Windy Days and Missing Covers

Not a day goes by in the Just Group offices when we don't have a customer e-mail or telephone to comment about how their car cover has just blown away. Of course they are always talking about competitors products and they then go on to place an order with us (and have many years of faithful service from their purchase!) Many car cover manufacturers fail to consider the effects that the wind can have on their product and this can be potentially disastrous for any vehicle owner.

It is all too common to wander up and down the aisles of many high street and business park automotive retailers and find a bewildering variety of car covers for sale, many of them making all sorts of gaudy and outlandish claims. "Totally waterproof, protects your car down to a thousand feet!" "Protection from direct lightning strikes!" "Features new Lion and Tiger proof membrane, guaranteed!" Our happy shopper will purchase his lightning proof, lion safe and airtight cover and rush home and fit it to his beloved vehicle in a state of gleeful delirium feeling at peace with the world now that his car is safe.

That night a storm is brewing. Not a major storm by any means, but certainly a storm that would be taxing to many car covers on the market today. Throughout the night our happy shopper can hear his new cover flapping around in the wind making an absolute racket and keeping him awake. He finally dozes off into a dream filled slumber and awakes in the morning only to find his car completely naked! Exposed to the elements it is covered in the remnants from the storm; leaves are stuck to the paintwork and leave a messy, sticky imprint when removed, the next door neighbours underwear adorns the roof like white oversized surrender flags and a rather bewildered cat meows pathetically as it tries to disentangle itself from the windscreen wipers.

All of this could have been avoided with the right car cover, and although we are obviously biased we feel that the Just Group car covers are second to none thanks to the judicious and expedient use of elastic in their products. Philosophers have spent millennia debating the greatest inventions of mankind; from the wheel to fire, from canned food to the microchip, from controlled flight to the internal combustion engine. Great thinkers we most certainly are not but we think elastic should certainly be included in any list of top inventions from the past hundred thousand or so years. Elastic holds your underwear up and your car cover down, what more could a person possibly need?

It may seem that we are waxing lyrical about elastic, but you would be surprised to find how many car covers currently on the market completely omit elasticated straps from their design. Whilst the admittedly exaggerated and somewhat hyperbole laden story described above could possibly be seen as an absolute worst case scenario the fact remains that many people awake after a windy night to find that their car over has vanished into the night on the breeze because the straps were not adjusted correctly.

Elasticated straps (as featured on almost all of our car covers) ensure that you can fit the cover in an instant, you waste no time adjusting cords and sliding toggles backwards and forwards to tighten the cover to your vehicle. On a cold and grim winters morning when you drag your way to your car the last thing you want to be doing at an ungodly hour before the caffeine kicks in is trying to untie semi-frozen knots from a semi-frozen tie-down cord. This will only serve to put you in a bad mood for the rest of the day, and not only will you suffer but your short temper could encourage a bad attitude amongst your co-workers and subordinates, and this could result in drastically decreased productivity which will have a direct influence on the future of your company and in turn directly hinder global economic recovery.

In all seriousness the morning routine is already complicated enough, we firmly believe that buying one of our car covers ensures that it can be fitted very easily, removed just as easily, and will remain easy to use for many years to come. Simplicity and many years of experience have allowed us to refine our design and the result is the products that you see advertised on our Just Car Covers website. We won't lie to you by telling you that our waterproof half covers are bullet proof or that our lightweight breathable covers can serve as handy parachutes in case of airborne emergencies, but we do promise you that they represent excellent value for money and they are the sum of many years of refinement and redevelopment based on customer feedback.

Just Car Covers represents the pinnacle of simple to use yet high quality car covers at affordable prices. We care passionately about cars and as a result we care passionately about our products, and we're certain that you will discover this when you choose to purchase on of our car covers.