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Porsche Car Covers: Best Protection

The Porsche Boxster is indeed a statement in class, elegance, engineering, velocity and dependability. These are all attributes of a Porsche Boxster, but perhaps the best attribute of Porsche Boxtster is the perfect harmony that Porsche has created through the appropriate pricing of the sports car. All said and done, the Boxster is still an expensive buy at more than sixty thousand dollars! It is also a valuable investment that you must protect from all harm. The first thing that you need to protect any car is of course, a cover, and for a Porsche Boxster, what can be more fitting than a custom fit car cover to do the job?

There are many reasons as to why the car needs a car cover, especially a car as expensive and as classy as a Porsche Boxster. Not that it would matter to someone who has spent so many dollars on his car, but still you should know that a custom fit car cover for your Porsche can at best cost you a few hundred dollars and that is a small amount indeed when considering what the cover is protecting.

It is quite possible that you leave your car in the sun for long, the incident can be unintentional or unconscious, but the damage that will be done is something that will hurt you for sure. The damage from sunlight is visible on your Boxsters finishing.

Bird droppings are something that you just can not avoid wherever you park it and although you may consider that to be something that you can just wash it off, sunlight and bird droppings together can seriously damage your cars paint job if left unclean for a significant amount of time.

It is not impossible that a nearby jealous human being will try to damage your brand new Boxster by putting scratches on your car, it is infuriating but once done, you will rue the fact that you did not get a custom fit cover for your new car.

Acid rain, hail, snow, sleet and even excess moisture can damage your new Boxster significantly.

Minor impacts can lead to minor damages also on your cars body, so with a protective and fitting cover, you will protect your car against the smaller impacts effectively.

If you allow insects to have access to your car by leaving it unprotected, then they may be frequent visitors and will probably nest too! Covering it up well will not give the insects any such chance.

Pets like cats and dogs can damage or at least make your car very dirty in your absence as they have the tendency to jump up on cars and run around leaving dirty footprints behind.

The final and the most common reason why people cover up their objects in the first place is dust. Even if it is a Porsche Boxster, it does not look anything like itself if it is not clean.

Just make sure that your car cover is guaranteed and also check if it is a high quality four layer cover. Mirror pockets on the sides promise a better fit for your car, so try to get a custom fit car cover with side mirror pockets from a reputed company, like Covercraft for example.

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What would a custom paint job cost (ballpark prices for different types) for my car?

I have a mitsubishi 3000 gt, and i would like to paint it black cherry colored. im curious what it would cost to get a solid color that looks really slick. the entire car would need to be repainted. i know its hard to tell with just this information but i would just like some ballpark prices for different options. thanks alot.

If you spend less than $3000 you are getting a crappo special. I like the $500 jobs that go on sale for $250 and they don't wash the car and paint over all of the bird poop and mud so you have well preserved shiny poop and mud hanging to your vehicle. My old truck just gets painted for the sake of preserving the metal that hasn't rusted away.

A custom good paint job would entail taking the windows and rubber seals off (and replacing them if they can't be reused) and sanding every nook and cranny and then painting in a controlled environment, letting it dry for a day or two and then wet sanding it for a few more days and then replacing all of the glass and rubber seals and tail lights and head lights and logo's and racing stripes.

Most cars have a plastic coating that isn't very weather resistant but it looks good for about three weeks past the time you drive it off the new car lot. This has to be sanded off and preferably you'd want a paint job that went down to the metal and reprimed and then painted.

If you want decent and relatively cheap, $3000 is the beginning. If you want restoration perfect then you are into a $5,000 plus range. If you want "throw some paint on this thing" then you are into the $500 paint over bird poop range.

God Luck!

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