What is your opinion on car covers? Does it do more harm than good? Any brand of covers you can recommend? Thanks for the videos very informative.
Jack
CoverCraft makes excellent covers, but they are not cheap. I have a ton of customers who keep their vehicles inside climate controlled garages with covers on them and they have no complaints. I've had some that left their cars outside as well and same result. This is in Houston where the weather is pretty much 100% humidity all day, every day.
I've also had some customers use the new car bubble storage option and they like it as well.
Simoniz makes decent car covers. But honestly I wouldn't bother with one. The only time I ever use a car cover is if I have a car that I want to conceal from bylaw.
See response here including which to get:
https://carkiller.com/scottykilmer/qa/car-covers/#post-53480
And of course Scotty’s take on it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u12IPtxAnbw
Car covers suck, … regardless of who makes them and what features they claim to posses. Outdoor and indoor they trap moisture beneath and accelerate rust, … and never mind the claim that some properly designed breath. They don’t! In doors a cheaper substitute is old king-size bed sheet! Perfect shield from the dust. Outdoors carport is the best: keeps sun off, keeps direct rain and snow off, … and wind blows off any moisture off quickly - be it condensation, or driven sideways rain or snow.
F.S.
What about car covers just to put on before it snows so it's faster to get off the next morning? Do they trap moisture and rust too?
Well, … if that’s all you want to do, no trouble. I was thinking maybe you wanted to park it for a while, … or store it? Or something, …
And snow off the car? I just use a brush, … guy next door uses a leaf blower. And a young couple across my street? They just brush off the windshield just a bit and drive out like a bat out of hell, … let the wind blow it off! Mind you, you get a ticket in my city if you don’t clean snow off the widows properly, …
F.S.
Btw, … say you have a fancy-shmancy car cover in a trunk. It’s starting to snow, … so you cover your car. Morning comes and there is 3 inches of snow, covering it. Also, you noticed that one inch of snow, or so, melted initially - when car was still warm, but it is not now, and that melted snow, now, is all ice, … frozen in into the fabric, creases and crannies of the body, and right into windshield wipers ‘n such, … and now you have to deal with that frozen, stiff fabric, snow covered, awkward to fold, cold, … and you have no gloves, and appointment is 10 minutes away, … but also 8 minutes away to drive there. Can you handle that frozen piece of fabric in time? Just sayin’, …
F.S.