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Old 09-29-2007, 08:09 PM
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To answer your question, and not ridicule you and your homelike others here are doing....I would cover the Mustang and garage the Buick. Having to deal w/ cleaning off a car and scraping ice is just too big a pain!!! Start up the Mustang and takeit for a drive on the better days to keep it in good running condition over the winter.
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Old 09-29-2007, 08:40 PM
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Since I don't drive the Mustang in the winter anyway, each year I cover it and put the SUV in the garage. I have no patience to be scraping ice and snow of the car each day, and/or waiting for it to warm up outside when i've got a perfectly good garage.
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Old 09-29-2007, 08:46 PM
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Being from Illinois original where there is alot of snow, it would NOT work with the car cover. Snow is wet and the car cover will soak up the water and overnight it will freeze. Then you will have a frozen car cover stuck to your car WITH a bunch of snow ontop of it. LOL I can't even imagine.

Snow sucks, no doubt about it


I def agree with that, had it happen to the convertible last year. the cover will freeze to the paint and get stuck and you can't get it off till it warms up.
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Old 09-29-2007, 08:55 PM
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Garage the Mustang and get a remote start for the DD. That way you can start the DD up 15 mins before you need to drive it and have the heater running WOT.
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Old 09-29-2007, 09:10 PM
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+1 on the car-port and remote start (for the DD)
I've visited the north and had no problem scraping ice (if I lived there it might get annoying)
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Old 09-29-2007, 09:17 PM
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rent a storage unit for your daughters furniture and garage them both.
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Old 09-29-2007, 09:33 PM
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Don't leave the mustang out side. I did that the first year I goit it and we had a wet cold winter. the snow would melt and then refreeze and the cover would be frozen solid. In the spring, when I removed the cover, there were abrasion marks on the trunk. For some reason the hood was OK. I was able to buff the marks out but when the car gets a little dirty, if the light hits it just right, you can still see the abrasion marks form the fisrt winter.

Garage the mustang.
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Old 09-29-2007, 09:51 PM
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Garage your mustang
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Old 09-29-2007, 09:55 PM
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It's a no brainer. Coral that stang!
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Old 09-29-2007, 10:00 PM
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Move south. It's way too early for snow. Otherwise, garage the Stang and buy a four wheel drive beater.
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