I thought I'd let her out to stretch her legs on this nice day. Sooo tempting to just take it out on a real ride; however, with the residual salt and safety gravel on the roads it would not be worth it. So back in the igloo for another month.

 

I feel your pain. We had a lot of salt on the roads. But we had a few rainstorms the last week or so and now it's 60+ degrees outside!

Just took the Jag out for a spin and had a blast!!

 

Same here AMC ... took her out for 70 miles and a quarter tank of gas

Loth

 

You guys are going to make me cry. Ryan, did you take the XKR-S out?

 

Geez, only going to hit 79 here today. A bit chilly from the high 80s last week. 😜

I feel bad for those if you who cannot enjoy your babies 12 months a year.

 

I'll be in Scottsdale in 2 weeks. I wish I could take my car with me. In the summer when it's 75% here and 110% in Zonie land I'll be thinking about you. I hope you have cooling seats.

 

Nope, no cooling seats. Me and the Jag will both be in the pool when it's 110* 😙

 

DGL:

A couple of points about your post.

1)I am a big fan of CTEK battery maintainers, but now I realize how the residents of Nova Scotia charge their car batteries.......simply run the electric lines from the power poles to the top of the car.

2). I knew my twin brother was out there somewhere. Us "XKR" brothers are rare and so glad to see that you have found him.

Nice car, nice photos.

 

Ha! I thought I'd seen that picture somewhere before...

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/a...r-p1000545-jpg

 

Good memory! The old 175 looks good! Same spot in my driveway different XKR. About a year ago. Both cars in the picture the 175 and the G37 have been traded for a 2013 XKR and a 2013 Merc SLK55 AMG respectively.

 

I am expecting to take my car out of storage on March 8th. Been in the garage with battery tender since beginning of December. Looked at the car once near Christmas, but that's it. I sure hope it starts, tires are fine, and no varmints have constructed a new home in the car.

 

What a feeling when we take our cars out of storage in the spring. Just like bringing them home new for the first time! I'm sure we're all looking forward to the summer after this crazy winter! Notice the snow plow in front of my garage; came in very handy this winter.

 

I remembered it because I hadn't had my own XK very long and was enamored by everyone's pictures. I still had it bookmarked.

Now that I have moved out of the city I, too, hesitate to take the car out on these rainy, muddy winter days. In town a quick rub down to dry the rainwater would keep it looking nice, but out here the mud is horrendous.

Oh, well, at least one if my cars is happy

 

it always boggles me, the way some of you guys have to park your cars up for about 1/3 of a year. Guess I'm lucky enough to live somewhere where it rarely snows. Must be like having your cash locked in a time-locked vault - you know it's there, but you can't use it. I drive mine every chance I get - even planning to drive from London to County Kerry in Ireland (with a little help from Stena Sealink) rather than fly; my other half, being sensible, is taking Air Fungus to Shannon.

 

Does your department of highways or municipality use winter safety solutions on the roads which are damaging to your car such as salt or traction gravel? I found the traction gravel used here has a sand blasting effect on the paint, especially behind the front wheels. The Jaguar XK is notorious for this road rash problem. OMG, not to mention the mine field of pot holes left from the freezing/thaw cycles. It's worse than like having your cash locked in a time vault because when you open up the vault some of your cash has evaporated from depreciation and I have 3 2013+ $100,000 cars locked in my time vault.

 

They use a salt+grit mix, but only when they think it will actually snow/freeze, which normally equates to about 3 days per year in these parts. And they usually tell everyone to avoid travelling on such days, because they don't have enough gritters to cover more than the major roads (you can't afford to keep a huge fleet of trucks that are only needed 3 days per year).

Sympathy, mate - at least you have the space to keep 'em warm & dry. Mine's an outdoor cat, so it would suffer. We did get a solid snowfall one year while I still had my XJ-S as a 'hobby' car - since it wasn't used much, I didn't clear the snow off it, and once the snow melted, the car was saturated inside. The snow had trapped water in places from which it should have run off, and probably frozen the runoff channels, so it had leaked in all over the place. It took days to dry it out, and I had to replace the headlining because the condensation had rotted it.