quattro digest, Vol 1 #4573 - Car Cover recomendations

[Larry C Leung]

> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:08:33 -0500
> From: TM <t44tq at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Car cover recommendations?
> To: S-Car-List <s-car-list at audifans.com>,
>         Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>
>
> Can anyone recommend a good car cover for all-season use outdoors?
>
> I'm looking at the Covercraft Noah as it seems to be a good
> price/performance value. The Stormguard is too much, nearly
> $300 and I haven't looked at too many others- nearly all of the
> vendors seem to resell Covercraft.
>
> Also, any suggestions on the best vendor? AJ-USA seems to have
> the best price I've found so far- around $165 for the Noah.
>
> Taka

Taka,

My cover is from Covercraft (reseller, don't recall the vendor other than
they were from the R&T classifieds and were from Texas, based upon
best price) and is of Evolution 3 fabric. It is durable and soft (it's
the
triple layer fabric) but it is also bulky and takes awhile to dry out.
The
outer surface is also starting to pill after about 3.5 years of year
round
service, on a 5 yr warrantee. I paid about $180. I think next time, I'd
go for Noah, as it is lighter, offers the same level of protection, and
dries out much quicker, and takes up about 1/3 the storage space. I
picked Evo 3 b/c at the time of purchase, my parking situation was
pretty close and I was worried about door dings. IMHO, in spite of the
thickness of the cloth, I don't think that the Evo 3 could stop a
determined
Door Slugger, hence I wouldn't bother with it again.

LL - NY