When not using your vehicle, storing your car indoors has many benefits. We offer both indoor and outdoor storage, but we will almost always advise you to store your car indoors. Here are 7 reasons why.
Read MoreA reminder to drive our cars during quarantine…even if just a little bit.
Read MoreWe wanted to share some news we just received from a service member looking to store her and her husbands two vehicles for 6 months while deployed.
Read MoreWith the outbreak and concern over COVID-19 (or Coronavirus), California authorities and San Diego local governments have asked businesses within the state to shorten or truncate hours in an attempt to limit person-to person interaction. Only ‘essential’ businesses should operate.
Read MoreA few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to be invited to a Porsche Taycan tech demo at Porsche San Diego and The PCA San Diego Region. Our primary interest in going was to see what it would be like to store these new cars for a long period of time. Luckily, I was able to chat with the shop foreman and head mechanic to learn all about this cutting-edge car.
Read MoreWe’ve spent 50 years serving the military in San Diego. This means we deeply understand what we can do to make military members’ lives easier while on deployment- Flexible payments, towing services, prompt email communication. These things seem simple but few businesses get it right.
Read MoreWhen someone comes to get their vehicle from storage, they often ask if the oil in the car is good to be driven on or if they need to change the oil before driving the vehicle regularly.
Read MoreOur customers come in seeking a basic safe place to keep their car, however they end up discovering that when you keep a car with us, there is so much more to what we do.
Read MoreLeasing is becoming an ever more popular alternative to buying or financing a car. Since it’s basically a long term rental, you can acquire the car for a lower-than-purchase out of pocket cost. Maintain it for less, and turn it in for a new version (or different car) when you’re all done!
Read MoreMany times, customers store cars with us because they want to sell them. Sometimes they don’t have room for the car at home, sometimes they are leaving town immediately and need to have us be a sort of automotive escrow.
Read MoreOne of the best things about storing with us, is that we have lots of extra services that can be performed while you’re away. Tires, batteries, paint, body, and mechanical repair: we can do it all while your car is in our care!
Read MoreOver the past couple of years, car storage has become a trendy business to start.
Much of the drive for this has come from the surge in popularity in classic or soon-to-be classic cars. The sudden value increase in Porsches (especially air cooled ones) is a notable example.
Read MoreThere’s big and then there’s 1970s Cadillac big. Enter the 1972 Eldorado…and we are lucky enough to store one and have it up for sale.
If you want absolute pillowy old school luxury, this is the car for you.
Read MoreBatteries are typically an easy maintenance item on cars. Most of the time, a vehicle owner can swap out their own battery with minimal technical aptitude.
Most auto parts stores now have systems where you as an amateur mechanic can walk in, tell them your year, make, and model, and they’ll recommend a battery size. Easy!
Read MoreThis week we received a new old-looking battery from the folks at Antique Auto Battery for a 1970 Dodge Challenger we have in storage. Heres us installing the battery under the hood: With this new battery we received some special instructions on how to jump and charge it. These were frankly tips that we had never seen before. We’ve covered storage of AGM batteries and our general understanding was that they just didn’t like storage. However these tips gave us…
Read MoreLast week we took a vehicle in from a customer who had originally stored his prized Mercedes 380 SL with one of our competitors. His initial phone call to us was a distressed one. He had been storing his car for many years with these people through several ownership and name changes. The current owners left his car sitting for over 3 years without starting! …this is not conjecture, the company’s own documentation left in the car before it was…
Read MoreWe do sell cars for customers from time to time, but this one is special! This is one of our personal cars. A 2011 BMW 335is with a rare optioned 6 speed manual. We bought this car about 5 years ago and enjoyed the heck out of it, but because of improvements we’d like to do on our facilities (to make where we keep YOUR cars that much nicer) we are deciding to part ways with her. This is kind…
Read MoreIts probably never a good idea to buy a salvaged title Ferrari and this Testarossa up for auction at copart is no exception. From what I can tell it has been driven into the dirt…maybe swampy dirt? It probably also hit something from the bottom pan because the car is a little bowed up in the photos….and maybe it’s been repaired once before because that paint on the hood doesn’t really match the rest of the rossocorsa exterior. The internet…
Read MoreWe have a great wheel refinisher called American Factory Wheel (AMF) that we’ve used for years. We even wrote about them in a previous Vendor Highlight. However through another great Vendor (Tony The Dent Dude), we heard about a rim refinisher called Velvet Touch. There are many rim refinishing businesses to choose from in San Diego. However most of them operate out of a brick and mortar location. This means the wheels have to be removed, then the car has…
Read MoreState 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…
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