[TR] Covering a newly painted car

[Jerry Van Vlack]

Bad advise


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TeriAnn J. Wakeman" <tjwakeman at gmail.com>
To: "Cliff Hansen" <cliff_hansen at earthlink.net>; "Triumph List" 
<triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TR] Covering a newly painted car


> On 7/24/11 7:21 PM, Cliff Hansen wrote:
>>
>> An enclosed trailer is not an option, as I have one tow vehicle and own 
>> the flatbed trailer, and we're moving from Nevada to New Mexico.
> When I moved from California to Flagstaff, after loading my TR3 on the 
> trailer I put its car cover on then wrapped the car cover & car in 
> plastic.  The soft car cover was on the body and the wrap never touched 
> the body except for the underside.  It seemed to work OK.  The paint was 
> not new but I was concerned about flying debris and night time visitors. 
> No one tried to unwrap the car to see what was underneath and nothing got 
> through the wrap.  It takes 2 people & lots of wrap to cocoon a TR.
>
> If your paint is at least a week old you should be fine.
>
> Teriann
>
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