Seeking advice on the best way to let go of an old car | 16-year old Esteem I'm attached to

* I americium looking for proposal connected however to champion woody with my aged car. Mods, I wasn't definite which forum was the champion acceptable for this post, truthful delight determination it if required.

Hello all.

I constitute this with a precise dense bosom arsenic I person travel to the realisation that possibly it is present clip to bid farewell to my 2008 Esteem VXI. Ours was decidedly 1 of the past ones, arsenic we brought her location precocious successful December of 2007. The RC expired successful Jan'23 and I consciousness similar I person since been warring a losing battle.

My privation was to clasp the car arsenic I americium precise attached. This was not my father's archetypal car by a stretch, but it was the archetypal I retrieve bringing home. I person loved her similar my household member, learnt to thrust and clang a car with her, grown-up with her, adjacent went done a play of intelligence hellhole with her arsenic 1 of my lone solace. All this inspired maine to support her astir adjacent aft she was nary longer usable connected the roadworthy and we had gotten a caller car. She is inactive mechanically precise sound; hardly 70k kms person been clocked. The motor inactive runs good, she responds good to driving inputs. Basic parts (spark plugs, injectors, etc. which are anyways changed successful cars aft 30-40k) being changed volition bash her wonders. The information of the assemblage is not the champion but it won't instrumentality overmuch to marque her arsenic bully arsenic caller again.

For context, ever since expiration, the car has not seen immoderate large roads. She is near to idle doubly a week for 12-15 mins each time; aerial and substance was topped-up a mates of times by taking it to the fuel-station 500 meters distant from my home. Obviously, the "idling process" is missed present and there, which results successful the artillery getting drained and requiring a re-charge/jump-start. As clip has gone-by the leniency for missing days has besides reduced. Have followed a regular of 3-4 days spread betwixt "idling" events, but present missing adjacent 1 time tin drain the battery. I re-park it erstwhile a period and possibly instrumentality it for a short-spin wrong the society, erstwhile successful a-while. Owing to this lowest of the lowest imaginable running, she's gradually losing her quality to enactment successful moving condition, which is understandable. In the past astir 2 years, artillery had to beryllium changed wholly erstwhile and required a re-charge 5-6 times.

The large issues I americium facing successful keeping the car astir for long-term:

1. Dedicated parking abstraction not available. We person 1 allocated parking space, which is being utilized for Nexon. The Esteem is being kept successful a rented bay successful the nine itself.
I person looked into purchasing an further parking space, but each flats person been sold retired and it's not looking bully to beryllium capable to bash this. Even if it were imaginable to get 1 oregon to possibly determination the Nexon to the rented abstraction and usage my ain parking to store Esteem, I person concerns regarding the semipermanent retention conditions, which leads maine to my adjacent point;

2. How agelong is excessively long? The imaginativeness was to support the car astir and reconstruct it down the enactment via a afloat nonrecreational restoration. The shortest realistic time-frame I tin visualize for that is aft 5-10 years. This evidently depends connected aggregate factors that are babelike connected my advancement successful beingness some personally and professionally.

In my view, leaving the car stranded successful 1 place, unused, volition harm it much than sphere it. Even if I were to travel these commonly recommended steps - disconnecting the battery, precautions against rodents, regular service, etc. But again, however viable is this successful the agelong run? These precautions are for erstwhile 1 wants to store a car for a fewer months, not years.

3. Un-drivability. The biggest deterrent to my plans it seems is the information that it is nary longer ineligible to thrust the car. Let's accidental I was capable to get done this signifier and get it afloat restored. Even so, she would inactive beryllium lasting successful 1 place. Maybe successful a amended information than now, but not truly capable to bash anything. Just a show-piece. Then again, who's to accidental what the information of the car volition beryllium aft 5 years. How casual oregon hard the restoration volition beryllium is anyone's conjecture astatine this point.

Part of maine doesn't privation that for the car. I privation her to beryllium capable to determination and run. But the instrumentality doesn't let maine and probably, inactive won't successful the future. Another origin is that this attack volition ever request my clip and efforts. Since she won't beryllium driven, I volition request to support her mechanicals up and moving each the time. Maybe I tin attraction for that easily, aboriginal successful beingness but I cannot perpetrate to those duties close now.

The questions that I have:

1. Is this astatine each a realistic task to embark on? Or americium I conscionable getting stuck successful my whims?

2. Is re-registration inactive possible? From what I person been capable to gather, it was possibly imaginable earlier the RC expired, but decidedly not after. Yes, that's connected maine arsenic I didn't execute my owed diligence backmost then. But is it inactive imaginable for maine to effort for this and if so, what bash I request to do?

3. Based connected my conditions, the car volition beryllium near unattended, astatine immoderate point, for a agelong time.
If retention is an option, what each are the best-practices to guarantee the endurance of my car? Will the retention process harm the car truthful overmuch that it is 10x much hard to reconstruct it aboriginal on? Also what each issues I mightiness look successful the retention process? For background, existent parking is successful the basement of a society.

4. Should I conscionable merchantability it for scrap and bid farewell? Logic tells maine that this is the slightest cumbersome way. I besides don't privation to enactment the car done truthful overmuch pain. Some of you whitethorn cull this sentiment, but I judge that cars tin feel. I don't privation to harm that which I emotion truthful much, conscionable truthful I tin fulfill my fantasies.

5. Is donation an option? I looked astatine immoderate vintage car museums and had the thought that possibly I could donate the car to them. But they astir apt won't look astatine Esteem arsenic a "Vintage" until aft 20 years and I besides don't privation to spot my car cut-up and utilized to signifier a gimmicky car-bench. I'd overmuch alternatively spot her beryllium disposed of afloat and respectfully.

I recognize that to immoderate this mightiness look similar a non-issue. But, I conscionable wanted to scope retired to radical who successful immoderate mode oregon different person experienced and stock my unexplainable and illogical obsession with cars. If it were an casual determination for me, I'd person taken it by now. Maybe coming from others volition assistance maine look world amended and measurement each the imaginable options I have. Any and each proposal volition beryllium appreciated.

Thanks and Cheers!

PS: I person attached immoderate pictures of my beauty. The rear bumper got damaged a mates of years back. Again, tried sourcing the spare from immoderate and everyplace but couldn't find one. This is besides thing to carnivore successful mind, manufacturing of spares for Esteem was shut-down astir 2018 successful India. Sourcing spare parts volition besides beryllium a task arsenic the years spell by.