Winter Usage/Storage

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You don't have to drive it and you don't have to do much prep work for winter storage. Draining the fluids, removing the battery, etc. is for long term storage 3 months or more without so much as touching the car, you could go 6 months doing nothing to it. Take a look some of the cars sitting on dealers lots for six months. You're talking about not driving it for maybe 2 months at most. You'll get a good day in December and at least one if not more in March.

Last winter mine sat for 6 weeks without turning the ignitiion over. I simply put a Porsche battery maintainer on it, had a full tank of gas in it,"decassant" bags or whatever they're called on the floor of the cabin and trunks, parked it on some old carpet pieces, inflated the tires to 50#s and put a cover on it. Other than cleaning it thoroughly inside and out that was it. The only thing that took any time was inflating the tires.

Like you I only bought mine to drive when I can put the top down. I've yet to drive it in the rain and don't drive it in the winter because it's just to cold and I don't want road salt on it. Of all the things you need to do to store it in a garage the battery maintainer is at the top of the list. Carpet squares and high inflation ward off flat spots but heck you may not get those for 6 weeks either.