If you could only keep your car garaged during winter or during summer, what would you choose?

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IM TALKING ABOUT A DAILY DRIVER.

I think I would choose keeping it garaged during winter season, because it would make it easier to start the engine up every morning after sitting in the cold overnight.

At the end of the day, a daily driver spends the majority of its time parked overnight. Bearing this in mind, you have to take into account that the main enemy in summer is the sun and UV rays, and there is no such thing when the car is parked at night.


I have to make a choice since I can only use the garage 6 consecutive months, and I think keeping it garaged in winter time is the best choice.
 
It can get down to -30F here in the winter so I would absolutely choose winter indoor parking. Summer I'll just throw some sun shades in the windows.
 
Summer.
I often park the car outside in the winter if it is dirty and covered in salt. The garage is typically 50 degrees all winter and the warmth will make the salt more caustic. Once its clean again its back in the garage though.
 
JoelB said:
It can get down to -30F here in the winter so I would absolutely choose winter indoor parking. Summer I'll just throw some sun shades in the windows.
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OMG I live in the coldest spot of my country and the temperature only drops down to -5º during winter.

How do the people who don't have garage do in your place to crank their vehicles up every morning after sitting outside with this temperatures?
 
64bawagon said:
Summer.
I often park the car outside in the winter if it is dirty and covered in salt. The garage is typically 50 degrees all winter and the warmth will make the salt more caustic. Once its clean again its back in the garage though.
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Thorough Lanolin coating fixes this problem for you. No need to suffer to try and protect your vehicle.
 
Saikou said:
OMG I live in the coldest spot of my country and the temperature only drops down to -5º during winter.

How do the people who don't have garage do in your place to crank their vehicles up every morning after sitting outside with this temperatures?
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Battery condition is a big deal. You'd be surprised how tough vehicles can be though.
 
For years I didn't have a garage, and when I go into work, I don't park in a garage. But it sure is nice to have a garage... first day I drove home in a rain storm, pulled in, got out, and marveled at how wet it was outside--but I didn't have to make a mad dash to get out of the rain... boy did I feel like I had arrived!

I'm conflicted. It is 100% awesome to not have to clean snow off the car, nor scrape the windows of frost, in the winter. And the car is that much warmer when I leave (not a heated garage but it gets residual heat and stays above freezing). BUT that extra heat in the garage means the cars rust faster. Six of one, half dozen of another.
 
I recently bought my first house ( lived in a condo with outdoor parking for too long ) with a double garage and don’t even use it, not even in the winter.
 
64bawagon said:
I have been in AL during the "winter" clearly a matter of perspective. I love AL in February and March
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February is my least favorite month here because everything is brown and muddy. Things improve very quickly in March, and our yards need mowing before April. :)

I've been to Michigan several times for work in Cadillac. Always flew into Traverse City airport and drove down to Cadillac. Never in winter, though. Y'all can keep that cold, snow, and road salt.
 
Garaged in winter. Rolling the windows down and AC works A LOT faster than the heater in 0-30* weather, especially with frost/ice/snow.
 
wavinwayne said:
February is my least favorite month here because everything is brown and muddy. Things improve very quickly in March, and our yards need mowing before April. :)

I've been to Michigan several times for work in Cadillac. Always flew into Traverse City airport and drove down to Cadillac. Never in winter, though. Y'all can keep that cold, snow, and road salt.
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Its okay for a while but it gets really old really fast after Christmas. Along with the fact that most road crews up here think road salt is a religion and the more they spread the better chance they have of going to heaven. LOL My folks used to live near West Branch and one of my favorite things to do was make that 2 1/2 hr drive up there after 8 inches of snow. No one but me and the 4WD on the road.
 
Summer. Protect it from hail/rain storms and the heat. Leave them outside in the winter if they are dirty. If I do pull in, I rinse it down with salt away first. still use fluid film everywhere, but anything you can do to stop rust is good!
 
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