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Post by OlafR on Feb 19, 2019 17:27:52 GMT
G'evening gentlemen,
I regularly attend to the monthly Austin Healey club meeting here in my area. Recently I suggested that I could do an omnibus order for car covers from Stanley/Autopyjama (they make, amongst others, the PermaBag and their regular covers are allegedly very good, too). Well, I must say that the company seems to be quite more than a bit arrogant. Beyond that, they offer us a radical 4% discount (they're quite expensive too!), but only if I pay in advance and take over all handling. LOL. Not me.
I'm thus looking for covers, for me as well as for my fellow club members. I suppose there will be loads of manufacturers here in Germany too, of course. However, I need both an indoor and an outdoor cover (for tours only) for my Austin Healey Sprite (MK3) and an indoor cover for the P5B. For the latter I do recall that there was a British manufacturer who sold custom-fitted (bespoke?) covers for the P5B. I've searched high and low, but all I find on the forum is outdoor covers like the Outdoor Carcoon, refs to Hamilton (10% for club members - hey, Stanley!) and the such. Did I miss the right search-result or is it that I've read it elsewhere, like in a Take Five issue?
All pointers appreciated!
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Post by OlafR on Feb 19, 2019 17:41:16 GMT
Oh, and BTW - two of my fellow club folks were interested in a PermaBag.
Does anyone have a PermaBag or an Outdoor Cocoon and would be able/willing to share their experience, maybe even someone who can do a comparison of the two? A PermaBag is available for indoors and outdoors (two separate products), the indoor variant costs, depending on size, around € 700 (~£ 610) and the outdoor variant around €1,000 (~£ 875). The Carcoon seems to generally addressing outdoors. Depending on size prices vary between £445 and £790. |
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Feb 19, 2019 18:27:15 GMT
Oh, and BTW - two of my fellow club folks were interested in a PermaBag.
Does anyone have a PermaBag or an Outdoor Cocoon and would be able/willing to share their experience, maybe even someone who can do a comparison of the two? A PermaBag is available for indoors and outdoors (two separate products), the indoor variant costs, depending on size, around € 700 (~£ 610) and the outdoor variant around €1,000 (~£ 875). The Carcoon seems to generally addressing outdoors. Depending on size prices vary between £445 and £790. I stick my Coupe outside in a Carcoon Olaf and have done for several years, I have a double garage but I know it's better off in the Carcoon   It's outlasted my garden wall planter lol!!  |
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Post by Brendan69 on Feb 20, 2019 10:09:29 GMT
What happens if it gets heavy snow fall on it??? or does it have a frame inside to keep it up??
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Feb 20, 2019 18:57:28 GMT
Oh, and BTW - two of my fellow club folks were interested in a PermaBag.
Does anyone have a PermaBag or an Outdoor Cocoon and would be able/willing to share their experience, maybe even someone who can do a comparison of the two? A PermaBag is available for indoors and outdoors (two separate products), the indoor variant costs, depending on size, around € 700 (~£ 610) and the outdoor variant around €1,000 (~£ 875). The Carcoon seems to generally addressing outdoors. Depending on size prices vary between £445 and £790. They are a family firm Olaf I think they will give a small club discount I will check tomorrow, they do a huge range of products well worth a read it explains how the system works and "not sold" by a well known parts supplier lol!! |
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Post by lagain on Feb 20, 2019 20:18:31 GMT
When I had my Stag repainted many years ago the painter said 'never cover a car' aparantly they spent quite a lot of time stripping and repainting horizontal areas of cars due to microblistering where a damp cover had been touching the body.
A Carcoon, either inside or outside is perfect as it does not touch and it has a controlled environment.
But, yes I do cover my car. I use old 200 thread Percale sheets. They are very thin and keep the dust off.
A friend who lives by the sea in Hove bought a new Triumph motorbike. He, probably foolishly, left it under a cover on the street for the winter. When he took the cover off the bike looked as if it had spent the winter on the sea bed. Absolutely every thing was corroded. Suprisingly the Triumph dealer gave him quite a good price for it and he bought another, I said he could leave it in my garage over winter, but by then it was too late as it was stolen and never seen again, so he gave up biking.
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Feb 20, 2019 20:39:45 GMT
When I had my Stag repainted many years ago the painter said 'never cover a car' aparantly they spent quite a lot of time stripping and repainting horizontal areas of cars due to microblistering where a damp cover had been touching the body. A Carcoon, either inside or outside is perfect as it does not touch and it has a controlled environment. But, yes I do cover my car. I use old 200 thread Percale sheets. They are very thin and keep the dust off. A friend who lives by the sea in Hove bought a new Triumph motorbike. He, probably foolishly, left it under a cover on the street for the winter. When he took the cover off the bike looked as if it had spent the winter on the sea bed. Absolutely every thing was corroded. Suprisingly the Triumph dealer gave him quite a good price for it and he bought another, I said he could leave it in my garage over winter, but by then it was too late as it was stolen and never seen again, so he gave up biking. You are correct George I would never use a car cover the Carcoon doesn't sit on the body work as long as you get the right length!! it has double skin always the same temp inside as out so NO condensation even a 20 watt bulb inside would destroy the integrity! My Coupe is behind Infra Red beams, Alarm 866mhz and Cameras with movement detectors (as is the House) plus it is disabled but there are some Bas*ards about!! |
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Post by OlafR on Feb 27, 2019 11:27:28 GMT
Thanks, gentlemen! Just to make it clear: my cars are sitting in a garage, so the cover is just meant to keep the dust away. And dust we have - we have a gravel driveway, so there's always dust in the air which tends to neatly settle on anything around, including the cars in the garage (you have to open the friggin' gate to drive in and out now, right!).
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Post by Brendan69 on Feb 27, 2019 16:35:23 GMT
Possibly look at sealing up your garage Olafr to keep the dust at bay and if you can install an extractor fan in your garage which comes on and off on a timer.
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Post by OlafR on Mar 1, 2019 8:55:33 GMT
The garage is sealed, even the garage doors (electric) have rubber sealings. But when it's windy, it'll be enough to just open a garage door (electric, takes a bit!), drive in/out and close it again. Often leaves you with a very fine layer of dust.
I could of course install huge fans that start up when the doors open and blow from the back to the doors.  |
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Post by Brendan69 on Mar 1, 2019 13:26:29 GMT
Or re-locate your wife inside with a duster and some polish to hand. Send her in a brew and a biscuit now and then. LOL
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