Should I live a bit ?

[MarkK]

In a week or so I have to pop down to Cornwall,on my own for a meet up with family...for a couple of days
Question,how bad is it for my turbo to drive in the salt...?
Should I leave it tucked up,and like the title says live a bit!(if no snow is predicted)
What do you think?

 

[ralphmusic]

It is lovely down here in Devon with not less than 9 degrees C for next ten days and my palm tree does not like snow...

It will rain though.

 

[edh]

Not so bad if it's cleaned off fairly promptly - and I can't think for a minute you'd leave one of your 944's to sit around looking grubby & unloved []

 

[MarkK]

It would be 3 days before I would have a chance to clean it...
Long time dead I suppose ,just don't want to accelerate the ageing of the car..

 

[WBray]

There has been a little bit of grit spread recently down here for a couple of weeks now or near me anyway. Weather has been lovely, I have also stopped wearing jacket and gloves while at work
Only problem im finding is dirty lanes making a mess of the car
Where in Cornwall you going?

 

[Craigybaby]

An old saying,but....better to regret doing it than regret not doing it. Its only a car.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

ORIGINAL: MarkK

It would be 3 days before I would have a chance to clean it...
Long time dead I suppose ,just don't want to accelerate the ageing of the car..

Three days in 30 years isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference. Assuming it's all protected underneath, nothing will be touching the metal anyway? [8|]

Go for it. Or, here's a thought....take one of the Sinclair C5s? They shouldn't be mothballed either! [][]

 

[Indi9xx]

Go for it, surely somewhere in Devon there must be a ford in a river you can go splashing through to give it a rinse?

3 days isn't going to make a massive difference, or even a measurable one.

I am a bit of an advocate of the advice that it is better to stretch the legs of a 944 once or twice in the winter months than to leave them mothballed all winter... Having said that, I would also advise that unless you clean in the wheel arches and under the body on a very regular basis of not driving them all winter.

Although.. Thinking about it, one of my customers has an S2 Cab with 300,000 miles on the clock, does about 50k miles a year, drives it all winter and I believe it is on original sills and arches without so much as a blister of rust anywhere! Yet we also have some garage queen 944's which are suffering from mega rust... So I might just be talking complete balls.

 

[andy watson]

Mark,

Short answer - YES []

 

[Hairyarse]

Do it, do it and er, do it! []

 

[T3rra]

If it worries you don't. Could go self clean wash station thing and pressure wash the arches

 

[MarkK]

I am thinking of just using it,thanks chaps,I will keep an eye on temperatures as long as no super slippery weather is forecast...why not..
Cheers Chaps[]

 

[J.C944TurboMan]

That is a great picture ! I am on route

 

[zcacogp]

Haver to say Mark, one thing I have never understood about you is why you drive your 944's so little! []


Oli.

 

[Ex Skyline]

WTF!!! It's Christmas mate! Y'know.....party season and all that []. Ditch the sodding car and get p155ed!![8D][]

 

[Melv]

Drive it like you stole it!!![]

 

[tscaptain]

ORIGINAL: MarkK

In a week or so I have to pop down to Cornwall,on my own for a meet up with family...for a couple of days
Question,how bad is it for my turbo to drive in the salt...?
Should I leave it tucked up,and like the title says live a bit!(if no snow is predicted)
What do you think?

If you want to take a 20 minute detour off the A30 at Okehampton you can borrow my pressure washer.....[] Minimum forecast temperature up to 19th is 4C so I doubt there will be any gritting going on!

 

[MarkK]

Cheers for that!Appreciate the offer []

 

[colin944]

What is the point of owning a car if your not going to drive it or pull it to bits and rebuild it.
I cant believe your debating weather or not to drive it in the winter.

If it was a multi million pound classic then maybe think about it,but it's a 944 Turbo not a Bugatti Royale.

 

[MarkK]

Thanks for that...
Very fond of the car in question I have a long history with and trust me it has been used plenty in its past,these days rightly or wrongly i can be a bit Lord of the rings about it as I have already had it pulled apart for a light resto up to a nice standard and I don't relish the idea of salty roads screwing up my hard earned work.But I do fancy just using it as per a proportion of your logic although the amount of care I take with something(or indeed the amount I spend on it) is not always proportional to its market value (my logic).
A conflict I had with myself whether or not to use it salty weather...so hence the question,everybody is different eh?
I am leaning towards using it.