Car cover and SG cure time?

**MiataFan1** · 02-28-2006, 05:39 AM

I normally wait a week between SG applications.

I started using a Sunbrella (custom made to my Miata) car cover several weeks ago.

With my luck a day after fist use of cover we had 35-40 mph winds.

Wound up with several dull marks mostly at seams in cover.

Washed and added another coat of SG.

Should I wait a week before using cover again?

**Accumulator** · 02-28-2006, 10:38 AM

Are you sure you want to keep using the cover, given that it might cause marring in windy conditions? Just a sorta-rhetorical question

IMO the wait time won`t make the SG any more resistant to this kind of damage.

**MiataFan1** · 02-28-2006, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by Accumulator

Are you sure you want to keep using the cover, given that it might cause marring in windy conditions? Just a sorta-rhetorical question

IMO the wait time won`t make the SG any more resistant to this kind of damage.

No I do not. Before I got it I researched this same problem.

Most users of covers said that a custom fit one was less likely to

mar the finish.

I had one back in 1988 and stopped using it for this reason.

That was in Hawaii where the wind rareley stops blowing.

I purchased the second most expensive custom car cover from Autoanything .

And if I got the most expensive the same thing may happen.

I live in the paint killer state... It`s a pain... What to do???? :think:

**Accumulator** · 02-28-2006, 06:36 PM

Heh heh, I really don`t know.

I had custom made covers, used them for years, but I just couldn`t avoid marring the paint with them. I don`t even use them for indoor storage very often. It`s just *so* easy to mar automotive paint....

I will say that using a cover on a white vehicle that`s outside 24/7 can work out OK. The marring from the cover wasn`t as bad as the problems I would`ve had from all the other things that could`ve happened to it. But I couldn`t say the same for silver paint, and no way on anything dark.

**imported_Neothin** · 02-28-2006, 07:35 PM

i use a weathershield HD on my car. Yes, I do get a few swirls here and there but I can look past this because I glaze alot (to hide the swirling) and know that if i didn`t use the cover, the car would look like absolute crap the day after washing. my car stays outside at night and dew forms every night down here in humid florida.

I don`t worry about this cover in the wind. This cover has been through extended hurricane force winds and nothing more than a few light swirls were induced. Granted when the car went through Wilma I put on 2 extra bungee chords to hold everything down tight, but still. IIRC one of the moderators has this cover and his also went through a hurricane with no ill effects.