Taking the necessary steps to get your vehicle ready for winter is critical in maintaining its value and performance. What you don’t want? Spring arrives, you’re ready to hit the road, and boom… broken gasket, oil leak, dead battery. Now your weekends are spent in the garage rebuilding instead of cruising. Oil changes, fuel stabilizers, battery disconnection, and seal protection are essential prep steps.
How Does Winter Affect Your Car?
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The holidays are near, and classic car enthusiasts face a familiar dilemma: put your pride and joy into winter storage or risk corrosive effects of road salt on seasonal drives. Most collectors make the smart choice… garage it until spring. But here’s what many don’t realize: sitting idle for months creates its own mechanical threats.
Temperature swings cause seals to fail as cold weather thickens engine oil and other vital fluids, making them move less freely through internal systems and causing gaskets to dry out and seals to crack. Cold starts stress engines, with battery strength dropping by approximately 35% once temperatures reach freezing. Salt-contaminated moisture destroys electrical systems, and road salt causes strong chemical reactions with exposed metal, potentially damaging fuel and brake lines. Condensation builds fuel systems and electrical components.
When spring finally arrives and you turn that key for the first time in months, that’s when disaster strikes. When your engine refuses to start or begins to leak from failed gaskets after months of storage, your car insurance won’t help. It covers accidents, collisions, theft, and body damage, but mechanical breakdowns. Forget about it.
Insurance vs. Vehicle Service Contracts.
This is where the distinction between insurance and Vehicle Service Contracts (VSCs) becomes critical for classic and exotic car owners.
Insurance=Accidents
VSC=Breakdowns
Traditional auto insurance protects against collisions, theft, and physical damage to your vehicle’s body. But mechanical failures (the kind accelerated by winter weather) fall outside insurance coverage. The VSC market is growing rapidly, expanding from $32.29 billion in 2024 to a projected $44.31 billion by 2030.
What is Legendary Car Protection?
For classic cars, repairs, especially engines or transmissions, can cost anywhere from $1,200 to $10,000 or more. Legendary Car Protection provides Vehicle Service Contracts (VSC) specifically for classics, exotics, and everyday vehicles. This coverage helps protect engine failures, transmission issues, electrical problems, and full powertrain protection that insurance doesn’t touch.
What makes us different:
✓ No mileage restrictions – because we understand collectors drive their cars
✓ Coverage for vehicles from 1930 to today – classic muscle cars, vintage Europeans, modern supercars, and everyday drivers
✓ Month-to-month Flexibility – cancel anytime, no long-term commitments
✓ Certified specialist network nationwide – Shops that understand your vehicle
✓ Comprehensive powertrain coverage – engine, transmission, electrical, A/C systems
Whether you’re protecting that ’70 Dodge Challenger R/T, 1963 Corvette, or Ferrari, we cover the mechanical realties insurance ignores. Limited Time Offer: Use code 250OFF at checkout for $250 off your first year. Get your free quote today.
Classic car owners who make the smart choice of storing vehicles decades old face compounding risks because sitting idle doesn’t preserve mechanics; it degrades them. Rubber seals become brittle without regular lubrication. Gaskets dry and crack from temperature fluctuations. Fuel systems collect moisture and of course batteries lose charge even when disconnected.
You have avoided road salt all winter, the smart move. But the hidden threat? An $8,000+ mechanical failure that your insurance won’t cover.
Ready to protect your investment?
Get a free quote at LegendaryCarProtection.com or call us at 800-927-7268.
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Don’t let spring startup turn into a nightmare. Protect your car today.
