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Old 03-09-2010, 06:57 PM   #69 (permalink)
8307c4
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As I got a notification that someone replied to my thread I did want to update
on this modification of mine, do NOT get that tarp / cover that I bought!!!

It worked great at first but it fell to pieces in less than a year's time.
That was after I replaced their elastic bungee with clothes line, and I also
replaced their clips and what have you with steel hooks.
Why, because those plastic clips of theirs bent to the point they wouldn't hold,
meanwhile the elastic bungee wouldn't hold up under the stress of the wind that comes
down in back at most any speed over say 25mph.

I spent close to $50 extra just in those parts.

And some might think that steel was the problem, but it wasn't, it may have contributed
slightly but the material itself fell apart, big bad tears all up and down, I could have
left it sitting in my driveway and it would have got tore up just from sitting outside.
No, I'm not joking, the weather itself is what wore it out, mostly.

Total POS, cheap and all but stuff like this?
They shouldn't even sell this kind of gar-badge.

Last edited by 8307c4; 03-09-2010 at 07:04 PM..
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