Is it bad to store my weekend car outside for the winter with a good car cover and under a port?

>Live in an area with snowy winters.
>Live in place with non-snowy winters.

Pick one. Not everyone gets snow during the winter.

>ancient nipp car
>not expecting rust

How naive

You're implying that a car cover and a carport will keep 100% of snow from touching the car and keep the area surrounding the car in a perpetual state of summer.

>anywhere the snow touches instantly turns to rust
What are they chemtrailing with salt in the winter, or are you parking it on the side of the road so it gets a daily pelting of salty slush from the plow truck?

If you can avoid it, I wouldn't leave it outside

>as long as salt doesn't touch my car it won't rust

Aren't there places near you that you can pay to store your car for the winter? I don't imagine it would cost too much more than you'd spend on a car port

>What are they chemtrailing with salt in the winter

That's what it feels like here in Canada. Even if you park away from roads there's a constant salt mist in the air. If you go to a new car lot and look underneath you'll find surface rust everywhere, rusted brake rotors.

Rotors are often just straight iron, so rust from moisture is understandable. Where in Canada? Getting a breeze from the sea?

Alberta. It's the temperature swings and magnesium chloride they use here. I've seen Mazda 3's here where you can reach through into the inside. It's a terrible situation.

>tfw you remember the Alberta Mazda 3 guy you were talking about rust with from weeks ago
It's weird how sometimes it seems like you're talking to the same 10-20 people all the time on any given board.

>Is it bad to store my weekend car outside for the winter with a good car cover and under a port?
The wind will blow microscopic salt spray for hundreds of feet. It doesn't take much salt to start the corrosion because salt is not used up but acts as a catalyst.

Just be glad you don't live in parts of southern california that have a lot of homeless. Areas that get polluted by fecal matter, urine, dumped food bacteria can become an incubator for disease microbes. The city then uses a bleach spray to wash the parking lots or sidewalks. And yes, the companies contracted by the city to do the bleach sprays will spray even when cars are parked. Bleach spray on cars sucks if your wax and sealant are not protecting the clear coat from oxidation by the chlorine. Yes, it's referred to as oxidation even without oxygen at least when I had chemistry long ago. But they've even discovered new elements since then, so the wording may have changed, so don't bite me on that wording.

Oh my god.
>when you really didn't know how bad it is

a fuck to you

>non-snowy winters
That's an oxymoron. It's not real winter.

Bleach is not good for car paint....

latimes.com/local/california/la-me-hepatitis-los-angeles-20170914-htmlstory.html

npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/13/550674476/san-diego-washing-streets-with-bleach-to-combat-hepatitis-a-outbreak

San Diego Washing Streets With Bleach To Combat Hepatitis A Outbreak

San Diego has started washing its downtown streets with bleach in an effort to combat an outbreak of hepatitis A that has killed at least 15 people and infected nearly 400. It is set to be repeated every two weeks, with weekly "spot maintenance," according to county guidelines.

The infectious disease has largely infected homeless people in the coastal California city, and part of the issue is an apparent shortage of public restrooms in areas where the population congregates.

Hepatitis A was first identified in the area in early March, according to the county, and declared a public health emergency this September.

A letter from San Diego County health officials stated that hepatitis A is being spread though contact with urine, fecally contaminated environments, or person-to-person transmission.

San Diego's homeless population has skyrocketed — the number of people living on downtown streets is up some 27 percent . Councilwoman Lorie Zapf recently told member station KPBS that she is concerned about the amount of waste in her area as a result of illegal encampments. "I went down there myself in July and what I saw with my own eyes was an insane amount of trash," Zapf said. "I saw human feces, meth cookers, syringes, stolen property — and all of this will flow right to the ocean if it is not cleaned up, and it will spread hepatitis A virus."

Oxidation is the loss of electrons

Homeless interment camps when?

The nice parts of California are so nice it just really tears me apart how unbelievably bad the bad parts are.

(also they still taught redox in high school chem in my day and age, but I guess probably these days they have the students draw a picture depicting their feelings about molecular reactions and write a story about how neutrons deserve reparations for proton privilege)

It'll be just fine. It's just a car, not some fragile being.

I store my weekend car outside.

Car port and car cover, You are good.

Just make sure you are not putting your car cover on a dirty car, Driving it once counts as a dirty car.

Sure thing kid

When you graduate high school and get a big boy job, do come back and tell us how much it costs to own/insure two cars

Depending on what cars they are, it's not that bad. I kept two cars on the road for a while just out of college, and it was PIMP to be able to work on one and drive the other or lend them out to trustworthy poorfag friends, teach them to drive stick, etc.

>driving
>storing a car
Pick one

Reading comprehension.

>run the engine for a while once a month

That's a misconception

just buy a tarp garage if its worth a shit

youtube.com/watch?v=Pe1An7L1Wfg

>Is it bad to store my weekend car outside for the winter
>just buy a tarp garage if its worth a shit
As one other person has recommended, get a tarp garage. It's made of the same material as those overhead tarp garages with the open sides, but now all four sides have a tarp that goes down to ground level. That keeps out most water spray and salt of course. It has enough openings to allow for ventilation so that moisture doesn't build up and rot the car.

Remember that any non-moving object with crannies is subject to rat infestation. They climb up and nest under the hood. Just two days ago, I was shopping at a plaza mall and the Kia dealership (1.75 city blocks in size) had a nice BIG rat climb up under one of their new cars as it lived there out of the rain and away from any predators that can't get into those small spaces. So you should go and inspect the car periodically to make sure there is no nesting under the hood.

They make colored tarp garages and there is even one with camouflage designs all around it. I've seen them in use various places in the city including in a driveway and in backyards.

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TLDR:
When I bought my new car, I inspected under the hood thoroughly before driving it off the lot. No rat or mouse droppings was a good sign.

is that your garage

No, it is one of the reposted pictures from a previous Veeky Forums thread about garage designs and what people do to make garages more efficient or more like a man cave. My two car garage is converted into a one car since I have a lot of gorilla rack metal shelving on one side of the garage. The various steel shelving is connected to each other so it is very sturdy and cannot tip or move. You can find that kind of shelving at warehouse shopping clubs such as Sam's Club and Costco.

Since u want to be a poor fag. I'll tell u how much it cost. I have 4 vehicles. 2 are completely paid off. One I'm paying on which is just a bit under $1,200 per month and I have a lease that is just a tad under $800 a month. Then I pay about $4,200 every 6 months on insurance. So quit being a lazy faggot and go make something of yourself.

I thought Kalifornians only bleached their assholes, guess I was wrong.

(((California)))

>I thought only Kalifornians bleached their assholes
Porn stars do that as well as those special shops that do pubic and ass hair electrolysis.

Pressure washing bleach onto all those cars during those late summer and early fall warm sunny days must be a dream for the body shops. Time for new business to show up. I remember watching this year as some homeless person walked by while pissing. Just the tip of his penis peeking out from under the jacket as it sprayed on everything as he walked by it.

The problem with the parking lots is they have cars. Homeless get in between the cars for privacy as they take a shit or piss. When done, they walk off. So that's why parking lots get sprayed with bleach to neutralize the filth. The bleach dries off but leaves that residue that keeps on sterilizing new poop and urine.

I hate slightly rainy days. A long hard rain washes the urine and poop away. But a mild rain means the water puddles up in the parking lot and the puddles are filled with urine and poop residue that can be tracked inside the car.

Yeah. Unless you have that car cover air tight, it's just going to hold moisture in. The best thing you can do is keep in the sun when it does shine and keep and eye on the problem areas
t. Owner of wet season rusted shitbox

where do you live?

don't think that matters cuz anyplace with lots of homeless will have piss and poop all over the place. i go downtown and sometimes see poop in front of small stores because their door is in a partial hallway. so the homeless can duck into the spot and poop piss without anyone seeing them from far down the street. you get used to seeing logs in the alleys too.

none of these cars will last even 50 years