Winter Storage

With October fast approaching a Scottish 911 owner thinks of (partial) hibernation - the car gets a few dry, salt free, winter drives per month.

I was planning to purchase a Carcoon buble to store the car in over the winter as like most garages in this country, condesation can still be a problem in the colder months.

I have just read an advert for a system called PermaBag. This is a zip up storage bag a bit like a Carcoon system but uses a rechargeable moisture absorbing cylinder. It is about 1/2 the price of a Carcoon.

Does anyone have any experience of this system as opposed to the Carcoon type system?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



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Alan Brown
86 Carrera 3.2

Well, the world probably thinks all we Taliban-targeted Americans have five-car garages. I've been a car guy for 50 years and have owned everything from Aston Martins on down (and up...) and have never had a garage. (I happen to think garages are ugly.) I have for the last 30-odd years lived in Upstate New York, where I have a perfectly good barn and a quarter-mile-long driveway and turnaround but no garage. In the barn right now is my daughter's modified twin-cam Neon--she's traveling in China--literally up on blocks. In the driveway are our hugely chipped A4 Avant, my wife's commuter RAV4 and my 3.4-liter twin-plug track car 911SC, under a car cover.

When winter approaches, I will drive the Porschie across the lawn and into the $800 tarpaulin CoverIt "garage" up in the woods at the fringe of our estate. The advice I've gotten from the people who produce these vinyl-tarpaulin wonders is to put a Spackle bucket of charcoal barbecue briquettes inside the car as a dessicant and another one or two in the "garage," outside the car. And to surround the car with mothballs as an anti-rodent measure. (Are ther rodents in Scotland, or only snakes? Sorry, that was Ireland, right?)

There was a time when cars were rustbuckets and paint was lacquer, but I've frankly found that these modern things weather the elements pretty well. As long as you remember that they're Just Cars, that is.

Stephan

I'd consider a fuel stabilizer and winterizing the engine

I put 60 pounds of sand in the front and put on my snow tires. That's how I winterize.

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Bill Krause
'79 911SC Euro
MY PELICAN GALLERY

You might want to check this out - similar question, I am doing the same thing !
The charcoal is a new one - good though, somebody told me about some timber planks to absorb the moisture placed around the car !

Keeping an eye on this one !!!



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D ! .... ('82 SC Targa)

My SC Page:
geocities.com/p911scuk