can't understand why one stores their car. I mean, ther should be at least a few days each month when the roads are clean enough to take it for a drive???

Winters in Canada involve a lot of ice and snow. As great as the 370Z is, it's not an ice and snow car. Even here in S AR, there can be a few Winter days when it is best to leave a Z in the garage. And then there is the de-salting involved - a lot of work for a few hours of driving.

What if its your daily....?

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Put 5w-30 in it, and start it every other week for 10-15 min. At least long enough for the engine to get some temp in it.
I drive mine 365 and I think we have about the same weather.
The car is made for it.
It's not like you live in antartica.

Why bother trying to drive the Z in the snow when you have a second car with better ground clearance, and better suited wheels and tires.

Way overthinking. It's not necessary to go to all that trouble. Four months is nothing. "Oil draining down"? Nah. No such thing.

There is a lot of information on storing cars on the internet, it seems many people have been doing it for decades and have learned alot over time. Here's a checklist that took me all of 30sec to find.
http://www.rochestercorvetteclub.org...-checklist.pdf
Do as much or as little of what is listed.

INJECT OIL: This can be done for rare cars and for long term storage needs. If you really want to go to great lengths and are truly obsessed, take a lesson from motorcyclists: Remove the spark plugs and inject a little oil into the cylinders. Reinstall the spark plugs (or an old set of used plugs for storage) without torquing them completely, and crank the motor briefly with the plugs in and the positive lead to the distributor or the coil wire removed. (Don't let the engine fire.) This will coat the combustion chamber and cylinder walls with a protective layer of oil. Don't restart the car until spring. You will need to change the spark plugs back to your good ones or buy new ones in the spring because of the oil that fouled them with the protective layer.

i hibernated my z following my own protocol yesterday. :D

i need to keep a eye open on the rat poison.... i think a few pellets may have moved :icon08: ive not had a mouse problem that i know of. never know though

I have a dilemma concerning storing my car over the winter. My doctor has a bunch of classic sports cars and from November through April he takes the insurance off them. I'm thinking about doing the same thing, except I know there will be couple nice warmer days that I will be tempted to take the Z out. I could save a couple hundred bucks, but it will bother the hell out of me if we have a decent winter and I'm stuck driving my old Avalon. I'll leave the comprehensive on, but I know what will happen if I tempt fate and actually drive the Z.

Because I love it. Putting your Z in storage and driving a beat up car is like preserving your wife and screwing a crack addict whore because too much sex could cause the boobs to sag faster.

A couple of glue traps spread around will define the extent of the problem for you. Other option is the old peanut butter/tin can/5 gallon bucket.

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:eek: wellll. That is quite interesting.

And funny. :icon18:

I love driving my Z. I love its acceleration, its cornering, and its braking. Those, for me, are the things that make it fun to drive and are the reason I even have that car. When there's snow and/or ice on the ground...those enjoyable driving aspects just go away, leaving me with a low ground clearance, badly balanced (for winter driving), rear wheel drive car that becomes very cramped when you try to sit in it with a Minnesota-style winter coat, and whose interior isn't even as luxurious as my GMC 4x4.

I don't love my Z. I love driving my Z.

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I've been thinking of doing this as well. Not taking the insurance off completely, but at lowering limits.

I can understand your reasoning to some extent but storing it the entire winter? Maybe it's a pain getting in the car with a heavy coat on every day but not even now and then? There would be a few days when the roads are clear?

In any case, my point was directed more at folks in New York, Chicago and other places in the. Midwest where there are plenty of cold but clear days. There are a lot of Blizzaks being sold to Z owners because they love driving it, being seen it and feeling good in it. They do not put it in storage.

If it's not fun to drive it, why drive it? Why spend the money on Blizzaks and wheels just to slowly grind your way down the road waiting for the tires to break loose on the faintest patch of frosty highway?

Honestly, my 4x4 pickup is a lot more fun in the winter than my Z.

I don't have to put mine away because it isn't that bad for that long BUT...when it's cold, the tires have very poor grip so I definitely drive it less.

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This. And don't forget about all that salt they throw down on the roads.

Some folks loves ham hocks and some folks loves pork chops and some folks loves vegetable soup.

so when you guys put your Z in storage... do you ever check the tire pressure and re-pump if it drops?

I bet Kenchan does. :tup:

I do not.

Ham hocks in vegetable soup...:yum:

i just don't want to come back in spring to the tire with 0 pressure and it's been resting on it for so long... lol i'm OCD like that i guess...

atleast i'll know if there is a slow leak or not! but then again new tires in te spring soooooo F-IT! lol

No, not really. Most people here have two newer/nice cars. Why do you assume the second car is a beater? Is it because you don't have two cars? I see you're also in Missouri. I don't think you have really experienced a real winter. We get can get 5-7inches of lake effect snow in a matter of hours, I don't think you're going to enjoy driving your Z very much.

If your tires were not leaking when you were driving it, they probably won't leak in storage. Still a good idea to take a look at them periodically.

Yep