Removing coilovers for the winter. Any special care required before storage?

[Guest LGT-NY]

As the title states, I'm taking off my coilovers for the winter to prevent them from becoming molested by salt and sand.

 

Should I do anything special to prevent them from drying out, corroding, etc.? Will it be a problem for them to be stored and usused for a few months?

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Guest]

You need to hang them vertically otherwise they will go bad.

 

 

 

 

 

lol

[Guest LGT-NY]

I'm teh stupidest kid this of the Mississippi.

[Guest]

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

[Guest LGT-NY]

Yeah, I guess that was a stupid question.

 

Thanks Matt.

[Guest]

Sorry, could not resist!

 

Just toss them into a box, that's all.

[RaGe]

 

PWNED

[Guest LGT-NY]

Wait, so I don't have to hang them upright? Now I'm really confused.

[RaGe]

[Guest LGT-NY]

[Guest Gitster]

Dahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahaha !!!!

[Guest LGT-NY]

Oh god... Here we go...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol:

[Guest Gitster]

Haha, jk. They ******* sealed arent they? Theyre fine, just dont submerge them in salt and then leave them out in the freezing weather

[Guest LGT-NY]

I thought it was a perfectly reasonable question when I posted it, but seeing all of your kind responses I guess it was a stupid one.

 

Mod, please close this before I start hysterically crying and get explosive diarrhea.

 

))<>((

[RaGe]

yes, hang them up with the top hats facing towards the clouds

 

i was learned to store them with the top hats facing up.

[Guest LGT-NY]

I don't know who to trust.

 

 

[RaGe]

no seriously, they need to be stored facing up. i would say if they were going to be shipped they need to be compressed, but they are not. so just face the top hats in the up position.

[Guest LGT-NY]

Alright, thanks RaGe?

[RaGe]

np/

[RaGe]

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

 

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

 

 

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

 

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

Well, that depends whether they are inverted struts or not

 

 

 

 

LOL

[Guest LGT-NY]

Oh No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SBT]

And put them where they'll be reasonably warm. No sense freezing them for days on end in an outside, unheated garage where they're not going to see any action, especially uncompressed.

 

BTW - use some anti-seize on your bolts when you put your strut back on so you don't kill yourself trying to get them off to reinstall the COs in the Spring.

[Guest LGT-NY]

Thansk SBT.

 

Now please close this and delete it forever...

[RaGe]

oh no, leave it open SBT. he wont live this one down.

[rao]

I'd store them on the car