# Storage car **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** accord, honda\ **Created:** [June 6, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storage-car/49935 "2010-06-06T13:50:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silentboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@silentboy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/silentboy)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storage-car/49935/1 "2010-06-06T13:50:52Z")
Im deployed for 6mths and my car is in storage what should I do before start driving around.it a Honda accord 1994 with 156,000 milea ---
**Author:** ![UncleTurbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9a140/32.png) [@UncleTurbo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/UncleTurbo)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storage-car/49935/2 "2010-06-06T14:14:54Z")
What did you do before you put it in storage? If the gas was stabilized everything should be fine for 6 months. Start it up, check your tire air pressures, and drive carefully until you test the brakes to be sure they are OK. If you get a very loud screach when you start the motor something has frozen up due to non use. It could be the alternator, or the AC compressor, or power steering pump. The screach is from the serpentine belt moving across a pulley that is frozen and not moving. I had a frozen alternator on an Accord once coming out of about 6 months of non use. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storage-car/49935/3 "2010-06-06T23:09:40Z")
What did you do before you put it in storage? That is the real question! ---
**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storage-car/49935/4 "2010-06-07T04:49:44Z")
6 months is nothing. You may have to jump-start it…