pinkcivicchick

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I have been talking to a few of my friends, and some say I should put it on blocks, to let me coilovers have a break, and take out the battery. Is there anything else I should do?

bbarbulo

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http://www.torontocivics.com/tccforums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36683

imported_gatherer

throw a car cover on it and walk away..... (thats what I did last year) worked great

Brett

If you put it on blocks wouldn't that stretch the coilovers out cuz the wheels wouldn't be on the ground? Its just a thought a had after reading about giving the coilovers a break...

Chigga1

DO NOT throw ur suspension off the ground.....

u put blocks under your car..... u better do te same for ur suspension.... ur suspension is there to keep the weight of the car on it, you throw the car on blocks.. be prepared to be paying for some damages occuring from sitting all hanging down.

i have buddies who are lowriders... and they know way too much... so i would not recoomend it.....

i wouldnt even throw a cover on it.... as long as the car sits and not in contact with SALT u r fine.

p.s be prepared to start ur car every now and again!

bbarbulo

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luckily we don't drive lowriders

YES, put your car up on jack stands

and NO, do not start your car "every now and again"

cover depends on what the conditions are like where you're storing your car.

imported_viper_2_4

ya, starting is the hardest part on your engine.........

Chigga1

arent u supoosed to warm ur car up>???

get the oils flowing???
why jack your car up???? and let ur suspension hang??

DO IT UP!

Gunmetalef

park it on wood... take the battery out.. dunt put it on the cement.. and leave it be

scarlemthug

i believe ur suppose to supper the car via the control arms arent you?

imported_gatherer

I hear everyone saying put it up on wood or whatever and take the wheels off .... but can someone actually tell me a good reason to do this?

cee_mon

I have done both.....jack stands and next year on ****ty tires...
After the winter of jack stands the suspension needed about 1 week to go back down to normal stance.
Stored on ****ty tires worked better for me, easier to do also.

shlammed

^^^sounds good to me too...keep a piece of crap $5 set of tires around for winter storage

Brett

^^ i think modern tires are constructed so that no flat spots will appear after being stored for only a few months. Just leave your nornal tires on there. My car has sat on its tires for months and months at a time with no problems for the tires.

Gunmetalef

its like a cushion for the tires so you dunt get a flat spot in them from the hard cold concrete.... carpet would work too cut out some peices..

bbarbulo

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Home Depot has these closed cell foam pads used for laundry areas and whatnot... slipping those under the tires would be IDEAL!!

Now as to why you wanna jack the car up and leave it like that, is cuz it's says so in your owners manual. And if Honda says it, it's true regardless of what your lowrider buddies tell you. I could explain to you the bushings, the shock pistons, yada yada yada, but at the end of it all I'd still get one idiot asking "why? this why that". I'm not gonna waste my time... the short + sweet answer is... cuz Honda says so.

Jason, if you MUST know the answer, you can PM me.

scarlemthug... did honda put jacking points on the control arms? didn't think so

Buddah

hahahahah...well done bbarlulo!

Use four jack stands and let the car sit on em...drain the oil...drain the coolant...and syphon the gas out of the tank and the fuel pump. Then just let her sit there. She'll be fine. I do the same every winter to the RX7 and the Supra. A civic is no different.

Cheers,
Buddah.

imported_kIeRaN

how come some people are saying take the gas out and others are saying fill it up, i am confused as to what i should do with mine over the winter my car has no motor in it at the moment too if that helps at all

imported_gatherer

gas goes bad after a period of time it actually has a expiry to it...

anyways thanks Bruno for the answers

bbarbulo

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you can go either way... me, I like to fill up and add gas stabilizer from STP. But then in the spring, I run the car on the highway till the tank is empty, then I fill up and put in injector cleaner or Seafoam.

Tank empty - water vapour can get trapped, and varnish will build up from the remaining gas. Tank full, gas needs stabilizer in it to stay good... but a full tank displaces all the water vapour that would possibly form... so it's a toss up. However, with a high end car like a Supra or RX7, I'm not sure how comfortable I would be with anything other than pure high octane in the tank... so that could be why Buddah does what he does. Key thing is... don't leave a partially filled tank. That's the worst.

As for oil and coolant... I like to leave both in there so that seals don't dry up, I just flush and fill both before and after the storage period. However, I'm certain Buddah has his reasons for doing this things his way, I'm just less wise than Buddah