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

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.

I used to live in a condo for a few years, so car always parked in underground garage, and I don't feel like I experienced the increased rust.

The theory makes sense, but I am not sure how much difference it really makes.
 
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.
Winter because it takes a lot of work to get all the snow and/or ice off in the morning. I don't even get frost on it in the garage and it's not heated or insulated, just protected from the elements.

I clean the snow and ice off my wife's Hyundai which is much less work than my truck and uses less fuel to idle warming up.
 
I've always parked the daily drivers outside because I have two "nice" cars parked in the garage.

I have a lot of trees - too many in fact - so it is rare the cars get sunshine during the day. The downside to that is all the mess that trees make. Pollen, leaves, seeds, etc. Trees are filthy.

Five days a week, though, I am parked in the lot at work, in blinding sunshine.
 
Cars don't really care about low temps unless the oil has the wrong viscosity or if the coolant freezes. Car manufacturers test their cars in all kinds of climates from the desert to the north pole. I'd refer to keep the sun off my car. Luckily, my car sits 3 levels below ground level and the temps vary between 40*F and 75*F, and no sun!
 
Winter 100%. I'm fortunate that both of mine are garaged, and it's nice in the summer being able to leave the top off my Wrangler so I don't have to switch back and forth and can just leave it in the garage on rainy days. With that said I hate when vehicles or equipment have to sit outside in the winter. Here that usually means no matter what you try to do mice and other rodents will find their way in.

I live in a rural area, but have mouse traps in both my sheds and my garage. I usually get at least 1 or 2 mice per day, and it's been that way since living here for a few years now.
 
We don't really have winter where I live, but we do have hot and rainy summers, so I pick summer. My primary concern is sun damage, so the cars are in the garage as often as possible and parked in shaded spots when possible if not at home.
 
Summer for sure. Anyone who can park their car in any type of shade is lucky 10 months out of the year. The sun just bakes our vehicles otherwise.

Our winter lasts about 2 days.
 
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.
If it’s your daily driver then it will always be outside during the day so no advantage in the garage during the summer. Winter certainly makes the most sense.
 
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