State Farm had a very appropriate blog post on their website about car storage. We posted it to our facebook page (follow us by the way!). There is lots of good information here. Some of which we echo on our own blog. The article specifically talks about the reputability of the car storage facility you pick. More specific than that, however (and something we’ve harped on before) is to pick a place that has been around for awhile. Most auto storage…
Read MoreAnother popular service we offer is wheel refinishing. Almost all new vehicles come with 18” or larger wheels with very low profile tires. It is almost inevitable that you will curb or scrape them. OEM wheels are also pricey! I just did a quote for a 2011 BMW 3 series wheel (non M) and it was over $400! The solution? Wheel refinishing! We are fortunate to work with a quality, consistent, and family owned wheel refinisher called American Factory Wheel….
Read MoreSomething that we wish more of our customers knew about were our extra services. For additional fees, we can perform all sorts of vehicle maintenance and care services: Paint, body, basic service, mechanical repair, plastidip. We work closely with reliable and skilled technicians that can competently repair and improve your vehicle while it’s in our care. The latest project we are proud of is this Jeep Wrangler. As you can see, the owner loves it. The whole Currie parts catalogue…
Read MoreThere are many people and business we depend on to be able to deliver value to our customers. One of those businesses is Ace Radiator in Barrio Logan. Ace Radiator has been around since 1921 and has served us well for many years! They offer gas tank and radiator restoration for almost all applications. Their services are very useful for older cars whose radiators have become calcified and repro’s aren’t made or just don’t look as good under the hood….
Read MoreSince we store cars, it’s only natural that we interface quite often with transport companies. Sometimes customers self select transporters to have their car retrieved and sometimes we receive them for short or long holds. We also do business with a fantastic transport company out of Connecticut called A-AAA Auto Transport. Send Ian a message for a transport quote if you need a solid broker! Auto Transport can be a nasty business. Lots of brokers and truckers and only a…
Read MoreMany of our customers will want to bring in their own trickle chargers so that we can actively charge their car’s battery rather than disconnecting them. This is important for higher-end cars as they have more computers. Those computers need constant flow of the proper voltage. Choking that voltage by battery disconnect COULD cause warning lights and the car to misbehave in minor ways the next time you drive it. However, you don’t need to break the bank to ensure…
Read MoreWe get a lot of questions about suspending registration with the DMV. This is called ‘Planned Non Op Status’ or PNO . This will hopefully provide some answers on when and how to go about doing this. ***note that this is for the CA DMV only *** If your car isn’t going to be on the road for a while and you want to completely cancel your insurance, you need to put the vehicle on a PNO status with the…
Read MoreWe were very fortunate to have a few cars we store featured in a great new(ish) book called the ‘Art of the Mustang’. The book was first published last year but we finally got our copies. There are probably hundreds of coffee table books that have been the focus of America’s favorite sports car but this one celebrates the lesser known versions (SVO, Mustang II, Fox Bodies, etc). We stored both the Mustang Grande and the Cobra II featured in…
Read MoreI wanted to take a minute to give a big thank you to the fine folks at A-AAA Auto Transport. They have become one our most trusted vendors. Often times we have customers who want to ship their cars to store or out of storage to where they have moved and ended up. We have spent years trying to find a transport company that took their business seriously. With other carriers, our customers’ vehicles were picked up or delivered late…and…
Read MoreWe’ve stored a few Chevrolet Volts in the past. This is our first one of the new generation though…a very nice improvement over the outgoing first gen. You can watch all sorts of reviews here. But I wanted to make light of some of the storage modes on the car…yes it actually has modes for storage… The volt is a great in-between solution for the aspiring electric car owner with a bit of range anxiety: the car is driven by…
Read MoreWe’ve had quite a few electric cars come through our doors now. One volt had even been stored with us for two years with no fuss. We’d like to think we have these electrics figured out but we had a surprise with two Teslsas (oddly at the same time) while in our care. The Key fob had gone completely dead. These keys are expensive so you could imagine our panic, thinking we were going to have to buy two new…
Read MoreI decided to wake up at the buttcrack of dawn, clean my car and park it at the Outlets in San Clemente this past weekend. I am really glad I did. This is the cars and coffee for people who love everything. New Ferraris, Armored Cars, Off Roaders, Imports…everything. Best of all the owners are all super approachable and love their vehicles…no pretense, no snobbery. This is a weekly show on Saturdays from 7-9.
Read MoreI know its been a while since we’d last updated our blog. We undertook an extensive project to re-purpose some of our warehouse space for more cars! Over the past 2 months we demo’d a food processing plant at our Otay location. We now have an extra 10,000 square feet in which to house more civilian and military member’s cars and trucks. Heres a short video of us dropping the final vent ducts for clearance. A post shared by AAAA…
Read MoreWe have been gearing up for this day for the last several months…the USS Makin Island Battle group has returned from deployment. We took in over 80 cars from Marines and Sailors about 6 mos ago. After their tour of duty they arrived back on US shores today. Thank you for allowing us to take care of your cars, trucks, motorcycles. It was a privilege to do so!
Read MoreOne of the most important things to do on your car is to check your fluids. This is especially important for cars that we store! However with the mix of old and new cars out there, even something as simple as checking your oil can be annoying and confusing.
Read MoreWe MOSTLY store normal pedestrian cars. Some classics…and fewer exotics. However this one is rarefied air. The Ford GT is a throwback car. Its done in the spirit of the Ford GT40: The famous car that Carroll Shelby drove in the 1966 LeMans race. The 3 GT40s fielded beat all three of the comparable Ferrari’s. This was sweet revenge for Ford as Ferraris owners had backed out of an acquisition deal a few years earlier. As a matter of fact…
Read MoreWe often get the comment from folks that they didn’t even realize our service ‘was a thing!’
Read MoreAnother great car we have stored is up for sale by the owner and we are spreading the word…
Read MoreWe get lots of questions and often help with VIN verifications. I decided based on the dearth of knowledge out there to write a quick blog post about them in order to hopefully make getting one a little easier.
Read MoreSan Diego just became home to a the first ship in a new generation in Naval destroyers: The USS Zumwalt.
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