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Inside or Outside Car?

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Posted by: BBoyd

Do you keep your car parked in a garage or do you keep it parked outside?

For those of you like me who park it outside does anyone have this problem:
My car has been recently waxed, but everytime it rains the rain beads up on my car (even on the windows) but does NOT roll off. The beaded up rain just stays in place even on my windows and just dries up and leaves lots of little spots on my paint and on my windows. This is my biggest pet peeve. Does this happen to anyone else out there, or am I the only guy who does not park his LS in the garage?

p.s.
I still love my LS, I just REALLY hate it when it rains. I also get ticked off at people who's sprinkler systems seemed to be aimed at watering the roads too. I am the type of person who will drive on the other side of the road to avoid someone's sprinkler. I may be a little obsessed...

Posted by: slagburn

Outside but with a good quality cover, takes are of the spotting problem when it drizzles first thing in the morning or the sprinklers hit it. I've also mastered the art of getting the cover on or off in under a minute.

Posted by: stateproperty3423

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Originally Posted by slagburn

Outside but with a good quality cover, takes are of the spotting problem when it drizzles first thing in the morning or the sprinklers hit it. I've also mastered the art of getting the cover on or off in under a minute.

outside car. I was thinking about putting a cover on a car that I drive everyday but i thought everyone would think that i am crazy, knowing some else does it renews my intrest. Slagburn, can you let me know exactly what brand and model cover you have. Oh yeah and how much

Posted by: Dartastic

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Originally Posted by stateproperty3423

Black car outside on a dusty unpaved street. Have a 2 car garage I can barely get a bike into. Im interested in the car cover too.

Posted by: BBoyd

I have a car cover, but it does not hold up that well in the rain. Is your cover water proof?

Posted by: JohnnyBz00LS

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Originally Posted by BBoyd

Do you keep your car parked in a garage or do you keep it parked outside?

For those of you like me who park it outside does anyone have this problem:
My car has been recently waxed, but everytime it rains the rain beads up on my car (even on the windows) but does NOT roll off. The beaded up rain just stays in place even on my windows and just dries up and leaves lots of little spots on my paint and on my windows. This is my biggest pet peeve. Does this happen to anyone else out there, or am I the only guy who does not park his LS in the garage?

p.s.
I still love my LS, I just REALLY hate it when it rains. I also get ticked off at people who's sprinkler systems seemed to be aimed at watering the roads too. I am the type of person who will drive on the other side of the road to avoid someone's sprinkler. I may be a little obsessed...

LOL, I avoid wet gutters while driving like the plague, and not just in my LS.

My LS sits outside year round. I use Zaino, and the only time I have problems w/ water spotting is if there is a slight dust haze on the car and the rain is only a sprinke, just enough to make the car wet and bead. If it rains hard enough to actually cause the beads to get large enough to roll off the car, it takes the dust with it and its like a free carwash!

My biggest gripe w/ parking outside is the crap off the trees (buds, "helicopters", seedlings, leaves, etc) getting down the sides of the cowl. Each year I have to get the crevice tool on my shop vac and open the front doors and suck / scrape the crud that builds up there from this stuff. Even though the fenders are aluminum and is less prone to "rust through", this crap holds moisture there and can't be too good.

Oh yeah, I hate birds too. I used to have a cardinal that would perch on my passenger side mirror and have it's "morning constitutional" all down the side of the mirror and door before it returned to its nest in a nearby tree. I tried swapping parking spots w/ my truck, and the bird did the same thing to my truck. So I impaled a small, bright yellow stuffed toy on my truck's antenna and that was enough to scare the cardinal off. Since then, I lost the yellow toy when I forgot to remove it before taking off. I also moved my bird bath to that corner of the garage and it seems to have attracted the cardinal away from the car, so I haven't had that problem anymore.

Posted by: didjital|

Garage Car along with every other toy I've had.

Posted by: TaraLS

I keep mine under a carport. It stays covered, but I have a gravel drive to get to my house, so it still gets dirty.

Posted by: JohnnyB

My LS is garaged 90% of the time it's parked at home. Partly because my Crown Vic won't fit in my little 1 car garage-yeah, like i'd park the Vic in it over the LS anyway; and I'm not letting my GF park her cheap

Corolla in there over the LS either.

Posted by: slagburn

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Originally Posted by JohnnyBz00LS

My biggest gripe w/ parking outside is the crap off the trees (buds, "helicopters", seedlings, leaves, etc) getting down the sides of the cowl. Each year I have to get the crevice tool on my shop vac and open the front doors and suck / scrape the crud that builds up there from this stuff. Even though the fenders are aluminum and is less prone to "rust through", this crap holds moisture there and can't be too good.

All that combined with the car being a 2nd vehicle are the reasons I keep mine under a cover.

The cover I'm using isn't water proof however it is water resistant and breathable meaning that it will keep pretty much everything off of the car except the heavy and extended rains, in those cases it dries quickly and doesn't leave much behind.

I can't find the paperwork on my cover but I think it's the custom fitted evolution series from carcoversdirect.com, about $160 or so.

Posted by: itsnotmydaddys

mine stays outside at all times, live with my parents and the garage is packed full of junk.

WE SHOULD FIND SOMEONE INTERESTED IN A GROUP BUY FOR CAR COVERS. ANYONE KNOW HOW WE COULD GO ABOUT THIS, MAYBE KEN DO U KNOW HOW TO GET THIS GOING

Posted by: stateproperty3423

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Originally Posted by itsnotmydaddys

mine stays outside at all times, live with my parents and the garage is packed full of junk.

WE SHOULD FIND SOMEONE INTERESTED IN A GROUP BUY FOR CAR COVERS. ANYONE KNOW HOW WE COULD GO ABOUT THIS, MAYBE KEN DO U KNOW HOW TO GET THIS GOING

count me in 100%...is this so we can get the covers cheaper

Posted by: JES_LS

Well since the LS is my wife's car (for now) and she gets home at all hours, is parked outside.

Maybe when I get the approval to expand the 1 car Shed (and the call it a garage) back to the historical carriage building that is about 2.75 cars and the drive way poured in concrete it will get garaged.

Posted by: JES_LS

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Originally Posted by JohnnyBz00LS

I don't have that problem, but the yellow tree pollen is really bad this year, I just gave the GT a quick wash the other day and it is already Green(yellow pollen on black car = ugly green). I also noticed that its time to wax all the cars again.

Posted by: ohioLS

My baby sets inside under a indoor car cover.
Even at work she sets under a car port.

-Scott-

Posted by: luckieleo

mines garage kept at home, but at work its in a standard parking lot, prone to all sorts of bird

, dust, truck exhaust, and little tree sheddings (cotton, pollen, helicopters, etc...)

this weekend i spent an hour washing my car, i go back to work on tuesday, i get out & theres sand/sawdust all over everyones freshly cleaned cars. (they were doing some construction across the street)

and those of you who live in the chicago area know about damn construction & having to drive over gravel & drive thru dust flying over everything. makes me MAD!!!