My scoot is always in the garage at home unless I am cleaning or working on it. At work or when I'm out, it is parked outside - no cover. Where I work, if it was covered, people would lift the cover to see what was underneath. I had an assigned parking spot, but it was next to where people would smoke. I would come out to find cigarette ash in the dimples of the seat, so I stopped parking in my assigned spot. Security asked why, and I told them, so they moved my spot.