Category Archives: Blogs

Vehicle transport is one of those services most owners rarely think about until they need it. Then the question arrives quickly: enclosed or open? The difference in cost is meaningful, sometimes substantially so. The difference in protection is also meaningful, sometimes substantially so. And the answer to which one is right depends on the vehicle, […]

Winter storage is the season most UK car owners think about when they consider putting a vehicle away. The reasoning is intuitive: salt on the roads, cold and damp, weather that a valued car should be shielded from. Guidance on preparing a car for winter is widely available — including on this site, in the […]

The phrase “daily visual checks” appears on almost every specialist car storage facility’s marketing material, including every page on the Pitstop 66 website. It reads well. It reassures. It sounds substantially better than “weekly checks” or “monthly checks” or the honest reality at self-storage facilities, which is no checks at all. But what does it […]

Extended time abroad presents a practical problem that many UK car owners underestimate until they are within weeks of departure  finding car storage while abroad. What happens to the car? Not the daily runabout that can be sold or handed to a family member, but the one worth keeping — the classic, the weekend car, the […]

The classic car market has shifted meaningfully over the past decade. A generation ago, a good-looking car with a valid MOT and a running engine could be sold on its condition alone — buyers took what they saw and made offers accordingly. That market still exists at lower price points, but at any level above […]

Six months does not sound like a long time. For a car parked in a UK home garage — perhaps while the owner is abroad, on an extended project, dealing with illness, or simply between periods of use — six months feels like a modest interval. The car is out of the weather. The doors […]

A widespread assumption catches many UK car owners out when they first consider indoor storage. The assumption is that any car cover is better than no cover — that anything protecting the paint from dust, sunlight, and general environmental exposure must be a good thing. The reasoning seems sensible on the surface. In practice, the […]

Three options are widely discussed for keeping a car battery healthy during long-term storage. The first is a battery conditioner — a modern intelligent charger that monitors state of charge continuously and provides small pulses as needed. The second is a trickle charger — an older, simpler device that provides a constant low current. The […]

A widespread piece of advice tells owners of stored cars to fire up the engine every couple of weeks to keep everything in working order. The advice is well-meaning. It comes from a generation of car owners who genuinely believed it helped, and it is repeated confidently in enthusiast forums, storage guides, and even some […]

A common assumption catches many UK car owners off guard when they first consider long-term storage. The assumption is that a standard motor insurance policy continues to cover the vehicle whether it is being driven or not. In practice, that assumption is often wrong — and the discovery usually comes at the worst possible moment. […]