type of car cover (or other ideas) to prevent door-dings while stored in parkade

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I'm looking to park in a parking spot, in a parkade, where cars park on either side of it. As the body is in mint condition I don't want any door dings from other vehicles' opening doors.

The car isn't regularly driven, I'm thinking of a type of car cover to protect the body from such door dings. My theory was to look for a type of car cover that is thicker than the usual car covers thinking that such thickness would protect the paint from an incoming door hit.

The drawback of a heavier/thicker car cover could be that the operation of pulling it off/putting it back on may scratch the paint but I'm not sure.

Some people say to put something in-between the car and the cover in order to protect the paint from any door dings. Such a thing could end up scratching the paint though unless it's another soft material such as a blanket that is placed along the roof and hangs on each side but that would be a heck of a long and wide blanket. Wouldn't a thick car cover address that issue otherwise? It seems that putting something in-between could either harm the car or be insufficient in size to protect from any incoming door. Right now there is no car on the driver's side but that could change at any moment. There's a minivan on the passenger side.

I've not yet parked the car in the parking spot as i'm waiting for some body work to be completed first.

'thoughts on what to put under the car cover or what kind of thick car cover is ideal (that which won't harm the paint when pulling off and on)
 
I've been told about California Car Cover & Covercraft

I think I might go to the local speedshop places & see what flannel full-size (indoor in my case which may also be softer) covers they have then get a type of thick soft bed cotton sheet (or blanket), to hang inside the car cover, over the edge of each side of the car, where I believe any door-dings may occur.

It's also possible that if the car cover is vehicle-specific, it might be to tight onto the car, as it's designed to fit the contours of the car, which may cause a ding to more easily occur. If the cover is universal full-size (ensuring the L&W of our cars is accepted in the specification) then it might be more baggy is some key sections where the door opens onto a car which might stop body damage.


 
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I've been looking at car covers. As the car will be parked in a parkade I'd like it to be thick to ward off any door dings from next-door cars but I think strategically placing cotton blankets on either side, underneath the cover, would give it extra protection.

That being, I have been looking at the car covers with cotton inside as it's supposed to be softer and safer to prevent scratches from placing the cover on and taking it off. As it's in a parkade I'd rather it be just cotton to prevent scratches but I don't think anyone makes those. That being, just-cotton wouldn't likely be thick enough to protect from door dings though

I saw this Simoniz car cover, with cotton on the inside, but they are lying about that. The preview window on one of the boxes in the store shows the exterior of the cover and the interior of the cover and when I touch the supposed cotton side it's rough like paper.

I've got a dilemma that I hope to resolve somehow
 

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Wouldn't extra padding, under the car cover from soft blankets hung down near where incoming doors would potentially ding the car, work? I worry that even if noodles were used to protect the side of a car, if the impact was to be hard enough to ding the car, otherwise, wouldn't such an impact push the larger object (the noodle) on the body and possibly causing issues (larger dent, scratching)?
 
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