How many of you do this ?

[livi]

....sitting in your sleeping beauty in the garage at night. Longing for spring...hating winter, darkness, cold, salt...



Fully serviced with a newly installed SW chip....and this is where she is caged in. Who ever invented winter should be flogged.

[Zef]

I do this...every night...!!!

[stevepaa]

looks just like mine, but I get to drive mine everyday

[svandamme]

screw it Livi , just learn to drive the 911 on snow , it's a total blast !

put on skinny tires and get it over with

your 911 is from the same year as my 944
and i guarantee that my 944 sleeps outside
and it will be flogged through rain , snow , hail, anything mother nature throws at it ! no rust...

unlike my former pre galvanizing longhood pretty targa lemmon rustbucket...

[Rikao4]

So somewhere in Sweden there is a 30 something guy making
engine noise, followed by shifting noise...oops brake squeal, you just missed that SNOWMAN, return to idle.
Sunny in Texas
Rika

[svandamme]

livi , i can get you porsche unleashed ... it has porsches in it , all you got to get is a joystick/steering wheel for you computer...

no 3.2 carreara, but longhoods and 996'es a plenty.... and 944's , 550's , 935's , gt1's , 356's ...

it is good fun and it runs on all current pc's , just ping me on my usual adress

[livi]

Originally posted by Rikao4
So somewhere in Sweden there is a 30 something guy making
engine noise, followed by shifting noise...oops brake squeal, you just missed that SNOWMAN, return to idle.
Sunny in Texas
Rika

Pretty much. Except he is 40 something (to add !"#Ī to injury)
Oh, and thanks for the weather report!!

Stijn, thanks but that sounds a bit like wanking..as it were.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by livi


Stijn, thanks but that sounds a bit like wanking..as it were.

nah , more like dry humping

Actually , porsche unleashed is good fun really
the Autobahn track with a the GT1
or the black forrest track with the 996TT + upgrades

[fastpat]

Originally posted by livi
....sitting in your sleeping beauty in the garage at night. Longing for spring...hating winter, darkness, cold, salt...



Fully serviced with a newly installed SW chip....and this is where she is caged in. Who ever invented winter should be flogged.

Not me. Sunny today, 70F/22C, had my Carrera out today for about an hour's exercise period.

I'll send you a PM so you can locate me on google.earth. Lot's of good roads around here to drive on.

[Rick V]

Ok Pat and just how is Markus going to get his car from Sweden to SC?
Too much Phantom this evening?
Just got back from an end of year funrun in the eastern pan handle of W.Va. 65deg, much sun, lost of twisties..........Sorry Markus, I live in a moderate climate.

[Rick V]

Sorry Pat I forgot the smiley face.

[sand_man]

That's pretty close to what mine looks like...right before I start it to drive it - EVERY DAY!

[fastpat]

Originally posted by Rick V
Ok Pat and just how is Markus going to get his car from Sweden to SC?
Too much Phantom this evening?
Just got back from an end of year funrun in the eastern pan handle of W.Va. 65deg, much sun, lost of twisties..........Sorry Markus, I live in a moderate climate.

I heard the North Atlantic was going to freeze over this year. No?
Moderate? Hmmmm.

I will say this, though. When I was a very young man, maybe 12-13 or so, I went to this new car dealership and did the sitting in them, moving the gear shift around, pretending to be driving at Le Mans. The cars? I thought you'd never ask. Brand new Austin Healey 100-6's (the 3000 wasn't out yet), new Triumph TR3's, Sprite's, and one very unusual car with a Prancing Stallion on the steering wheel. A Ferrari racing car, the only one the company ever made with a four cylinder engine in it. Ah, those were the days. Yeah, baby, this is my Ferrari.

[Joeaksa]

Livi,

I bought a spare set of BBS wheels (the cast cheap ones) and put snow tires on my car. Drove it all winter long when living in Germany a while back.

That said, come to Arizona and experience winter as it should be. 15-20 degrees (celcius) sunny and simply wonderful!

Joe

[Evans, Marv]

I have to say this has never crossed my mind. Of course I live in So Cal.

[HardDrive]

I drive me 911 about once a week during the winter. Seattle rain......targa......yes, I arrive at work with my left knee slightly damp.

[alf]

Drive it, you must.

[livi]

The only reason I donīt drive her is for fear of the dreaded tin worm. Here in the south of Sweden we have a relatively mild climate most of the winter season and the snowy period is usually rather short. The problem is black ice. People donīt seem to respect the obvious risk of sliding off the road. They keep driving as fast as in summer. This makes the authorities pull out the salt trucks.

And as I understand it:

salt + water + exposed metal parts =

[svandamme]

Originally posted by livi
The only reason I donīt drive her is for fear of the dreaded tin worm. Here in the south of Sweden we have a relatively mild climate most of the winter season and the snowy period is usually rather short. The problem is black ice. People donīt seem to respect the obvious risk of sliding off the road. They keep driving as fast as in summer. This makes the authorities pull out the salt trucks.

And as I understand it:

salt + water + exposed metal parts =

to a certain extent yes, that's correct
but your's has been galvanized, so it is protected a lot better then say a 2.4 or 2.7

i would look at it this way , porsches that sit still for 5-6 months aren't much better off then those who do get out occasionally for a weekend run.

standing still hurts every mechanical bit of your car, bearings, tires, engine seals, brake fluid, oil , fuel goes to crap

i mean , every part of that car, that isn't just sheetmetal, benefits from the occasional run...

if the salt worries you , simply rince the bugger with regular water in your garage, especially the wheel wells...the sills
and park it really hot, in a warm garage...

you'll feel more relaxed, your car will probably benefit from this as well....and it'll be in peak condition when spring comes around

could be once a month, and that would make the salt exposure the equivalent of what my 944 sees on a yearly basis, as it sleeps outside, and definately get's ridden in snow (we don't get it often, so i have to rise to the occasion ) and i've yet to find a single bit of structural rust on mine, just some where the stones chipped my paint on my headlight covers... and that's not salt related at all

[livi]

Right you are, Stijn.

It is CATCH 22. Saving one part ruins the other.

On one hand I should just drive her regularly. The corrosion will not explode.

On the other hand, many claim that engine parts can always be replaced but when the rust finally get a firm grip, the road to oblivion has inevitably begun.

On the "third hand", it is after all just a car. Nothing really important in life. I should just enjoy it while it lasts.