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A guy at the Hershey swap meet showed me his desiccant trick and it saved my trunk
I was at the big Hershey swap meet back in October poking around a guy's booth when he noticed me eyeing his old Fiat. He popped the trunk and showed me he keeps two big bags of desiccant in there all winter, plus a bag of charcoal briquettes in a mesh tray. I've had rust popping up in my trunk floor for two seasons now, so I tried it in my barn storage spot and checked last week, bone dry. I used to think a car cover was enough but apparently not for a damp barn in PA. Anyone else running desiccant in their stored cars, and how often do you swap it out?
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the_lucas25d ago
Two bags of desiccant plus charcoal briquettes seems like overkill for a trunk, unless the car is sitting in a pond. Metal doesn't rust just from air, it needs standing moisture or steady damp, and if your trunk floor was already getting rot then a cover was never the real problem, water was getting in somewhere. You could put a hundred pounds of desiccant in there and it won't stop a leaky seal or a clogged drain. Fix the source and save your money.
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