Car Cover Factors to Consider By Ryan Draving At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Buyers place a lot of weight on how well a cover is constructed and how much protection it provides for, say, rain protection. The issue is that they forget it is not simply one factor that needs to be taken into account but a multitude and how they all interact together. More than this, is the utility of the car cover itself because unless you have tried putting a car cover up in a Force Ten wind you are not likely to be thinking of easy it is to manage, fit and take-down your cover when you are using it!

Rain and water are obvious factors to take into consideration when choosing a car cover, but you should note that there is a difference between water-proof water-resistant. Water-proof covers may not allow water to pass through the membrane at all, but this is not a good thing even if it sounds like it ought to be. A cover should allow the air to circulate and breathe because this is what will help prevent the build-up of moisture and in turn the accumulation of mildew. To be effective, the car cover must allow water to pass through the material but very slowly so when it rains or in the event it snows, it falls off the cover before it has chance to pass through it to the paint and bodywork. Conversely, if water is trapped between the cover and the vehicle then it has a chance to pass out by exiting through the car cover which is good news when it comes to protecting your vehicle.

You also need to look at how well the car cover is going to be when it comes to protecting your vehicle from bird poop or tree sap. Bird droppings are extremely corrosive because they contain all kinds of acids and alkali substances which will readily stain your paint job even if left for a few short minutes.

Tree sap is also very messy and extremely difficult to remove from the surface of your vehicle so the car cover must not allow it to pass through to the underlying paint job. The attribute you are looking at here is known as “permeability”, how easy a fabric allows substances to pass through it – ideally you want a low permeability rating because less dirt, dust, poop and sap is going to be able to get through to your vehicle.

Sun protection is essential because bodywork is just as likely to get “sun burnt” as you or I are when we are out in the sun – even when we are wearing clothes. The culprit is the UV rays in the sun’s rays which not only burn your skin but will also create a faded paint job just as fast. Red paint is particularly susceptible and we have all probably seen good examples of how a bright red paint job has been turned to a pink shade in unsightly lines across a car. You need to check the UV rating for the car cover and, just as with sun screen, the higher the rating the higher the protection provided to your paint job.

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