[Shop-talk] Outdoor long term car storage

[nick brearley]

A friend of a friend here in the UK makes these:

https://www.carcoon.com/

Not sure I'd leave one exposed in the open for months/years but for 
indoor use hard to beat. Low energy input. Wish I'd bitten the bullet 
and bought one for my (ex) MX5, now gone to the great scrapyard in the 
sky with many years of mechanical life left but total body rot.

Nick Brearley


On 14/06/2021 12:35, Jim Franklin wrote:
>
>> People wrote:
>>   renting a storage space
> This is tops on the list, and I have an inquiry into the place where I planned on sticking the tools and guitars (climate controlled). A non climate-controlled vehicle spot is $340/mo, but if it's buffered enough from the direct atmosphere, like a garge-in-a-garage, it might work for everything, providing there's an open spot (Boston area space is hard to find especially during moving season). I'm already planning on spending $200/mo for the tools & guitars so $140 for a car is easy.
>
>> Shipping container?
> Their land isn't THAT big, but he might go for it :-)  However,  given my experience having a motorcycle completely oxidize in my parrents' tin shed onver one year, I want enough of a buffer that the parts can warm before the humidity comes in. A gigantic steel box seems like the exact opposite of that.
>
>> what are your tools and car worth to you?
> The $100,000 question. If I knew how long they'd be stored, the answer would be easier. The tools are half my dad's, so there's emotional value plus the quality. Striclty economically, if I lost everything, I could replace the stuff I actually use for $500 or so. I just gave away 6 (SIX!) claw hammers (and spotted another one the realtor shoved into teh BBQ cabinet. There's some excess and redundancy and maybe hoarding :-)
>
> The car is a low mileage wagon with a stick, last year with the 1.8. So it's a rare car I don't want to have to re-find, but I also really don't want to have to debug (literally and figuratively) after a winter in storage, so seling or loaning it out isn't off the table.
>
> jim
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