Z storage and maintenance during Winter

MacCool

"A few hours from the Sierras". That's not snowmobiling, that's a snowmobile trip. I can drive "a few hours" and be sunning myself on a beach somewhere. Snowmobiling is where you ride your machine out of the garage and catch the trail that runs 2 miles from your house. From there your choices are some nice little trailside bar for lunch 50 miles up the trail, or maybe riding up toward the Canadian border for a few days, depending on how you've packed for the trip.

Here in Minnesota, we go visit "rain (hopefully) and temps dipping around 25F" by choice. Frankly, I'd rather have 10 degrees and 3 feet of snow than rain and 25 degree temps.

Skyscraper

"A few hours", that's not "sunning yourself on a beach somewhere", that's a "sunning yourself on a beach somewhere trip."

Silly Rabbit

Anyone ever come up with a convenient place to mount a powerlet connection for keeping the battery on a tender. I use them on my bikes and it makes it so simple. I was thinking about mounting one in the grill area, maybe in the tow hook cover.

MacCool

Battery Tenders come with both terminal clamps, or a fused two-pin connector that can be permanently mounted to your battery. Then all you have to do is plug it in.

SouthArk370Z

For no more current than we're talking about with a battery tender, you can mount the connector anywhere in/on the car and run 18-14 ga zip cord to the battery. Use appropriate fuses/breakers. The spare tire area comes to mind. Or the glove box. If you don't use the socket below the glove box, wire it to the battery (there is a B+ at the radio that should work).

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kenchan

i could, but since i check vitals on a weekly basis in the summer, i just use the umbilical cord on the battery and keep the hood down but unlatched... in winter i just place my car cover over that with a towel between the cord and bumper to prevent scratches and any outgassing stains on the finish. i take the cover off partially every 6-7wks to turn the tires by hand.