Dealing with Dust on "Garage Queen"

[MIsnowman]

[QUOTE=MarkD51;1682665]

Yep that’s a black truck under there.

Not necessarily looking for a cheap solution and certainly not looking for a magic pill. Just wanted to get others’ ideas about what might work or not work to help reduce the amount of dust on the truck. I had thought about bed sheets also, but from past experience on snowmobiles, some dust always manages to get through the sheet.

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That's the problem with a car cover, and no matter how careful you are removing it and installing it, has to be either rolled up, or folded up without the cover then hitting the floor.

Thus when such is done, the outside of the cover, which will likely be as dirty and dusty as your Truck appears to be in the photo will contact and contaminate the inside of the cover no matter how good, or how expensive a cover it is.

Yes, Covercraft does make a specific "Duststop" Cover, and it is no doubt better at restricting pass through of dusts versus my earlier suggestion of lightweight bed sheets.

But if you'll then find a need to then wash that cover every time you remove, and prior to re-installing it, that's going to get old real quick. Plus these large Covers to fit a full size Pickup Truck are not that "small", and one might then find it quite difficult or close to impossible to launder in a regular home sized washing machine.

The heavier duty car covers do get pretty bulky. I found that out with 2 car covers I had-have for my Tahoe, first the Covercraft NOAH, then the Covercraft Weathershield HD. I then resorted to using a used plastic 55 gallon Car Wash Soap Drum with a Ball Cock Drain installed at its bottom for manual hand washing of these Covers. (Cut the top off) Then hanging to air dry because there was no Laundermats in my town that had large enough commercial sized washers and dryers available.

Was why I thought lighter bed sheets would be much easier to deal with as far as laundering was concerned.
Plus the good custom fitted covers are going to cost some good money as well. Likely $500-$600.

Hope some of these thoughts help you.

Yes, very helpful and very good points about trying to launder the cover. I hadn't really thought about that. The only experience I have with any type of covers is on sleds (snowmobiles) and these are obviously much smaller. I think we are thinking along the same lines. I can just envision terrible things happening when trying to remove and install a big bulky car cover. I like the suggestion that many have made about a cheap thin cover and maybe using something soft, maybe microfiber sheets, as the base under the cover.

[JTS]

In my area tree pollen is the cause of dust.

[MarkD51]

[QUOTE=MIsnowman;1682758]

Yes, very helpful and very good points about trying to launder the cover. I hadn't really thought about that. The only experience I have with any type of covers is on sleds (snowmobiles) and these are obviously much smaller. I think we are thinking along the same lines. I can just envision terrible things happening when trying to remove and install a big bulky car cover. I like the suggestion that many have made about a cheap thin cover and maybe using something soft, maybe microfiber sheets, as the base under the cover.

Bob's idea of the Griots Disposable Cover isn't a bad idea.
Being plastic, dusts wont get through, fairly inexpensive if you bought a couple-few to have at times where you cannot perhaps remove the vehicle due to weather conditions-etc.

It could possibly be rinsed down outside if you can maneuver the truck outside carefully, and be re-used.
Otherwise, as the description says, it's a disposable, use once, then toss.

Generally the way I installed and removed a cover, was to roll it up from the front and the back towards the roof, then would wind up on a short ladder to continue rolling it onto the roof. (The Roof Rack somewhat protected the paint from abrasion.) Then I'd drag towards me, and roll it up off the roof.
(It's a lot of cover for a 4-dr Tahoe SUV)

I'd make mental note of how it would then have to be positioned again onto the roof, and then reverse to un-roll. On a slick vehicle, it sure isn't hard to have a cover slide and fall off the vehicle and hit the ground.

Happened to me once, learned the hard way I reckon.