Car Cover for My Spyder

Many cheaper car covers scratch paint, especially if you put them on a dirty car.

My car covers used to pick up a lot of electrostatic dust, not sure if it was coming from dirt on the car or small stuff that filtered through the cover.  So I’d take the cover off, then have to wipe it down with a red “California duster” to get the sticky dust off the fenders.  If you have a dry garage, then maybe a cheap waterproof cover would keep dust from filtering through the cover.  Especially on top of something soft like your bedsheets.  The “breathable” covers I have owned seem to just filter the small dirt right through.  

I have had some bad experience with “waterproof” covers in the rain.  Water always gets through, then bakes.  It would drive moisture into the paint and leave really ugly white splotches ...that would eventually dry out.   

I use a cheap thin cloth cover a local  member gave me.  I like it because its effective at dust protection and I can throw it in the washing machine at the beginning of the season.  It’s also very easy to put on, take off and put away. 

I bought a cover from Covercraft Custom: https://www.covercraft.com/us/en/product/custom-block-it-380-car-cover.C-CCB3; for around $170.

The cover is not waterproof, however it has provided good protection to my Spyder.

What I really like about this cover is that: it fits everything (including outside mirrors); has enough extra fabric to go on/off easily; provides full coverage; and allows you to attach a cable and lock so that your cover cannot blow off and/or be quickly or easily stolen.

Paul

Thanks to all for the ideas. I looked a lot to try to find something that would work as well as a couple of high quality bedsheets. Though I do not like the look I settled on a couple of high quality bedsheets. It is just a night time cover to keep the dust off because I am in the deep country in Texas and the car is kept in a carport (one side open).

I've had both a expensive covercraft cover and a cheap cover off eBay. My eBay cover was just as good as my covercraft.  While the covercraft had pockets for the mirrors, my eBay cover did not. It was breathable, came with a cable, don't recall if it came with a lock. 

I paid close to $200 or more for the covercraft, my eBay one was $50.00 on sale. It's usually around $59.00 from a seller named advance something.  I bought another cover for my Alfa from the same seller. I love it. 

@triz

I will use the cover only as a dust cover. Is it fairly easy to install /remove the cover? I ask because I daily drive my Spyder and install /remove would thus be a daily chore.

FWIW, I have a custom cover I bought used from a member on SC and it has the pockets for the mirrors.  I also have a non-custom cover (no mirror pockets).  I found the cover with the mirror pockets easier for me to use because I can hook the cover on a mirror and then hook it on the other mirror and then it goes on easily.  I'd have to hook the front of the cover (with no pockets) on the front of the car and hope it stayed in place while I stretched it to the back of the car.  With either cover, it is easy for the cover to slide-off the car due to smooth paint and that is why I like the pocketed cover better.  That said, with either cover, it is just a matter of getting used to using the cover you go with.  After a while it get faster putting the cover on or taking it off.  I find it only takes me about a minute, now that I know the tricks for putting the cover on the car or taking it off.