Parking on pavement vs dirt
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4x4x4doors
Explorer
For long term storage, parking on dirt allows the grass and whatever to grow up around the vehicle which will trap moisture and promote corrosion but I'm talking months or years at a time. I've lived in houses both with and without paved drives/parking spots and haven't noticed a difference in what corrodes or doesn't.
jeepmedic46
Expedition Leader
Buliwyf
Viking with a Hammer
Concrete is the rust mother of the WORLD. Nothing is wetter than a good garage floor. Concrete will rot a car as fast as the earth will. Your humidity levels in your area have a lot to do with it. Obviously the concrete floor of a dusty old chicken barn isn't going to have the same effect as a concrete barn floor in eastern PA. Plenty of rust bucket farm tractors that have never seen salt.
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My Mustang Mach1 gets stored over a tarp in my garage with a small utility heater blowing fresh air under it.
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My Mustang Mach1 gets stored over a tarp in my garage with a small utility heater blowing fresh air under it.
Dawgboy
Adventurer
I live in the dry west, so I don't see this. I do think that leaving dust from running up and down a dirt drive will cause damage over time though. I used to live at the end if a half mile dirt drive and would recommend a weekly or biweekly wash down.
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rxinhed
Dirt Guy
ALL the auto museums have concrete floors. However, the have ventilation and temperature control, too. Are you worried about immediate needs, or preserving the vehicle as in Red Barchetta?
"My uncle preserved for me an old machine, for fifty-odd years...To keep it as new has been his dearest dream." ....Rush
"My uncle preserved for me an old machine, for fifty-odd years...To keep it as new has been his dearest dream." ....Rush
I live in the very wet PWN, my driveway and parking area is gravel (and mud) and is only dry about 2.5 months a year, I had a Suburban for 11 years and it didn't have any rust on it at all. It was driven pretty much daily, not stored.
I suppose it might be better to park over well drained pavement, but I haven't seen that it's bad to park on gravel.
I suppose it might be better to park over well drained pavement, but I haven't seen that it's bad to park on gravel.
redthies
Renaissance Redneck
I'd say you just brought up this car to show-off, but since you didn't post a pic (or 12), it is clearly a figment of your over active imagination!
Buliwyf
Viking with a Hammer
It's an '04. It's had a few tracks days and years of Florida sun. It needs paint. Too ugly to post, I'll get shunned for having a used hard sportscar! 04 Cobra bumper, better seats, some bigger wheels, and I'm installing Max Motorsports Coilovers, panhard bar, and Bilsteins. Goint to try to install an offroad H pipe as well.
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Since the truck I'm fixing up sees all the winter use. It's getting budget priority right now. Hopefully I'll have the truck finished and this will be it's last winter before I roll it into the body shop. The Mach will have to wait another year or two.
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*So all these Farmers throughout recent times who've squirreled away trucks in their barns to later become "Barn Finds" must've been doing it wrong? :wings:
Just be sure to do like someone else already hinted and not let the grass grow up all around and into it and you'll be fine. It all depends on soil conditions and your weather is all it boils down to. I'd be more worried about rodents and spiders IMHO.
*So all these Farmers throughout recent times who've squirreled away trucks in their barns to later become "Barn Finds" must've been doing it wrong? :wings:
Just be sure to do like someone else already hinted and not let the grass grow up all around and into it and you'll be fine. It all depends on soil conditions and your weather is all it boils down to. I'd be more worried about rodents and spiders IMHO.