Re: [DML] Car Covers

["Henry" <henry@xxxx>]

> what i was incredulous of was why someone would choose to buy a car cover 
> (not a carcoon) to keep a car outside during snow and ice storms all thruthe 
> winter. for the amount of money you save on cancelling liability and collision 
> insurance during the non-driving months, you can rent a self-storage garage or 

I live in Massachusetts and drive my D year-round (but only when it's nice outside). The laws up here are not kind for making a regular automobile a "seasonal" vehicle, and I would have to turn in the plates and get new onesissued each year if I wanted to cancel my insurance in the off season. It's actually cheaper and easier to leave it insured all year. Sure, therewere some winter weeks that the car was under several feet of snow and I didn't drive it until it all thawed. Also, where I live a "carcoon" would bring way too much attention to the vehicle and would likely cause more damage from vandalous teenagers than rodents (of which I've had no problems over the last three years).  

Finally, I have the old "PAN" MASS plates on my Delorean, which only require one rear license plate. If I wanted to de-commission the car for the winter, as soon as I re-registered it in the spring, I would be forced to get the new FRONT and back tags. And who wants a front tag on their Delorean? I can keep the old tag as long as I keep a car registered to it.

One more note... last winter my windshield cracked and the full replacementby Rob Grady was fully covered by my insurance (and no deductible for glass either). You can bet that unless I lied about it, the insurance companywould not have covered that loss during the winter. Just because you may lock up your uninsured car in a heated storage facility during the winter doesn't mean you can't suffer some sort of damage, loss, or even theft.

-Hank