will garage cover hurt a detailed car?

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glen e

Retired Geezer
Not sure where to out this so I'll try here. I have my 09 honda accord completely detailed with blackfire products and under a $60 cloth cover in the garage. It is not weatherproof and seems to me made out the cloth/paper for a garage cover. i will not be using the car until 9/1/12. A few questions:

1. would you leave the windows down underneath the cover?
2. there is not draft or wind, will the cover "print on the finish"?
3. I would rather not have wife take it off while I'm gone, can I just "set and forget"?

thanks!
 
Seems like paper type material will scratch your paint IMO, but a very good quality type of a car cover might not. It's up to you, but if it was me nothing touches the paint.
 
no matter what kinda cover you have my opinion is that whenever you install or remove a cover you risk scratching the paint.
 
If the car is 100% clean and the cover is 100% clean then there is no problem using a soft car cover. I have covered a lot of cars that I have detailed and have never run into any problems. If the car was outside and subject to wind beating, then I wouldn't cover it, but in the stable environment of your garage, you should be fine.

1. would you leave the windows down underneath the cover?
2. there is not draft or wind, will the cover "print on the finish"?
3. I would rather not have wife take it off while I'm gone, can I just "set and forget"?
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1) No. As long as the interior is completely dry, I would leave the windows up. You may want to give the interior a light mist of an deorderizer (I prefer Detailer's Pro Series "New Leather" scent).
2) No.
3) Yes.


FWIW, the "Form Fit" car covers from CoverCraft
are the best Indoor car covers I have ever used. They are similar/identical in design to the factory car covers from Ferrari, which are simply amazing. They feature an extremely soft fleece inner liner.
 
Todd Helme said:
If the car is 100% clean and the cover is 100% clean then there is no problem using a soft car cover. I have covered a lot of cars that I have detailed and have never run into any problems. If the car was outside and subject to wind beating, then I wouldn't cover it, but in the stable environment of your garage, you should be fine.



1) No. As long as the interior is completely dry, I would leave the windows up. You may want to give the interior a light mist of an deorderizer (I prefer Detailer's Pro Series "New Leather" scent).
2) No.
3) Yes.


FWIW, the "Form Fit" car covers from CoverCraft
are the best Indoor car covers I have ever used. They are similar/identical in design to the factory car covers from Ferrari, which are simply amazing. They feature an extremely soft fleece inner liner.
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Thanks Todd - this was my thinking too...it is an autoanything cover fitted for the car and fleece-like on the interior. I think it would scratch if it was going on and off every day, but it is sitting in dead clam and going on once and off once. I'll leave the windows up, which really was my main question, should have said that. I appetite the comments but when taking in my situation, I think some of the suggestions above are a bit over cautious...
 
Glen,

Are you going to use an on demand smart charger for the battery? I certainly agree with Todd....that cover will be just fine, no worries.
 
RTexasF said:
Glen,

Are you going to use an on demand smart charger for the battery? I certainly agree with Todd....that cover will be just fine, no worries.
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Rick - I have a batt maintainer, but will be back in june for a few days and I'll put it on the charger then for a few hours....I do have the neg cable disconnected so no drain whatsoever...
 
glen e said:
Thanks Todd - this was my thinking too...it is an autoanything cover fitted for the car and fleece-like on the interior. I think it would scratch if it was going on and off every day, but it is sitting in dead clam and going on once and off once. I'll leave the windows up, which really was my main question, should have said that. I appetite the comments but when taking in my situation, I think some of the suggestions above are a bit over cautious...
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Nothing wrong with being over cautious.:bigups:bigups:bigups The key is that the cover is completely clean and the car is completely clean (and high quality sealant, of which I'm sure you have many layers of will help the cover slide over the paint).
 
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