Car cover and SG cure time?

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MiataFan1

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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?
 
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.
 
Accumulator said:
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.
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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:
 
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.
 
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.
 
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