Beware of unheated storage areas.

[RECHRGD]

Over the holidays we took a trip to the midwest to see family.  For reasons I won't go into now, I had to rent a 10X20 storage space to put the Charger in during our absence.  After about a month, I went to get it out and trailer it home.  When I saw the car it was moist everywhere.  The windows were foggy, the wheels were wet and the body was, well, wet.  If I would have left the car in there all winter I would have had some serious rust problems.  I noticed the other day while working on it that some rust had already started on the leaf springs and the brake master cylinder.  The spaces are made of concrete block on slab with metal roofs.  I store the car there in the summer with no problems and didn't even think about the dew point and stuff like that during winter months.  Just a heads up.  Bob

[nh_mopar_fan]

It must depend on where you live. Up here, my cars stay completely dry without issue year around on concrete.

I was surprised when JB666 was looking for a dehumidifier last fall.

Good advice.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Sadly some of us have no choice

[jb666]

  it's rough... My garage is VERY well insulated and heated to a point.. I keep it around 45 over the winter... The dehumidifier has been running (not draining outside) since I got it and I empty it every 10 days or so...  I will say though, that every year I kept my Vette in the garage my rotors got a small layer of rust on them... The General has no signs of this.  

The funniest part is we live at the top of a HUGE hill... My basement never sees a drop , yet my garage floor (BEFORE Epoxy Coating it) used to get damp.. It would rise up from underneath...

[Troy]

I had the same problem with a storage area - luckily (I guess) I only had parts in there. When the snow would melt the air would get damp and foggy. Any cold metal would cause it to condense. I had water literally dripping off of everything. I moved. But yes, had it stayed like that for an extended period of time it would have all surface rusted badly (can't imagine what it would do to an engine).

Troy

[Steve P.]

I had a similar problem years ago in an outside bathroom on my second shop. It turned out that when someone, years before me, remodeled they closed off the circulation vent from the rest of the building. I never used the plumbed furnace as I burned motor oil to heat the shop, so that room had no heat or air moving in and out of it. I only stored tires and some BS in there so I didn't much care.

I did rear somewhere that storing cars in a NON-HEATED space should have a humidifier/dehumidifier installed and that 20 - 28% humidity was perfect. I would have thought zero would be best but it had to do with dry rotting cloth tops and interiors and rubber.  When I built my old shop I insulated the crap out of it and installed a wall AC/dehumidifier. My 65' is still a very happy camper there... I have to figure out what I'm going to do here for this new shop..... Love to do the same thing, but this house maky-me-breaky... 

[jb666]

I had a similar problem years ago in an outside bathroom on my second shop. It turned out that when someone, years before me, remodeled they closed off the circulation vent from the rest of the building. I never used the plumbed furnace as I burned motor oil to heat the shop, so that room had no heat or air moving in and out of it. I only stored tires and some BS in there so I didn't much care.

I did rear somewhere that storing cars in a NON-HEATED space should have a humidifier/dehumidifier installed and that 20 - 28% humidity was perfect. I would have thought zero would be best but it had to do with dry rotting cloth tops and interiors and rubber.  When I built my old shop I insulated the crap out of it and installed a wall AC/dehumidifier. My 65' is still a very happy camper there... I have to figure out what I'm going to do here for this new shop..... Love to do the same thing, but this house maky-me-breaky... 

Exactly.. TOO DRY can be as bad as TOO DAMP... Finding the "happy medium" is the goal.

[RECHRGD]

I guess they should have put a dehumidifier in with that '57 Fury when they buried it for fifty years.  That didn't look real pretty when they dug it up a few years ago.   Bob

[1969chargerrtse]

That's why I bought my Air chamber last year.  It was expensive ( 850.00 ), but redoing my car in detail would cost more and take lots of my time.
My garage is always moist, but now my charger is dry.



http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,53994.0.html

[70charginglizard]

That's why I bought my Air chamber last year.  It was expensive ( 850.00 ), but redoing my car in detail would cost more and take lots of my time.
My garage is always moist, but now my charger is dry.



http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,53994.0.html

New nickname for your charger....bubble boy. lol 

just kidding around.

[1969chargerrtse]

That's why I bought my Air chamber last year.  It was expensive ( 850.00 ), but redoing my car in detail would cost more and take lots of my time.
My garage is always moist, but now my charger is dry.



http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,53994.0.html

New nickname for your charger....bubble boy. lol 

just kidding around.

Bubble car?