Storing your Corvette for the Winter
Is my vette stock?? HAHA
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I have the hardtop on and the soft top down. I'm pulling the hard top off for minor work. I have a barn cat out in the garage and its heated so I'll just put a few traps here and there. If I isee signs of mice any where I'll throw some moth ***** in some small tin cans and leave them in and under the car.
I have 93 octane with sta-bil in the tank but I need to change the sender so I'll drain and clean everything before the fuel goes back in. If I put the soft up I'll bring the temp in the garage up and put the top up but not latch it to get it to stretch a bit. It needs a new top because the Bubba top on it is, well, you know, Bubba. So it isnt goingg to get worse, maybe a little dusty. It all lives under a car cover and I have a battery disconnect. I have a lot of work to do on almost every system so Im not concerned about starting it right now. In the years past I started it once every week or 2. If the battery got low I threw on the trickle charger.
I have 93 octane with sta-bil in the tank but I need to change the sender so I'll drain and clean everything before the fuel goes back in. If I put the soft up I'll bring the temp in the garage up and put the top up but not latch it to get it to stretch a bit. It needs a new top because the Bubba top on it is, well, you know, Bubba. So it isnt goingg to get worse, maybe a little dusty. It all lives under a car cover and I have a battery disconnect. I have a lot of work to do on almost every system so Im not concerned about starting it right now. In the years past I started it once every week or 2. If the battery got low I threw on the trickle charger.
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From: Madison Alabama
I got in the habit of the Bounce sheets and spring traps (that work real well) after an oddly busy mouse winter. I live near woods but never had a mouse problem before.
Turned out my wife had left bird/squirrel food bags unsealed in the garage and the mice came a running. After I’d cleaned up and caught a few in traps, we removed the food entirely from the area and the mice essentially vanished, so the best action vs mice is no food of any kind to attract them.
Turned out my wife had left bird/squirrel food bags unsealed in the garage and the mice came a running. After I’d cleaned up and caught a few in traps, we removed the food entirely from the area and the mice essentially vanished, so the best action vs mice is no food of any kind to attract them.
Fortunate that I don't really have to store the cars over the winter but I rotate them throughout the year from a large garage at our lake house to our home that only has a two car garage...a 70 mile trip (20 miles on nice back roads and 50 on the interstate) one-way gets me and the cars warmed up! Worse time of year for us is late Jan to Feb - March.
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I just stored mine in a garage that's sealed real well and what I did was, fill the tank and put a bottle of Stabil in tank,put an air freshener inside along with disconnecting the battery, put the cover on the car, glue traps around the car as well as putting steel wool into the exhaust tips to keep anything from trying to climb in and lastly inflated tires a bit more then normal and hope for the best lol
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Ronarndt you stated "Small ultrasonic plug-in pest repellers have been on the market for a couple years." Any particular kind or manufacturer??? Thanks Ike
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On the downside my car smells like peppermint schnapps, watch me get a field sobriety test the first time I get pulled over.
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I agree with all the great advice above. Two things I do that were not mentioned were; plug exhaust tips with rags to keep moisture out of opened valves on the engine, use the new Stabil Marine 360 as it prevents corrosion in the tank and lines.
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I live out in the country and have a 4 car outbuilding. When I purchased the home the outbuilding was infested with mice, rats, and squirrels that were causing extensive damage. I tired many things but the solution was 3 outdoor cats. The only rodent I see now within 200 feet of the building is a dead one.
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I'm in northern UK, it gets cold and damp and the car will soon be getting transferred to a basic concrete garage. I'm going to build a wooden frame/polythene car bubble with 12V fans connected to a solar panel system to keep the airflow moving. I've seen quite a few car bubble products that seem very expensive for what they are, so I'm going to make my own.I'll also apply wax or vaseline to all chrome parts and leave it on until spring, pump up the tyres a bit, brim the tank with super and add stabiliser, battery removed and kept on trickle charger in a warm, dry garage. Hopefully that should keep her sweet until playtime next year.
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Hi. I have a question, it applies to storage. Some one said as the last weapon against the mice a couple of traps on the floor. I always wondered with their keen since of smell will that encourage them to try harder to get into the interior or am I giving to much credit and smarts? Just wondering, take care.