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Re: cover

To: Dennis R Clark <clarks@best.com>, tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: cover
From: Steve Laifman <laifman@flash.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 07:36:43 -0700
Sorry for a possible repeat, but my own copy came back with 1 word on it {9-<

Steve Laifman wrote:

> Dennis R Clark wrote:
>
> > Listers,
> >
> > I'm looking for a totally water proof car cover. The Tiger is getting
> > kicked
> > out of the garage it is in. I don't have a hard/soft top yet so I was
> > hoping a water proof cover
> > would work. I know they are out there I have one for my motorcycle.
> > Please
> > email me if you know where I can get my hands on one.
> >
> > Dennis Clark/Doug Clark
>
> Dennis,
>
> There are "drive-in" bags that can be zipped up to completely moth-ball your 
>car.
> This way, not even the wet street will get to the underside.
>
> There are car covers that are water resistant, but most avoid these.  The 
>reason
> being that moisture can get in, and stay in, with humid air.  None, to my
> knowledge, are hermetically sealed.  (You might try a huge polyethylene sheet 
>and
> heat-seal it up.)
>
> The problem is, that when the temperature drops, the moisture content of the 
>air
> reaches the dew point and condenses out.  Because the cover is water-proof, it
> hangs around and rots, or rusts all the surfaces it so easily covers. This 
>happens
> in repeated cycles of humidity, rain, and a warming up of the weather.  
>Something
> that always happens.
>
> Most go for the "let it get wet, let it dry out, and keep the sun away", 
>because
> that's what damages the paint.
>
> Think about it.
>
> Steve
>
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