Where do most of you store your car? I'm currently spoilt and have a nice garage but I may loose it and I'm thinking of selling the car because of it but how many other keep their cars outdoors or even under a lean to.
Where do most of you store your car? I'm currently spoilt and have a nice garage but I may loose it and I'm thinking of selling the car because of it but how many other keep their cars outdoors or even under a lean to.
On the road. Under the cover if its not going to move for a while. Mine isnt going to win any beauty contests tho.
The only good thing about a garage is they are dry....
Nothing wrong with keeping a car on the road/drive... Covers can scratch paint..never done mine but then none of my cars had mint paintwork
Both of mine stay on the driveway, i used to live elsewhere and had to park the car on a 1 way street. All i can say is the locals must have been short sighted or talentless, parallel parking but scuffing the corners of the front and rear bumpers or clipping the wing mirrors
TBH i'd hate to have a half decent car and have to park it on the street/road. There's no way i would have done the white Clio if there was no driveway to firstly do the project and second leave it there all the time.
Clio 16v sprint car is on the drive, trailer, R5 and 172 projects somewhere in the workshop at brands hatch, Citroën race car at a friends place, the vw beetle and sunbeam in lock ups, the Saxo vtr workhorse and family megane on the road....fook! I need a sell up!
White 5 is in garage,
Red 5 in the back garden behind very secure 6' gates i made and 6' fencing around the whole garden and under a cover
M3 on the drive
Van on the road (very quiet cul de sac)
Garage
my 5 is under a cover in my parents garage, they would never use it anyway
Originally Posted by car.crash
I store my car on the street and always has been for the last 4 yrs or so,been ok and never had any probs before.as for the winter its a diffrent story the body work can take a beating on the paint work if any bare is left untreated ive found,not even under covers either.its one of them in my eyes you have a drive all good or even a garage but if not then its the road.
not being funny but if your bothered about parkin the car in the street and worried about getting scrached sure anythink could happen to the car when you go out in the car and park it on any other normal road/high street like.
let not forget on what happened to mikes cosworth and benjis tungy grey car
I think some times the car is better off and safer in the street parked up than left in some car park down the high street you never know on whos around parking next to you.
but dont sell up though mate.
In my 40 foot double garage, soon to be bigger, room for at least 4 gt turbos and the rs4. You welcome to come and pretend your cars stored at mine... Don't sell up Marc you muppet Wang just keep it going.
My 5 is getting kicked out of the garage onto the drive in a couple of weeks so the Esprit can hide in there over the winter. The 5 did live on the street for a while, but some git broke into it and robbed my 4-point harnesses. Busy fixing the door lock now so its secure again. Some dirty chav kicked my M3 evo last year on the street outside my gaff, beat the rear 1/4 and passenger door in. On a Sunday afternoon too! Feds cought him but wouldn't press charges. Gits...
Spent the last 2 weekends sorting out security lights, steering wheel locks, alarms, fixing the garage roof and working on one of those waterproof fitted car covers. Reckon it should be good under the cover, keeps prying eyes and the rain off.
Don't like leaving things on the road, but needs must when we have too many cars!
Supposed to be a nice area round here too........!
One is parked in the back garden under a pergola, one by side of house on our own land and just purchased a cover for it and the other on the road
cabby in my garage, 172 and willy( soon to be gone ) on the driveway, track clio in some old womens garage up the road, think its still in there anyway
mums garage...
could easily put up a lean2 if a new place will take it.. with your blagging skillz you could come in cheaper than a ten dollar ho ho
tucked up in a nice warm garage.
On the drive, I say drive... It was a path and flower bed before I chucked some extra slabs down in a Renault 5 sized area
There's nothing wrong with keeping your car outside. Here's mine:
Those photos were taken a few days before this year's National Day. It was just a protective layer to keep the weather off of it
now thats better billy!!!
i keep my 5 out side in a private car park round the back from were i live i have 1 of these covers below and heres what i think of them
hiya yer i got my cover from http://www.coveryourcar.co.uk/stormforce.htm a few weeks ago and ive had it on ever since usually try to get the 5 out once a week.
the cover has been very good good fit and comes with straps that go under neath the car to help hold it on.
i live on the isle of man and sometimes it gets very very windy and its been fine only thing ive had to do is make up some clips to hold the cover down over the back bumper.
its kept the 5 dust free and tidy my paint work is very good and polished to a high standard and its been fine so i would recommend the cover 2 any 1 quick post 2
I used to rent a garage when i lived at my mum n dads.
People put garages for rent adverts in sweet shop windows, about £40 a month round here.
Worth a look if your worried.
Gt in garage, gp on the drive
I would love a double garage, next on my list when we move, that and a den
gt in its own garage
11 in my lockup
ka in my lockup
clio on the drive
mini on the drive
rented garage ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, with a blanket over it.
In a bodyshop.....where it's been for the past two months.... where it looks like it might be for another two months.....miss it
I keep my clio in my mums garage ..no room to work on it tho ..need to empty it again
Raider on drive,11 turbo on drive,172 cup in someones parking space ive claimed or on road in our close.I need garage as at least want Raider under cover for winter,11 hopefully going to nans garage,think we aint in neighbours xmas card lists with our 6 cars at our house!lol
Mine sits snuggly in my mates garage which is big enough to put his in aswell so i dont have to move it. But i know the day will come when i'll have to free up this spot then it will be back to parking on the road / driveway and combatting theiving scum
My 5 gt turbo has lived in my garage for 5/6 yrs......too scared to come out ;-)
i keep my 5 gtt under my bed
(well garage under my bedroom
the laguna on the driveway .
i kept my raider on a main road for 2 years.. only thing ever to happen was 1 egg.. just brought a house so its soon to change to a nice leanto
also if u dont mind me asking whats the deal with the climate controlled garage's?
nice one
me mom n dads garage,
im going to afghan for a year so will be ages before i can work on her. but im having a sexy double garage built so when i come back it will be bliss.
currently have a jaguar xj6, peugeot 205 gti, peugeot expert van, missus fiat seicento, and my go kart at my house so a massive garage is essential.
mines on the road and most likely always will be people seem to admire it than damage it
11 Turbo's currently outside the front of my house as the garage is full of other Renault Goodness at the moment!
Raider's kept in my parents neighbours garage!! Thanks Judy!
I keep mine in my neighbours huge garage, probably be able to fit 5 cars in at a push great workshop, awesome sound system, fridge and brewing tackle sometimes I have to pinch myself couldn't ask for anywhere better less than 10 meters from my door.
One day however i will have to move it, then it will be back onto the road, unless i move to a place with my own garage or driveway. Previously it was kept on the road for 7 years and after all that time it definatly has a few shall we say weathered bits!!
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