# Storing a car for a few months

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/storing-a-car-for-a-few-months/41291>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** fit, honda\
**Created:** [December 26, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storing-a-car-for-a-few-months/41291 "2009-12-26T17:01:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jasmynkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@jasmynkendall](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jasmynkendall)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storing-a-car-for-a-few-months/41291/1 "2009-12-26T17:01:10Z")

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I have a 2007 Honda Fit and I will be out of the country for a few months. I have no garage and no where to keep the car. What should I do? Leave it in the street outside my daughter’s house and ask her to drive it occasionally or put it in a storage facility? I will be gone over winter but I live in south east NC where the winters are not so cold.

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**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storing-a-car-for-a-few-months/41291/2 "2009-12-26T17:03:42Z")

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In your case I would just make sure your daughter looked after it and drove it regularly some distance. A few months is not a long timel; many slow selling cars sit on the delaer lots for much loger.

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**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:** [December 26, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/storing-a-car-for-a-few-months/41291/3 "2009-12-26T19:55:54Z")

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If you store it you don’t need to pay the collusion part of your insurance and that may save enough to pay for the storage.

Short drives are not a good way to store a car. Frankly most of the time a car is better off not being driven at all.

Remove the battery and store it where it can be attached to a battery tender and add a little fuel stabilizer before storing it. That should be all it needs. A few months is not long storage and many cars sit on car lots a lot longer than that and suffer no damage.

Good Luck