biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 20/02/23 12:12 AM Author Share Posted 20/02/23 12:12 AM Yea I'll defs share my thoughts on it when it arrives Over the weekend I went searching the small patch of grass that is council maintianed next to where I park. This image from my IC install thread shows it well. Parents lawn is before the pedestrian path, small patch after that just next to the parking bay is council. Anyway, found 3 pop-ups on this patch of grass and rotated the pricks 180, so now we'll have a perfectly clean pathway and not a weekly bore water car wash I'd like to feel bad for what I've done, but for some reason I can't find any part of me that does 🤷♂️ And, with this completely solving my issue, I'm having second thoughts on the car cover 🤣 I can still use it to keep dew off the car, I suppose. But putting a car cover on it every night sounds like I'm just waiting for trouble. All that's needs to happen is some sand to stick to the paint, and then I'm fked when I put the cover on. The cover itself won't (at least it shouldn't) scratch the paint, its the crap that's on the car that will. So, if I wash the car and put the cover on it'd be fine, but after a trip to work and back a few times, and its probably going to have some sh*t on it that will rub.... I'll ponder more when its arrives though. Should be this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,040 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 20/02/23 12:15 AM Share Posted 20/02/23 12:15 AM just put the car cover on after you wash it (and after you take photos, of course ) easy enough what is the whole "bore water" thing in Perth anyway? is it to assist with street cleaning or something? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 20/02/23 12:17 AM Author Share Posted 20/02/23 12:17 AM Yea that's fine, but I drive it every day. that's my issue. After a few days it'll gather crap on the paint that is abrasive, and I can't put the cover over that. So a cover that is over $250 that will only be used once a week is probably not worth it... I think the solution is to just buy another car 🤷♂️🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 22/02/23 09:00 AM Author Share Posted 22/02/23 09:00 AM Well car cover arrived, and to say I'm dissapointed in the quality is an understatement. How they have so many 5 star reviews is beyond me. 5 layers my farking arse. The "fleece" inner lining is not what you'd think. I imagined the inner lining to be like a 500gsm type microfiber cloth layer. Nope. Its so rough its like bloody sand paper. There is no way this is worth anywhere near $260!!! The thing is soooo thin!!! Actually unbelievable Putting it back in the box and sending this crap back. What a waste! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 15,972 Member For: 9y 10m 19d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 22/02/23 11:38 AM Share Posted 22/02/23 11:38 AM That is ghey and not in the good way. You are a handy man and I'm sure you can learn to sew. Go to Big W, get a few doonas/quilts, sew 3 or 5 of them long ways, so the short ends make the length of the car. That'll give you the hail protection. Then go to spotlight, buy yourself some material to cover it, measure and cut that bitch to length and again, sew it onto it. Spray the living fark out of it with scotch guard or mebbe there is a suitable other waterproof layer that is also soft af to protect the paint, I'm not up to date with the latest fabrics. Man I'm pretty sure you can make your own fully sick car cover for the same price as your pos one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,040 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 22/02/23 02:15 PM Share Posted 22/02/23 02:15 PM I didn't actually want to be right in my skepticism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unforgiven Member 119 Member For: 17y 10m 25d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 22/02/23 04:54 PM Share Posted 22/02/23 04:54 PM 7 hours ago, biddie_fiddler said: Well car cover arrived, and to say I'm dissapointed in the quality is an understatement. How they have so many 5 star reviews is beyond me. 5 layers my farking arse. The "fleece" inner lining is not what you'd think. I imagined the inner lining to be like a 500gsm type microfiber cloth layer. Nope. Its so rough its like bloody sand paper. There is no way this is worth anywhere near $260!!! The thing is soooo thin!!! Actually unbelievable Putting it back in the box and sending this crap back. What a waste! That's very disappointing. I'd hate to see how bad the cheaper covers which actually had poor reviews are! 😳 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezy2Confuze Member 898 Member For: 15y 2m 2d Gender: Male Location: West Perth. Posted 23/02/23 01:19 AM Share Posted 23/02/23 01:19 AM I got one of the autotecnica covers in 2015 and it's been great (apparently Repco do them but I got them from another site at the time https://www.repco.com.au/en/brands/autotecnica/c/1379177829?q=%3Arelevance%3Alevel2Category%3A1862918247) The only issue I have is the soft inner liner tends to attract the pine needles from the next door's tree's like the proverbial on a bunnies fur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 23/02/23 01:21 AM Author Share Posted 23/02/23 01:21 AM I was going to take photos of it but I was so annoyed I just chucked it back in the box and taped it up again. They've given me a return address, they'd offered $35 off before but that still won't cut it. They have nearly 300 reviews, and average 4.9 stars. Most of the reviews are one offs, as in that is the only review that person has ever done. Red flag I should have caught from the beginning. I can't actually find any google reviews that have attached photos of the product. There is a custom car cover mfg based in Australia called "Autralian Car Covers". They had a single bad review but it was actually for the "Australia Car Covers"!! Its since been edited because they realised they had reviewed the wrong company. The photos on there shows the most expensive car cover https://g.co/kgs/wftjJc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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