[Cello8619]

I am currently in my Freshman year at Fairfield University and I can't have my car here, so right now its in my grandparents garage. i was wondering since I unregistered the car, so I don't have to pay high insurance, (only fire/theft). i was wondering if I should do anything else to the car to prepare it for the storage. So far I put dry gas in the tank, put a car cover over the coupe, and had an oil change right before I left. Also, last weekend I went home and I started my car, it really wanted to stall out and idled at 400-500 rpms (really rough) for about 5 mins and then it idled ant the normal 800. Do you think anything could be wrong with my car since it had a hard time starting up. I will be going home for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring Break, what do you think I should be doing to the car when I go home for a visit. (remeber i can't drive it on the street since i don't have plates right now. Thanks in advance for all of your help.

 

[jhbhatia]

your tires are going to develop flat sports and hence you'll have bad ride feel when you do get it out of storage. When i stored my celica, i just removed the negative battery cable and connected that everytime i wanted to warm up the engine and let the fluids flow. Also since i had a m/t, i left it in neutral, and parking break DOWN (ie. not activated)..and left bricks behind and front of all my tires. (thats the advise i got from celica.net)