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Old 11-23-2005 | 05:12 PM
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It just started to snow now, I'm in Fairfax Virginia and this is my first year with snow. I really didn't want to drive it in snow because I ran into a guy who has a 05' enthusist that said he took it out one day with snow and did a 360 in the middle of a major highway. But I'm about 30 minutes away from my house at my sisters house and I'm pretty much stuck unless I leave pretty soon.
Old 11-23-2005 | 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by 350zlove
Just like the post says, who here has stored the z already and where are you located? Will you drive it on pristine winter days??????? or wait until the spring in April or so?
My Z is in the attic next to the christmas decorations.
Old 11-23-2005 | 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by tmounk
It just started to snow now, I'm in Fairfax Virginia and this is my first year with snow. I really didn't want to drive it in snow because I ran into a guy who has a 05' enthusist that said he took it out one day with snow and did a 360 in the middle of a major highway. But I'm about 30 minutes away from my house at my sisters house and I'm pretty much stuck unless I leave pretty soon.
If your doing winter driving...you gotta have snow tires, bro!
Old 11-23-2005 | 05:55 PM
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Old 11-23-2005 | 07:27 PM
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(Oh, and road salt cleans off -- as long as you get to it before it completely becomes rock again)

but......salt comes with sand, and those big chunks of salt and sand will destroy the front of your car.
It's called a clear bra -- and we've had very good luck with them up here where there's sand pretty much year-round.
Old 11-23-2005 | 07:29 PM
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Mine has been sleeping in my garage for 4 weeks now. Going to be sitting for 17 months, while I support and defend this great nation!
Old 11-24-2005 | 12:06 AM
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coming into summer here in New Zealand, so looking forward to plenty of top down kilometres !!!!!! bring it on
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Old 11-24-2005 | 12:14 AM
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Mine's in storage to - stored it back in my home state. I forgot what torque was until I've been having to drive around my rav4 a lot now ugh. Nov-March/May just depends on how long the winter season here will last till. Last year it was kinda long.
Old 11-24-2005 | 12:21 AM
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Had my Z through 2 winters already... one winter had snow which is when I found out that my Z drives very well in the snow... but only in reverse!!! Luckily no salt here in Seattle.
Old 11-24-2005 | 06:14 AM
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mine is in the garage extremly dirty =D
its snowing hard now in toronto, gotta find a chance to detail her and put her to sleep for good =/
Old 11-24-2005 | 07:01 AM
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Old 11-24-2005 | 11:03 AM
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BAck here in NJ, we only had a few flurrys. I have no garage but i have put on my car cover. Damn the snow!! It's time to use Ml truck! -=D
Old 11-24-2005 | 11:10 AM
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I just got done detailing the Z but just a little bit....but i think today is the day it stays in the garage it's gonna be really hard not to drive her.......
Old 11-24-2005 | 02:08 PM
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Old 11-24-2005 | 02:50 PM
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Old 11-24-2005 | 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bmxox
My z wont be stored this winter. It just wont be driven on snowy/icey days.
This says it all for me.
Old 11-24-2005 | 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by FlorendoCruz
BAck here in NJ, we only had a few flurrys. I have no garage but i have put on my car cover. Damn the snow!! It's time to use Ml truck! -=D
I live in DC and I park it on the street. I think that I will buy a cover for it. That should save me a lot of trouble on snow days.

Thanks for the idea.
Old 11-26-2005 | 01:43 PM
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A friend just brought up a subject that I really can't answer. She told me that someone told her to roll down the window a little bit so there can be air circulation when storing your car.

She is storing her car all winter and summer since she is moving to another city for work. Do I have to worry about air circulation when I am just winter storing the Z?

PS: When disconnecting the battery, you just have to disconnect the negative connection to break the loop, right? No need to disconnect both positive and negative, right?

Thanks.
Old 11-26-2005 | 06:21 PM
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Welp, I found out the hard why you might want to roll your window down just a notch.

I disconnected my battery, and then had to go back in the car again to put some arm&hammer and closed the door. Well, I forgot about that little feature where the window would go down a bit when closing the door. Well it didn't go down since there was no electricity. Thankfully I didn't slam the door but just let it go. So there was no damage to the window or the paint.

Anyhoo, I'm going to take a deep breath now.
Old 11-27-2005 | 05:04 PM
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My Z is sleeping as well. I drive it until the snow starts flying and the salt hits the ground. Then it's off the road until spring, which in Cleveland could be mid April. The plus side is it's an '04 with only 6K.


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