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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:04 PM
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Soft bed cover vs. gas station car wash?

I just put a Extant rt bed cover on my 04 SuperCrew…
It is a soft - roll top cover.


Some times I take the truck though a gas station car wash (no touch).
Will that be a problem with the bed cover? Will it damage it? What do you recommend?

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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:18 PM
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I'd be more worried about my piant using those crappy carwashs, but hey, it's your truck!
 
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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:19 PM
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I secound that!
 
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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:22 PM
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Thanks for your concern about my paint, but I am asking about the bed cover.
 
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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:24 PM
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While I dont know what effects it'll have on the cover. Why use those type of washes? You'll spend 5 bucks and get a wet truck. Spend 5 bucks @ a wash it yourself stall and get a pretty clean truck.
 
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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:25 PM
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I use a " no touch " car wash on my rig, it's just a high pressure washer that causes no issues with my soft cover,BUT then again
nothing is touching the truck except high pressure spraying of
water ......
 
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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:28 PM
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Originally posted by jztbcz
I use a " no touch " car wash on my rig, it's just a high pressure washer that causes no issues with my soft cover,BUT then again
nothing is touching the truck except high pressure spraying of
water ......
When I do use a gas station car was, it is only the no touch ones as well.

Have you noticed it stretching your cover or it not fitting as tight as it did when it was new?

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Old May 6, 2005 | 03:35 PM
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Absolutely NO problems at all.. I had a friend tell me about the place and I'm glad he did, it saves me a great deal of time. I go there every week now ( weather permitting ) I bring a bottle of hot water and some cleaning clothes to get what the sprayer may
not get, then I dry and I'm good to go .... been going there about
six months now and my cover still looks like day one of install ...



p.s. My cover is a Ford soft tonneau with snaps ....
 

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Old May 6, 2005 | 04:06 PM
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Back on my '97 w/ soft cover I ran it through everything w/o issues... I say go for it.
 
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