[NYTMARE23]

Originally Posted by JT6Speed

I usually pack mine up around Thanksgiving.

So far we've had about a foot in December and it's been damn cold. Plenty of days we've struggled to reach freezing.

I always strive for the 2nd or 3rd week of March, so long as we've had some good rain to wash the roads off. I can't imagine waiting until the end of May like Nytmare lol.

Not going to lie...waiting until May DOES suck...and I've been tempted to bring it out before then, but our city/county is NEVER in a hurry to get all the sand and rocks swept off the streets. So historically speaking it takes them until about Mid May to FINALLY get the roads cleaned.

[bishopts]

Originally Posted by NYTMARE23

Not going to lie...waiting until May DOES suck...and I've been tempted to bring it out before then, but our city/county is NEVER in a hurry to get all the sand and rocks swept off the streets. So historically speaking it takes them until about Mid May to FINALLY get the roads cleaned.

I saw this today on my phone, i was like are they messing with me?

[NYTMARE23]

Originally Posted by bishopts

I saw this today on my phone, i was like are they messing with me?

[speedyink1]

It's not terrible in this part of Canada this year (switched it to F for y'all). It rarely gets to the point where they put dirt on the roads. Just some brine mixture to address ice concerns on certain days. Thankfully by later March/April I'm happy with the amount of rain washing the roads to drive the Camaro again. I'm luckier then some, but damn that Texas weather looks nice right about now

[Midlife ZL1]

Here in South Dakota it's been in the 40's and a couple days near 50 that if it wasn't for my fuel pump needing to be changed I might have been tempted to take the cover off.

[2023-SS]

battery charging anecdote.
our 4th gen was a Garage Queen/show car that we rarely drove. (60k miles in 20 years)

the 4th Gen cigarette lighter was constant hot, regardless of Key.

we had a battery tender on the battery terminals, and the wife did not like messing under the hood.

so I put a cigarette lighter adapter on the "quick disconnect" of the battery tender, and we put the battery tender in the cigarette lighter of the center console.

the wife has much happier, and it WAS easier to break it out for a quick ice cream trip or romantic dinner, and you did not have to worry about the leads dangling and touching each other.

however, the CD changer went bad, the radio went bad, the ECM got corrupted, and the car would barely run.

It took several hours on the dyno to figure out the ECM (if they reflashed the ECM, it would crank & run normally ONCE, then never again...until they reflashed the ECM) and a few days to get a new ECM on site.

so we put a NEW battery tender back on the battery terminals, and never had another problem.

so IDK if the one battery tender was bad (we had a HARLEY tender that would destroy batteries, but it was never on the car). Or if the digital spikes of the tender destroyed the electronics. Assumption would be the battery acts as a capacitor, and absorbs the spikes, so the electronics in the car do not see the spikes.

IDK/YMMV, just another $1000 wasted on a car.....

[2023-SS]

and our tires always flat spotted, and it was like 10 minutes of driving per month of sitting before they warmed up & became round again.