Storing Guitar in Hot Car

[circuitspore]

I'll start out by saying that I'm way too paranoid to leave my stuff in the car on hot/cold days.

But ..... about a decade ago I worked my day job with a guy that was a heavily gigging bassist on nights and weekends. His primary instrument was an early 60's Fender Jazz with a home-grown oiled natural refin. He left that bass in the trunk of his car, in a generic plywood case, every day of the year. He swore up and down that he very rarely had to do truss rod tweaks. I didn't believe him, so we walked out to his car on our lunch break - on a stanky humid North Carolina summer day, 90+ degrees in the middle of an asphalt parking lot. He pulled it out of the trunk and handed it to me. Played like butter!

Moral of the story: I dunno.

 

[RNV]

I think it depends on your constant environment. If you live in a place that is always has low humidity, then the instrument will do it's thing over time with the drying of the woods and be that way unless subjected to and extreme shift. Like me, I live where it is always very humid and my woods have adjusted to it were if I were to sell it to someone in Arizona, I would suggest letting it "settle" into it's new environment. But then again, I'm a drummer who is playing bass because I was sick of searching for bassists, and drums aren't made of wood at all. 25 years of treating my drums the same way do not apply. Right?