Garaging for the winter

[Anton]

Drive it through the winter - mine is my only car and I've done it through two winters - was surprised how well the 115hp 1600K behaved in slippery conditions *thumbup*.

 

Should be interesting this year - it's now a 140hp 1800K which seems to lose it's back end with very little provocation 😳

 

Pat Neale - my wiper drive also broke this year - Redline made the same comment about the angle that you did.

 

 

 

LEO 3eggs

Another Slightly Vider SeVen

 

[Petrolhead]

Keep using it. Nowt like frosty sunny blats

 

NE7Club Web Site

R5 no 65 😬

I am after low level tyre rack and jerry can box for Mino

[Chris Eccles]

patneale,

 

I have had no major faults, apart from the following.

 

snapped clutch cable, managed to get home (always carry a spare now)

broken wing stay

 

and the o so common oil pressure sender, and brake light switch

 

 

 

 

 

Ho Hum

[patneale]

Chris,

A little tip on the brake light switch

I had the switch fail on both my old car and the new one

I was not so surprised on the new one as I have fitted a high level set of brake lights under the roll bar.

I figured that I might be overloading the switch.

I have put in a head light relay along side the brake pedal under the black cover and the old switch suitably cleaned up now works fine.

There is the added advantage of a slight "click" on applying and releasing the brakes so you know the switch is working !! Cost less than a £5er

 

Hugh (Patrick Neale) Robinson

 

 

[old captain slow]

A) Pump up the tyres hard or put it on axle stands to avoid flat spotting the rubber. Wheel it in and out every few weeks.

 

B) (Preferred option) On dry days take it out for a blat. Winter weather is fine provided you avoid the salty days. 😬

 

C7 CDW

[john aston]

Have had mine for 8 years.I pump up tyres, take battery out ,stick it in a carcoon and that is it.Always started first time in Spring,despite being kept in a damp garage.And if am a wimp for not driving it all year round I couldn't care less.I do manage to put more miles on it than many of the pampered cars I see.It's a personal thing.

[wild bill]

I drove all last winter whilst in the first flush of love, i took out shares in Waxoyl because i'd shoved so much in.

 

Over the summer i've used it a reasonable amount but whilst i store my 65 bus (i only take off battery squirt wd40 underneath and in plugs and leave handbrake off and in 14 years she starts first time , everytime after 7 months stored) i really am with the drive it lot, what's the point of storing it when there's all those fantastic winter days, salt? down here in the west about twice a year these days.

 

I'd use the bus more as well but it's just unpleasant in winter as it has no heating and it's too fragile

[Golf Juliet Tango]

John Aston: no it's not a macho thing (taking the car out in the winter) it's just choice. Putting it away or fettling it or driving it: all perfectly good options.