Storing Your Porsche Taycan

A 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.

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Kevin
CAR FOR SALE! 2002 E46 M3 Convertible 6MT

Many 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.

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Kevin
Car Storage Facility As An Events Venue…Good Or Bad?

Over 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.

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Kevin
Why Is It Difficult To Find An Exact Fit Battery For My German Car?

Batteries 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!

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Kevin
Some New Knowledge About AGM Batteries

This 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…

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Be Careful Who You Store Your Car With

Last 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…

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CAR FOR SALE ON BRING A TRAILER! 2011 BMW 335is 6 speed Manual

We 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…

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If You Buy This Salvage Title Ferrari Testarossa, Store it with us!

Its 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…

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Vendor Highlight: Velvet Touch

We 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…

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State Farm’s Recommendations for Vehicle Storage

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…

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