No Garage for CTR

Hi everyone, new member here and I'm about to pull the trigger on a 2019 CTR sometime this month! So the thing is I am a homeowner but don't have a garage, and this will be my first NEW car that I would like to daily (currently drive an RSX-S that has been my daily for 6 years). I live in Northern VA so we do get all four seasons and the winters can get brutal (salt, sand, grime). So the question is, if I clear bra and ceramic coat, will I be okay even if I don't have a garage? I guess it would be fine but I just want some input from people who have had more experience with owning and maintaining new cars!

Yes, it will be fine. I also live in Northern VA. I have a one-car garage but we have three cars, so two of them are parked in the driveway or on the street and exposed to the elements every day. The CTR usually gets the garage, but at times it serves as overflow storage space and we can't get a car in there. Ceramic and PPF will be all the protection you need. And remember, it's a car. You're supposed to drive it in the elements, it won't melt. Just watch out for potholes (I'd recommend changing out the stock rims at your earliest opportunity, those things won't last a week on the GW Parkway) and try to rinse off the salt when you can in the winter. Enjoy!

Is keeping the RSX also an option? That way you can put your Type R into a storage unit during the winter months and keep it away from all the salt and you won't have to run snow tires on it.

Ceramic coating and PPF will do wonders for protection against the elements on the cars body. As far as winters go, perhaps applying an under coating or oil/film coating may help preserve the cars undercarriage against corrosion. It won't take long for bolts to start rusting in cold salty/wet conditions.

Vanct said:

Is keeping the RSX also an option? That way you can put your Type R into a storage unit during the winter months and keep it away from all the salt and you won't have to run snow tires on it.

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Yes I will be keeping the rsx, so I could do that but I will be getting snow tires and also dont want to be limited to only driving it during warmer seasons

I think it'll be fine especially if you're getting the exterior protection. I'm in CO and mine sits out, had one of those "bomb cyclone" storms and the first nice day after that happened I took it to the car wash and sprayed the undercarriage.

SBPerformance said:

Ceramic coating and PPF will do wonders for protection against the elements on the cars body. As far as winters go, perhaps applying an under coating or oil/film coating may help preserve the cars undercarriage against corrosion. It won't take long for bolts to start rusting in cold salty/wet conditions.

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I was just about to ask about undercarriage protection! Since I'm gonna be dropping cash on ppf and ceramic, might as well protect the underside.

MisterWhang said:

Hi everyone, new member here and I'm about to pull the trigger on a 2019 CTR sometime this month! So the thing is I am a homeowner but don't have a garage, and this will be my first NEW car that I would like to daily (currently drive an RSX-S that has been my daily for 6 years). I live in Northern VA so we do get all four seasons and the winters can get brutal (salt, sand, grime). So the question is, if I clear bra and ceramic coat, will I be okay even if I don't have a garage? I guess it would be fine but I just want some input from people who have had more experience with owning and maintaining new cars!

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I live not far away...Pasadena, MD. No garage in this old house of mine, but I do have a huge covered carport attached to my house.
As for the winters, I just clean it as soon as I can and spray down the under part of the car also. I have a car cover (Honda one), but never use it, lol

Mine is outside, too. I didn't get ppf but I did get ceramic coating done. Everything slides right off the car now. Cleaning snow off is a bit of a pain on this car though. Notably on the hatch.

I had a 2004 WRX parked outside in VA and then CA for almost 10 years. The white paint hardly faded at all and I didn't do much to take care of it other than detail a handful of times. It did have a very old generation clearbra PPF that turned yellow and gross after only a few years, but the PPF have probably made improvements since then. My R has XPel Ultimate.