Vinyl Upholstery Burns w/ Cover On

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lowform

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Hello again friends,

I have a black cover on my boat. When I leave it in the sun (Arizona heat), my vinyl upholstery will discolor to a brown burnt color. If I remove the cover and let the sun shine directly on the boat it will 'beach' out the burnt brown color and go back to the light grey it should be. Anyone else have this issue? Anyone have suggestions how to avoid the burning effect?

Thank you,
Aaron
 

ziggy

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Anyone have suggestions how to avoid the burning effect?
i don't have yer problem nor have i heard of it. but i understand how colors are effected by the sun.
on a 100* day, i can touch my white fiberglass boat and keep my hand there indefinitely.
on a 100* day, i can stand on my lime green carpet in my boat or sit in my lime green upholstery. it's warmer than the white boat, but i can sit w/o having to move, it's just hot.
on a 100* day, i have a real dark green throw mat in my boat, almost black. you'll stand on that mat for no longer than it takes to move off it. it'll burn ya... perhaps the black cover ya have is acting just like my real dark green/black throw mat.

so dark colors get much hotter than light colors. it's the norm.
so my suggestion would be to 1st park the boat in the shade and see if that helps, if not, then i'd get a light colored cover instead of the black one. light colors reflect heat, dark colors absorb heat....

don't know if that'll fix ya up but that's where i'd start at...
 

lineman09

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I have the same issue with my boat and a med blue cover . I just been covering the area that is in contact with the cover with a couple old towels.. seems to work!!!
 

Baylinerchuck

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No suggestions but I have light gray vinyl that also has brown "burn" marks in areas. It's a used boat so not sure how they got there, but the burns haven't distorted the vinyl, or changed its texture, just the color. I'm not sure how to remove these discolorations. Interesting someone has a similar problem
 
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