yeah people who put it in the garage are just silly if they dont first find the release cable or not fully shut the frunk but then again a momentary lapse in concentration can lead to a silly mistake!
cars sit outside year in, year out without covers on them if they are being used so personally i dont see the point in car covers most of the time. my car is well polished and waxed so i dont see what difference it would make having a cover or not. i more just want one to avoid any uneccesary attention.
as for the tender i will not be using onefor a while. the car will be getting moved shortly and its new home is in my new houses driveway and it will sit right outside my living room window. luckily there isnt much of a gap between the window and car if i ever decided to use one, but for this year the battery will come out and a new place has been found for the manual release cable