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Long term car storage

  • 26-09-2011 8:45am
    #1
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭


    I’m heading off to New Zealand for at least a year this weekend. I’m also still not too old to hit Oz for a year or two while I’m at it, if I should so choose! I’ve decided to keep my ’02 323F 2.0 Sport.

    There are various reasons for this, but mainly because I don’t know if I’ll be back before Christmas with my tail between my legs. I have also done so much work to the car, I’d want to be certain I’m not coming back before I could justify selling it. However, it needs to be stored and the NCT is up in January. If I had any chance of getting a reasonable sum for it, should I choose to sell it, I’d have to have someone NCT it again while I'm away.

    How should I store it? At the moment, I have access to a safe, dry lockup where it can stay on a trickle charge and my Dad can give it a start every so often. However, I don’t know how much longer we’ll have access to the shed. I could leave it under a cover in my parents’ drive and take the battery out but I doubt another harsh winter will do it any good?

    Any other options or considerations?


Comments

  • #2
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    • Cars depreciate worse than inflation would eat into the cash from a sale.
    • If you do try to sell it later, you'll have a nice big gap of no tax / insurance to explain all the time
    • You can spend money on beer in New Zealand
    • Get another car when / if you return


  • #3
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Remove all the coolant if you are leaving it lying up for a very long period over the winter.


  • #4
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,465 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    Our man in Havana wrote: »
    Remove all the coolant if you are leaving it lying up for a very long period over the winter.

    Really? I would have thought the opposite. What's the reasoning?
    MarkR wrote: »
    [*]Cars depreciate worse than inflation would eat into the cash from a sale
    [*]Get another car when / if you return

    The way bigger petrol engined cars have gone, it's a €1,500 car that I spent about €1,800 to buy last year and the same again for maintenance, repairs and improvements. I'd be foolish to sell it because the €1,500 car that would replace it on my return would be a wreck compared to the car I sold.

    In other words, I'm the only one foolish enough to put that kind of money into an old car, I'd be better off leaving it rot than give it to some ungrateful twat who'll moan about the tax and fuel costs and make a stoopid offer.
    MarkR wrote: »
    [*]If you do try to sell it later, you'll have a nice big gap of no tax / insurance to explain all the time

    I shouldn't think that would matter on a 10 year old car. I bought it from the father of a girl under exactly these circumstances.
    MarkR wrote: »
    [*]You can spend money on beer in New Zealand

    Don't drink :D


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