One better is to have it sprayed every fall. I’ve been going to Carwell for years now. It is great suff. My Ranger was rusty underneath when I bought it. But, everything I have replaced over the years still looks new. I get my truck sprayed every October/November and just drive it all winter. I don’t wash it. The body hasn’t aged and some of the rust seems to have “healed” to the point where there is no more scale.
Side note, Carwell does all the FedEx trucks around the Buffalo area. You see the same “Dirt swirl” on the sides of the trucks.
Only way I’d store a car is if it was something I planned on keeping a LOOONG time as an investment or it was a major project car. AKA, something like a classic muscle car that appreciates in value or something like Drew’s RX-7 project. A mostly stock Evo, as nice as it is, is still just a car and in 5 years or so and either you’ll have some life change that causes you to want something else (kid, house, career etc) or you’ll just be bored with it. If you drive it or store it the thing is still doing to depreciate since in 5+ years it’s still nothing but a mass production used sporty car. You might get a little more for it claiming it has never seen snow/salt but it won’t be nearly enough to offset the upkeep, registration and insurance on a 2nd car all that time.
Its a hard decision for sure, but its AWD and it will probably worth the fun to drive it in the snow. I myself am looking for a winter vehicle, I want a truck because last year with the 4 feet, i drove around while everyone else got stuck. I don’t see an EVO or STI being able to drive in that much snow.
I just bought a 99 Caddie Deville for $1800. Everything works and its a pretty nice winter ride. Acura is stored for the winter in brand new garage and I don’t have to worry about it rusting since it has never seen a winter.
i actually got plowed in once and just let the car warm up and 2stepped launched it through the snowbank. awd + winter tires + welded diff + turbo = shits on a truck.
God bless it’s soul.
Get a winter beater. You’ll have fun beating the piss out of it and not caring about the salt or how many snow banks you blast through. As long as you have a nice car to come back to when the snow is gone, winter beaters are fun.
I’d put some nice snows on the Evo and let it rip! Like others have said, personally I couldn’t justify spending all that money on a car your going to park for half the year. And it’s AWD. If it was a brand new Z06 or something, than that’s another story.
If you do go beater, a $1000 DSM your going to DD probably isn’t the best idea. Hell, I’m a DSM guy and I’ll even admit that!
Although, skrapper has a 1G tsi awd that he’s selling that is ugly as sin, but runs like a top if your really interested.