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Re: Outdoor car covers...thoughts
I used to use two on top of each other back when there were times when I parked outside occasionally but I found the cover was lightly marring my paint so I stopped using it. Perhaps today there are marring free fabrics but I'm unaware of them
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If it's raining and you have to go somewhere, where do you put that wet car cover? And to answer your question..I live in a Condo and almost everybody who gets a new car will buy a car cover and it may last a month or two.
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Don't, just don't, especially if you have ANY wind
A tiny bit of sand or dust trapped between the cover and your clearcoat acts like sandpaper
Been there and done that
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Re: Outdoor car covers...thoughts
My experience with the Evolution covers and that ilk (the breathable ones), from a long time ago, is that if they get rained on a fine silt will wash through the cover and deposit on the car.
My situation was a little different in that it was a car that I had outside that I wouldn't drive often, so it would sit under the cover for months at a time. So when I would take it off, you've got this (frequently) wet, dirty cover...and no where to put it really. And you can't really put them in the washing machine, they are too big (maybe these new front loaders or top-loaders with no agitator would fit one, I don't know. I'm sure you can take them to the laundromat.
Anyway, that car/cover is a bad example because it was an old beater. But let's say you put the cover on when you park to keep the sap off, where are you going to put the cover when you go to work in the morning? You've got to be able to keep it clean so you don't inadvertantly drag something back onto the car. There is a whole procedure to rolling the cover so the outside doesn't touch the inside, which if I'm remembering right, means the inside of the cover is on the outside after you roll it up. I had a cover on a garage queen for a while, that I would put in a storage bag after rolling it up, which would keep it clean.
And of course the car needs to be clean when you cover it so you don't get the inside of the cover dirty, etc., which probably isn't a problem for you. I guess you have to decide if cover stress is better than sap stress.
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Re: Outdoor car covers...thoughts
And just to echo everyone that posted while I was writing my dissertation, I also don't use covers anymore, not for ages.
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Re: Outdoor car covers...thoughts
I think I was able to put a Noah cover in the washing machine but it’s not like doing that prevented any marring
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Re: Outdoor car covers...thoughts
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I think I was able to put a Noah cover in the washing machine but it’s not like doing that prevented any marring
Is that the one I had? What is the Evolution? Do I have that wrong, I looked at a picture of a Noah and it looks like the ones I had. I still have the one for that garage queen, I would use it inside under the right conditions, I guess. The other problem with covering the garage queens is getting to the battery to charge.
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Re: Outdoor car covers...thoughts
I think Evolution is a mesh like fabric and Noah is like a nylon fabric
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So Noah is an indoor cover? The place that had the picture of Noah--it looked exactly like the Evolution that they also had, but the Noah was more expensive.
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