Rev up your engines, today I'm going to tell you the truth about
car covers, now if you park your car under trees like
I do and the birds are crapping all over the place,
well you could cut down the trees but I like the oxygen and shade, so why not try a car
cover, you could just hide you car from the elements,
they're pretty easy to put on, this one has little mirror side ones so you know the mirrors
go here, and over here,
then you get the front strap and snap it on, and tighten it up so it doesn't blow off,
then do the same in the back, snap it on and then tighten it up,
now this cover is made by a small company and it's cheap only $39.99, and it's actually
made for a large car and I put it on a small Celica just to show how it works,
but of course if you're going to buy a cover for your car,
you need to know which one to get and that depends on what are you planning on doing
with the cover, for example this is a very lightweight cover,
hardly weighs anything, I don't know maybe a pound and a half or something for the whole
thing, it's not going to go through strong weather for very long,
other people who bought it said, oh I loved it at first but after 3 or 4 months it got
rips and tears and it even started leaking if it was in an area where it rained a lot,
even though it says it's water proof, over time this thin stuff is going to crack and
leak, and that's just the way it goes if you're buying a $39 car cover,
now lets say you got a car that you're storing indoors in a garage,
it perfect for that it will keep all the dust and everything out,
there's nothing wrong with that, or lets say you're going camping or going to a friends
house out in the woods that has trees everywhere, you can just leave it in your trunk and then
put in on and use it every once in a while, it's not some permanent car cover you can
buy that's going to last for years and years, it's just too thin,
which is perfect if you just want to throw something in your trunk that doesn't take
up much space, doesn't weigh much, then you can use it in emergency situations,
or like I said indoors, but if want a serious one there you're going to leave a car outdoors
for extended periods of time, you're going to have to buy a custom made one if you really
want it to last, now if you want a serious car cover, you're
starting pretty much $200 and up for a decent one, this one says $171 but most are going
to be over $200, you want to get one that's well made, where you pick your vehicle's year
make and model, but in my case, I paid $350 for this entire
Celica, I certainly not going to spend $350 for a cover to put over it, that would just
be crazy, now with this inexpensive cover, you don't
have to worry about grommets scratching anything because there aren't any, you can see the
ties are just sewed into the material, it going to fall apart eventually but you don't
have to worry about it scratching anything, everything is soft here so you're not going
to ruin the paint or anything, but on a higher end ones,
you want to check out what kind of grommets they use,
if they got steel or brass grommets, hey they can scratch your paint, the good ones use
soft plastic or leather, you don't want to have metal grommets because you're pulling
this thing on and off and if you pull it off and there's metal parts, it could scratch
your paint, and yes it may sound insane but there are actually are companies out there
overseas that are making car cover and they have brass or metal eyelids in them and then
you pull them up and down you're going to scratch the paint, so certainly don't buy
one of those, now lightweight ones like these do have an
advantage, they're really easy to take on and take off,
you can easily do it as a one man operation, the really fancy one you're better off doing
it with two people so you can stretch it out, make it fit just perfectly, but hey this is
a generic pretty much one size fits all, so it's pretty easy to get them on and off compared
to the more expensive ones, which are of course going to protect them better but it's not
something you're just going to stick in the trunk and forget about it and put it on in
an emergency when you want one, so in that respect, these lightweight ones,
hey think of them as a poncho, if you're going to the woods or something and you got a lightweight
poncho and it starts to rain, hey you can put it on and use it a few times,
but if you're going into the deep woods for months,
you're going to get yourself a serious rain coat, not just a little poncho, you're going
to get something that thick, that's going to protect better and last a long time, but
of course you're going to pay more for it so, it's you're choice, you can decide what
you want to do, but since this is mechanic Monday, I'm giving away one of these lightweight
ones, and to have a chance to win, just place a
clean non-offensive comment on the YouTube comments below, and the winner will be chosen
randomly by a computer to get a nice lightweight car cover to keep junk off your car when you
don't want it on, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos,
remember to ring that bell!