Are most of you keeping your cars garaged?
 

I am worried because I do not have a garage for mine.

This is no different from any other car in respect to keeping it in a garage. You might have to clean it more if you keep it outside.

Is a car cover worth the trouble?

No garage, no car cover...

I've got the RX-8 cover, and it is really nice. VERY easy to put on and take off, great StormShield fabric. Expensive, but worth it IMO. Tree sap really bugs me.

Out of the three new cars at my house, my RX-8 gets the garage. Well, it's the only one that will fit inside. LOL

'04 RX-8
'04 Dodge Ram 1500 Sigle Cab
'01 Toyota Tacoma Double Cab

Mines is in the garage. It's a small car, so it fits. Like most, my garage has a bunch of other "stuff" stored in there too. It's been raining a lot here, so it's nice to pull a nice clean car out to go driving. Oh, I don't drive it in the rain either, I've got other vehicles for those bad weather days.

Mine is in the garage. I don't have a garage door opener, and every day I get home from work, I have to go through the house and into the garage to open it manually. It's well worth the effort!

Mine stays outside. We also get pretty severe weather here in Spokane (last week we got almost a foot of snow and this week we are getting down to about -20f). Car started just fine and works great in cold and snow.

Oh yeah. Nuttin but the best for my 8!

Definately in the garage with the cover on. On rainy days I drive something else. I managed to fit all of our vehicles in our garage.

I don't have a garage but I do have it stored for the winter. I would consider getting a car cover because I've had bird droppings on top of my car. (you rarely see birds here, yet droppings appear out of no where!). Besides, it keeps your car in better condition, rather than out in the open and exposed to the elements.

Mine's in the garage .... for the winter :-(

If I didn't it would be a cube of ice right now. I haven't even driven mine in like a week, but it has been like -45 F here lately.

I didn't think twice about tossing an extra $50 a month at my apt. complex to rent a garage...It's dusty as anything here in Orlando, and NOBODY knows how to park...at least not in this complex (all college students). It's ridiculous...the complex re-sized the outdoor parking spaces and painted over the old lines black to match the asphalt. But still ppl are ALWAYS parking by the BLACK lines, not the WHITE parking space lines. So I'll look around and see anywhere from 5-10 cars parked halfway in someone else's spot just on my walk from the garage to my door alone. (sigh...) some ppl.

No garage, but I hope to have one in the next few months. So far, car isn't any worse for wear.

This may be getting too anal, but how about covered, and in a heated garage? :) hehehe

Pepper is in an attached garage, on carpet. Clashing carpet color, but, hey...

She bumped my MX-6 out of the garage. So far though, the MX-6 is taking it ok. What a trouper!

Sea Ray, how did you get a picture of my car? Sure wish MY garage was heated . . .

I live in a condo but I have covered parking and my stall is on the inside aisle, not perimeter, so it gets no sun, rain, or snow when parked. At work I have covered parking as well.

How open are you to adoption lol i want an rx-8 and a tundra double cab limited ed. can ya handle that LOL

honestly i had to choose Tundra or RX8 and that is a tough decision when living in VT. basically i am getting the RX because the tundra is around $37-$39k out the door and the RX will be $30-34 out the door.

plus i really want the 8 LOL

I love the RX8 and hate to have to leave it parked in the driveway but with only a two car garage and a 2002 Corvette Z06 and a 2003 Anniversary Edition Corvette, guess which two get the garage?

i will give you a new 8 for either one of the chevy's hehe

Here's a sad story. My cars have been garaged every single night for years. I only made one exception a couple months ago; I had to rent a larger car to take a bunch of kids to Disneyland. So I left my '8 in a lot near the San Diego airport. It stayed there overnight. That was the night the great San Diego fires began (the Cedar fire which destroyed 1600 homes in our county.) Winds blew the soot right towards downtown and my beautiful '8. When I picked it up the next day it was literally covered in ash; I couldn't recognize the car. I had a hanky-sized rag in the trunk to clear the windshield and drive home. This is not to diminish the suffering of those who lost their homes in the fires, but all I can say is... "Just my luck." The one and only time I've parked outdoors in like 10 years.

I keep mine garaged at home and work. I am lucky it worked out that way. I don't mind the elements, but knowing that it is tucked away from pranksters who like to deface or abuse others property is a relief for me.

My wife have a Jetta TDI 2002, her car was allways in the garage, until i told her when i get the 8 i think your car is going out......don't ever do this mistake..lol, i got my 8 saturday, and sunday we was in Home Depot buying a storage building for the junk in the garage so both cars will fitt in..., :) so since i was in Home Depot i got some conducts for the central heat and air, so i put a vent to the garage and some seals for the garage door, and perfect every time i just don't want to used it i just close the vent and done...every one happy....:)

Mines in the garage. Now that we had 6 in of snow and it is -20. It will be in there till it warms up. I will drive the Tundra in the snow and cold. It's been babied also, this is it's first winter and it's a 2000 the old Honda is gone.

I've always kept my cars in a garage or under a car cover (except in the rain). I'm not so much worried about paint oxidation these days... as long as you wax the car every quarter. But, my concern is with interior heat and eventual discoloration. One won't really notice it for the first 5 years or so. But, seeing that I keep my cars for over a decade, and they still look like the day they came home from the showroom... I'm convinced keeping the car out of the sun when not in motion is a good thing.

My 8 replaced my mom's Mercedes Benz's place in the garage. It's a two car garage but we have a pool table in there. Tough luck for my mom's car.

Garage all the way.

I wish I had a 2-car garage.... But, the MG gets the garage. New cars are built with MUCH better materials and paint than the older cars, so I know that it will be fine outside keeping my truck and wife's SUV company, and the old MGB gets the garage. The poor thing wouldn't last a year if it stayed outside.

A pool table takes a spot in your garage & your mom's Mercedes stays outside? Whoa! Your mom must really be one gracious lady!

Shoo, I'm almost thinking I should get rid of the dining room in my house (or 174.3 inches of it) and just build a ramp up to it from the alleyway to park the RX-8 in, I mean seriously, how often does a single guy use a dining room?

. . . and measuring it with a tape measure just now, apparently it would fit. Hmmmm . . . :)

You could always just throw a tablecloth over it. Now that would be dining in style! :)

Mine is garaged, though really keeping it outdoors would not require me to wash mine any more often. The rain doesn't bother the Zaino, but driving in the rain makes the car filthy. The garage does keep it warmer in the winter (no scraping!), cooler in the summer, and protects the paint from UV (as does the Zaino).

In garage with OEM cover. The interior has been covered with a white sheet, and a moisture absorbant canister placed on the floor. Moth balls in cup placed in engine compartment. Battery has a trickle charger designed for storage attached and fed underneath. Full tank of gas and 5 lbs over in each tire.

.....sleeping until spring.....

Mine stays in the garage. When the weather calls for it, I take it out and drive her. Not in the snow though. I use my 4 wheel drive SUV for that.

after buying the pool table we found it too heavy and too dificult to put in the house. we had no other alternative. and yea she is one gracious lady. haha i love my mom!

all mama's boy antics aside. doesn't keeping a car garage keep it in better condition over all, not just the exterior?

No garage for me, so I got a $25 car cover from Pep Boys - fits like a glove

Why no cover in the rain? That's the main reason I got mine...

Are you in north Fl?

If the car cover isn't truly waterproof it will get soaked inside. If your car remains parked for days under those conditions it can mildew or the wet cover laying on the paint over time can cause discoloration of the paint.

This thread reminds me of something I heard a comedian say once:

"Only in America will you see people keep their $30,000 car in the driveway because of $3000 worth of junk in the garage."

(I admit to be being guilty of that at one time.)

My 8 lives in the garage alongside my '76 Alfa Spider. Between them sits a 1986 Honda 700VFR.

-- Eric H., Marietta, GA

Hmmm, that's disconcerting...my cover ($25) is "water resistant" - I assume this means it repels water to some extent. Should I not keep it covered in the rain? I'll be pretty dissapointed if this thing doesnt keep my car dry...

Why did you put mothballs in the engine compartment?

Mice love dormant cars. They are most at home under the hood with all the wires to be chewed and sound insulation to make a nice nest from. Turns out they hate moth balls even more. Its cheap insurance.:)

How long does the moth ball smell last after you take them out...mothballs always reminds me of old people for some reason.

daily driven, no garage but when we go somewhere on it a park only on the edge space and far from every car

No garage and the bf's bikes are in the shed. Since it will be my daily driver (hope to pick it up on Friday!!!), it will be parked outside at work as well.

I'm looking at getting a car cover for home.

Anyone know the best place to get a car cover?