Reply to "Winter Storage"

I've used the zip up car bag for about seven years now and it works great! The car comes out just as you put it away. A few thing that you need to do if you are going this route. First always put a good cloth car cover on first before zipping up the bag or you will scratch your paint. Make sure you store you car away after there have been a few dry days so that you don't seal in too much moisture for the desicant to absorb. If you want to open it up in the middle of winter, you can do so but do it on a very dry day otherwise all the moisture in the air will be attracted to your car like a magnet. The same thing goes for when you remove it in the spring. You can recharge the desicant by simply baking it in an oven for a couple of hours. I use a few disposable foil baking trays for baking turkeys. When you remove the trays from the oven cover them with foil right away because when it cools to a certain temp it will start absorbing moisture. You can also reuse the desicant year after year.

Finally when you open it up in the spring, don't have an open flame around or be smoking because there will be a lot of gas fumes traped in there too.

I have an uheated garage and live in Michigan where it gets quite cold and I have never had a problem using this method. I would highly recomend it! I am pretty sure California Car Covers sells them now.

Good luck,

Ian