Summer Starts With Car Covers

Unfortunately the summer that we love so much, can prove to be quite detrimental to cars parked outside. The unfiltered sun's rays are extremely harmful, and can literally damage the car.

Ultra violet rays from the sun are stronger and more powerful than ever due to global warming. These rays beta down fiercely on cars and are totally merciless. The rays bleach the exterior of the cars, and melt the finish. Thus vehicles are left looking like faded rags before long.

In addition, when the sun beats down on cars, their exterior gets overheated. This could ruin their internal specs as well as making it unbearable stuffy and claustrophobic to drive in.

Summer is known to be probably the most dusty time of year. For some reason, cars seem to get the brunt of it all, and get covered in layers upon layers of the stuff. This, of course is unsightly, and requires many hours of cleaning.

Summer is also bird season. Birds migrate to the warm climates, and tend to leave their visiting card on every car they pass. These patches of bird's muck, and tree sap too, are awful! They look disgusting, and they are virtually impossible to remove. One can spend literally hours!

Sunbrella is the key to all problems. It covers the car and protects it from any of these summer nuisances, ensuring that the car remains pristine clean at all times.

The Sunbrella car cover is manufactured by Covercraft. They are known worldwide for their wide selection of quality covers for all types of vehicles, not just cars. Covercraft make the Sunbrella cover from acrylic fibres woven together to form a natural resistance to ultra violet rays. Natural resistance means that the cover is much more durable than if it was treated. This is because the resistance will not fade with time and use, it will last forever!

Sunbrella car covers also provide protection to water, rain and the like, albeit at a much lower degree. This is done so that no one is ever caught out with the occasional spring showers.

Covercraft made the Sunbrella cover with resistance to the growth of rot and mildew in most environments. This is good as it prevents the car from becoming mouldy whilst covered.

Naturally, when a car is covered, it does not fall prey the many stains such as dust, dirt, birds droppings, and the rest. The cover acts as a shield, and the car can remain spotlessly clean at all times.

Since Covercraft care about their customers, they have made Sunbrella in five fabulous colours, ensuring that the car looks flashy even whilst covered. Customers can choose from Pacific Blue, Sky Blue, Cadet Grey, Jet Black or Toast. All five are extremely classy and handsome, and are sure to make the car look awesome.

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Protecting Your Classic Car From Wicked Winter Weather or the Hot Summer Sun

Prior to retirement, I ran a mobile car washing and detailing company. I can recall many of our classic car customers wanted their cars washed and detailed, and a special detail prior to putting them into storage to protect them from the elements. Our franchisees dealing in colder climates gave each of their customer's cars a complete full detail and wax prior to the owners putting a cover over them and storing them for the winter.

In areas such as Florida, Scottsdale, and the Palm Springs area, our franchisees would detail the cars in late spring, as the snowbirds went back home and then they would park the cars in a climate controlled facility. There was an interesting article the other day in the Palm Desert Sun which featured a small business owner that owns a climate controlled facility called; The Vault. The article appeared in the "It's My Business" section and was titled; "Safe, Climate-Controlled Place to Store a Vehicle" by Cathy Strong.

The owner recommended that vehicles these stored at temperatures between 78 and 81 degrees at all times in a humidity-free environment, as this protects the leather, paint, and wood. Yes, that would be my experience as well, and by keeping it indoors, the tires would also be in good shape. And speaking of tires I can recommend that a car be put up on blocks, so it does even better, as does not to ruin the tires if they become deflated over the long storage period.

Just putting a vehicle in any type of storage can be a serious mistake especially in Arizona or the California desert where the interior temperatures of some storage units can heat up like ovens. Realize, that in some places in Arizona the temperature never gets below 100-degrees for weeks on end even in the middle of the night. An antique car just can't handle that, and you're liable to ruin the paint, the plastic, wood, and all the rubber inside the car, outside the car, and in the engine compartment.

If the vehicle is kept in the proper type of storage area at the right temperature, then it is just a matter of giving it a light rinse, and a terrycloth towel dry, and perhaps another coat of wax when it's time to pull it out again. There is a right way and a wrong way to store a vehicle, and you could seriously be hurting the value of your automobile, and over time watch it deteriorate to the point where it isn't worth anything if you don't pay attention to the details. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,850 articles by July 4, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off now..

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