Sun damage?

Thanks, thanks to everyone for all these suggestions, there's a lot of consensus about these measures.

I've been using a sunshade on the front window, one i got from the Toyota dealer that is designed for the Prius, it takes up virtually the whole window area. I think i saw a rear window sunshade in the PriusChat store, guess i'll get one of those. I've been keeping the toneau cover closed, but i'm sure it will get aged if i use it as a sun shield.

Mostly I've been trying to protect my car by going to the office as late in the day as possible.

Good news, my administrator who was part of the way the parking spaces were given out asked me how i was yesterday, and i said was fine, she knows how i feel about the situation, and my supervisor has talked to the assistant administrator about it, and was given this same reassurance, that basically, the first person who leaves the office and gives up their parking card that's programmed for inside the structure, their card will be given to me. The assistant administrator told my supervisor they would give the first available card out based on seniority, and i'm clearly the most senior employee that's on the roof; the administrator told me yesterday that they would be assigning the first available card alphabetically. I said 'oh no! My name is at the end of the alphabet,' but she said the W's would come first because that's where they left off when they ran out of spaces. She then pointed out that my name was the first of the W's alphabetically--it was clear that she had attended to my issue, she told me not to worry. My supervisor has already told me of two people who are leaving. I don't have any kind of time frame for that, i work for a really large employer and sometimes things go bureaucratically slow, but those two people are transferring and their new positions have been promised to them--i'm hopeful that I will be off the roof before the summer heat hits in July through September. Fingers crossed. But it's still a good idea to get a rear window shade and to have the windows tinted, to give leather as long of life as possible.

About wax--my understanding from comments here is that waxing is not something you do really often, like once a year? So, is there any way i can tell if my car was waxed in the past year or so? I bought it on January 2, when it was 2 years old, i 've had it about 3 months. It looks really great, shiny and new, i mean, the paint.

 

Thanks. That's a very wise perspective.

Actually, my reaction to being on the roof was energized by a lot of issues it brought up and yes, i was very emotional about it, and i don't think i went into all of the issues here, it's way off topic, but it has to do with losing my much loved home in late 2007 to pesticides, having to move much farther from my job, adding a horrible long gridlock commute to my day, and then, this year, my office moved even farther, adding a new freeway segment, which felt so harsh, but then, the new office is really nice and i was happy they had a parking structure i could park in since i eat lunch in the car, only to find i was one of only a few people consigned to the roof for a bizarre reason, i also encountered chemical fumes from the tarpits next door, with a sign on the elevator in the structure that says 'Warning this area is known to have chemicals that cause cancer,' with very strong fumes inside the elevator, which goes up to the 6th floor but the roof is one more flight of stairs up, 7th floor, i had lung damage due to the pesticides sprayed inside my home in 07 which seemed to have improved after i moved out, but the fumes in the elevator caused irritation, so i was walking up all the flights of stairs to the 7th floor and by the time i got up there, i was breathing really hard, apparently i've lost some capacity after the pesticide thing, i did that twice a day for a couple of weeks on the days i was at the office and by the end of that time, my lungs were burning and it lasted over the weekend so i was worried, it was inflammation, how can i even keep working here? but i can't lose my job?

Then i realized i could park on the street. I had to move my car every two hours on the street but at least i didn't have to hurt my lungs, and there was shade on the street. Then i found out about a farther away street where i could park all day, so i've been doing that, walking quite a distance and parking on the street, pretty much in the shade, depending on the space i got, and i got the HeatShield sun shades for the side and back windows which kept my car cooler and protected, i only needed to put them on one side and the front. So that was my solution. My lungs are only now just starting to improve some after the trauma of climbing the stairs for a couple of weeks. It's weeks since i stopped doing that.

Finally, an employee left the office and i was getting their card key for inside the structure, but it still took them a couple of weeks after that to 'do the paperwork' ?, anyway, finally for the past week i've been able to park in the structure on the 2nd or 3rd floor, it's awesome, i'm so happy. My inanimate car is happy too.

I greatly appreciate all the feedback and info, i appreciate the sympathetic posts very much, i was in need of that, it was a hard thing to deal with and it wasn't just about the car's paint job, although until i got reassurance here, that was another upsetting piece of it, the car means so much to me, might be the last car i ever have and i want to keep it in good condition which really makes me feel happy, the way it looks.

i appreciate all the posts and info and appreciate people taking the time to give their opinions and experience and knowledge, i never felt a need to do anything special for upkeep on the paint and interior of previous cars and didn't worry about the Prius until the roof thing happened, so from this thread i learned a lot of things i am happy to know about taking care of the car, i got it waxed. I like the sunshades i got, just for keeping the car cooler alone.

thanks to everybody.