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Jack
01-05-11, 02:26 PM
Is it possible to get a car cover, either clear (i.e. see through) or one with windows in?

Reason I ask is Hayley's residents parking area has a line of trees next to it. In winter, your car gets covered in concrete bird sh!t, and in summer you get an inch of sticky tree sap and then a layer of bird crap. A car cover would protect our cars BUT as its permit parking, you need to be able to see the permits in the windows for when the wardens come round every couple hours...

Any ideas? Or should I just get a normal one and knife a section out and duct tape in some clear plastic roughly where the corner of the windscreen is lol

mowgli
01-05-11, 02:32 PM
http://fastcarcovers.com/

you could become the uk agent... or find a parking space not under trees & walk a bit....

Connor
01-05-11, 02:36 PM
cut the trees down :d

mowgli
01-05-11, 02:40 PM
you can severely beat a person & get a community order, but chop someone elses tree down, you'll probably get prison time...

Edd
01-05-11, 02:50 PM
Or just cut a ring round taking the bark off, about 5cm wide and soak a little petrol in :d

My dad done this, had fire wood for a few winters lol

Tbh I've never seen a car cover with windows, duct tape and plastic sheet is probably the way forward

Connor
01-05-11, 03:07 PM
you can severely beat a person & get a community order, but chop someone elses tree down, you'll probably get prison time...
so crazy but yet so true.

Jack cant you get a gezebo style cover to go on it?

88ESR
01-05-11, 03:24 PM
you can severely beat a person & get a community order, but chop someone elses tree down, you'll probably get prison time...

It was about a grand per tree in the mid 90s...;)

Jack
01-05-11, 04:32 PM
Jack cant you get a gezebo style cover to go on it?
No, as its roadside parking (basically a row pf parallel bays down two streets), so a gazeebo would encroach on the road a tad lol


http://fastcarcovers.com/

you could become the uk agent... or find a parking space not under trees & walk a bit....
That cover would be ideal :d might see if I can find a UK supplier, or if they'll ship to UK. Can't imagine postage would be THAT expensive, as unless its real heavy duty stuff it won't be tooo heavy.

As for walking - no can do, the permits only cover three roads (and we've been told by a parking warden that one of those is private parking so we can't even park there lol) and there's no other local long term parking. In fact the places the permits cover are also pay & display bays with room for less than 20 cars, so if they're all full then we have nowhere local to park!

Connor
01-05-11, 06:45 PM
No, as its roadside parking (basically a row pf parallel bays down two streets), so a gazeebo would encroach on the road a tad lol




Erm ignore me lol

Novasport
01-05-11, 09:55 PM
http://www.astral-packaging.co.uk/files/Image/Household%20Disposables/Cling-Film-12%27.jpg

MK999
01-05-11, 10:45 PM
http://www.astral-packaging.co.uk/files/Image/Household%20Disposables/Cling-Film-12%27.jpg

Best applied to a car 6ft in the air on a fork lift, the keys to which someone has gone home with lol

AlexW
01-05-11, 10:53 PM
Car cover will wreck the paint

MK1_Ben
01-05-11, 11:23 PM
Car cover will wreck the paint

Unless you get a decent one, which will be designed not to :)

16v Nova Kev
01-05-11, 11:44 PM
move house?

Jack
01-05-11, 11:59 PM
Don't get her started, apparently we're already moving in to Blandford lol

Car cover will wreck the paint
Can't be worse than concreted bird shoite and all the pointing dust that has now scratched the crap out of my paint though :(