ManuelCarrillo3

If your Corvette is family to you, our winter storage expert, Bradley Brownell has nine steps to perfectly prep your baby for a long winter hibernation, and a successful spring awakening.

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JonMN

Little late here in MN, but great information. Like the bubble-boy!

Patman

This part of the article I feel is very bad advice! Why put a non recommended oil in the engine at all, even if it's just for the storage purposes? It makes zero sense, and even when you do change back to the proper oil afterwards, some of that inferior oil is still going to be mixed in with the good oil, especially with the oil filter not being changed. The best thing to do is store it with the proper warranty approved oil that is relatively fresh (under 3000 miles)

Here is another point of dispute in the article:

That has always been the rule of thumb in the past, but most recently a lot of experts are recommending to store C5, C6 and C7 Corvettes with around a 1/4 tank of gas so that the fuel level sensor doesn't get gummed up. Any of us who have owned one or more of the past three generations of Corvettes will know that fuel level sensors are problematic, so why take the risk of possibly causing them more harm?

Sure, saves your tires, but messes up the suspension! Totally bad advice here! The suspension should never be left dangling for long periods of time like this! It can cause all sorts of problems!

Why go to the trouble of removing it and hooking it up to the trickle charger? Better off just leaving it in the vehicle and connecting the trickle charger up to it that way. GM even feels this way, the optional battery protection package offers up a connection in the trunk to make things nice and easy.

Scruff Vette

A couple of old cotton sheets work well for me.

ersatz928

This is a bit much...I just change the oil & filter, hook a battery tender to it, and leave it till spring....never a flat spotted tire....or any other issues....done this to 2 Corvettes and 1 280ZX over the last 30 years....

86C4Z51

Back in the day of nylon belt tires, flat spots could be an issue on a cold day. But I can't recall in recent history when I've had any kind of issue with a radial tire.

We aren't storing these machines for years; just a few months. That's called "short term storage" in other kinds of maintenance programs.

After 13 years of Corvette ownership and 45 years of all sorts of machine ownership from cars to boats to tractors to airplanes to motorcycles, I agree with Pat and ersatz; that pretty much covers it. Doing more than that is succumbing to car storage myths.