To Start or not To Start while in Winter Storage?

[Tomikaze]

Gotta jump in on this one. Stored my last two Boxsters for the winter over the past 3 years. When you DON"T start the car once a week and let it run for 15 - 20 minutes you go to start her up for the first time in the Spring and and get all sorts of smoke and the motor makes a god awful racket. Takes a few days of driving for the motor to completely quiet down. I don't think a rapping motor is in any way good for it. Start her up once a week and no nasty sounds or smoke. I'm going to keep starting her up unless someone can prove to me the it's bad for the motor.