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Old 14th October 2019, 08:13   #1
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Default Paint damage from car cover.

I put a cover on my Royal Blue Rover 75 after it passed its MOT in July. The car is outside and I had not used it since. Took the cover off on Saturday and found lots of variegated white patches on roof, boot lid and bonnet evidently where moisture had collected. It was very obvious that these were not going to T-Cut or polish out.

So I had a cup of tea and Googled and came across advice that warming the paint up with a heatgun "as much as you dare" might fix it. Extraordinary, I thought. I didn't dare very much much, but thought about it a bit and went out with a full kettle of newly boiled water. Pouring slowly over each patch to allow it to reach the temperature of the boiled water - patience is needed, it took about a minute for each patch - the paintwork returned to its original colour and white patches disappeared.

I thought I would share this in case anyone not aware.

The cover will not be used again. I can live with cleaning leaves off.
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Old 14th October 2019, 08:25   #2
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A friend of mine had similar trouble after having a car cover on his for a couple of months.
He had white patches and blisters all over his car.
We thought that he would need to get the car fully resprayed, but, after a further two months with no car cover on, allowing the paint to "breathe" all slowly returned to normal.

The blistering was that bad, it looked like his car had leprosy or something!
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Old 4th November 2019, 10:01   #3
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An update on this. After less than 3 weeks in the open, often wet from rain, all the affected patches have disappeared. So as Odd Job says, if this happens best advice is to leave well alone. Could cause much damage with unnecessary T-cut etc.
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Old 4th November 2019, 10:12   #4
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If you get a dry day apply some wax to protect the paintwork over the winter.
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Old 4th November 2019, 11:31   #5
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The best car cover is a garage! Preferably heated and well ventilated. I've seen some of the garages owned by Yankee petrolheads in California! Greeeeeen.
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Most of the garages in the UK are too narrow for modern cars.
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