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Post by alf on Dec 12, 2023 17:03:52 GMT
It's a lovely colour combo indeed and would suit my drive well :-) You are a total masochist choosing this time of year for your annual wash.... I debated cleaning the Alfa at the weekend, then took it out for a 50 min blat yesterday and its totally covered in cack so I'm glad I did not. That said I havw the day off tomorrow and may wash both of them and proof the hood of the Porsche, joining you in the pointless car licking club. Hopefully yours stays clean in town
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 13, 2023 16:15:39 GMT
It's a lovely colour combo indeed and would suit my drive well :-) You are a total masochist choosing this time of year for your annual wash.... I debated cleaning the Alfa at the weekend, then took it out for a 50 min blat yesterday and its totally covered in cack so I'm glad I did not. That said I havw the day off tomorrow and may wash both of them and proof the hood of the Porsche, joining you in the pointless car licking club. Hopefully yours stays clean in town Like I said, I needed to put the anti-fox cover back on it, and that requires the car to be clean. Can't remember if I said, but I had a bit of a nightmare with the outdoor cover that Porsche Tequipment supplies, because although it's bespoke-shaped to the Macan, it's just a thin single-layer plastic sheet with no soft inner lining, which quickly resulted in terrible scuffing marks wherever it rested against the car. I made a great fuss and eventually West London Porsche agreed to (a) refund me and (b) mop and polish the car for me to get rid of the scuff marks. I did feel that I was possibly being a bit precious but when I took it in and they put it in the special polishing bay which was lit with very unforgiving bright lights, the service manager quickly said "ah yes, that's pretty shocking". So I now have a new cover, ordered from Classic Additions, which after a PCGB discount cost more or less what Porsche refunded me for their cover. It's made from an entirely different material - a sort of stretchy neoprene similar to a wet suit. Let's see. So far it seems much more resistant to fox claws (and the dirty footprints show they've been up there already multiple times) than the multi-layer Coverzone one I had for the BMW, the outer waterproof layer of which used to eventually tear and therefore cause the cover to lose its water-proofing. Plus it has well designed straps, so it doesn't seem to be billowing in wild weather or causing any scuffs. The new cover also has the advantage of just being plain grey - the one Porsche supplied was silver with a huge Porsche badge and lettering on the bonnet, which was a bit unnecessary.
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Post by Tim on Dec 14, 2023 8:29:32 GMT
That's pretty poor from Porsche.
I got a cover from Specialised Covers for the M5 and it has a nice soft inner lining. The car was sat outside for a few months in all weathers and some high winds and there are no scuff marks at all anywhere on the car.
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Post by Martin on Dec 14, 2023 9:59:52 GMT
It is really poor in terms of the quality of the cover, but rectifying it properly without quibble rather than just refunding the cost of the cover is decent service and what I’d expect from Porsche.
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Post by alf on Dec 14, 2023 11:45:46 GMT
That is poor! I never know whether covers are a good idea, I googled it a lot for the Boxster and most people said don't bother - they scratch the car! I have a half cover for the cabin only, but even then it traps moisture underneath it, I tend to only use it in really frosty weather as I'm not a fan of opening doors with frameless windows when the top of the window is stuck to the car with ice and you are pulling the bottom of it away with the door. Surely sometimes the window breaks before the ice does...
Sounds like poor quality from the Porsche cover, and yes for whatever reason you can see small scratches really easily under bright artificial lighting...
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Post by Tim on Dec 14, 2023 12:12:52 GMT
The Specialised one for the M5 was about £300 but is an all weather indoors/outdoors one.
I made a very special effort on cleaning the car before the cover went on to try to avoid scratches but where I stay is exposed, surrounded by fields and windy so I was concerned about dirt getting under the cover but it seems the car remained clean.
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Post by PG on Dec 14, 2023 15:05:22 GMT
I had an all weather cover for the XFR. If you cleaned the car so you could put it on, it was such a faff to take it off (it never folded up easily back into the storage bag) than the car got used even less than it normally did. And as soon as you used the car, you could not put the cover back on as the car was no longer clean enough. In the end I just left the cover off and cleaned any bird cack off every few days.
So unless you are going to store a car for a few months and don't intend to use it, I'd not bother with a cover.
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Post by Martin on Dec 14, 2023 15:17:32 GMT
I had an all weather cover for the XFR. If you cleaned the car so you could put it on, it was such a faff to take it off (it never folded up easily back into the storage bag) than the car got used even less than it normally did. And as soon as you used the car, you could not put the cover back on as the car was no longer clean enough. In the end I just left the cover off and cleaned any bird cack off every few days. So unless you are going to store a car for a few months and don't intend to use it, I'd not bother with a cover. Or have foxes that party on your car every day……although I’d probably just move house
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Post by racingteatray on Dec 14, 2023 15:20:34 GMT
I agree but I haven't found any way of dissuading the ever-growing local fox population from using my car as part of their local vulpine superhighway, so it's either faff with the cover or risk deep scratches from scrabbling foxes with muddy paws and non-retractile claws.
So far this sort of neoprene-type material doesn't seem to cause condensation to form underneath.
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