I misread the weather yesterday and my poor ragtop got caught in a monsoon. As its been so hot I've been leaving the ragtop with the hood up and windows down. Thankfully I didn't have the roof down this time. The rear seat was a wash with hail stones and the rear foot wells were 3" deep of water on top of the sound deadening and carpets. The trickle that started to fall from a gap it found in a rear body bung An hour after the rain and still deep. My seat pocket. I have since started to leave the key in the key box
Unlucky Birdy I read somewhere that the UK has the most soft top cars pro rata than any other country its only sunny about two weeks of the year so why is that, I've never understood it
CAR magazine in 96 dedicated a whole magazine to ragtops (only know this because I've got a copy. I'm not Rainman) and said that too. I consider mine a moonroof too. As long as nothing is dropping from the sky, it's open. It must be a British sports car hankering that is deep within our genes and something we are born with
That why for the sake of a few seconds mine always goes up, you just can't trust the British weather or people.
I've only ever had one convertible which I owned for 2 years. Even if there was a clear blue sky when I stopped to put the roof down, by the time I went round the next bend it would be raining :rain: For that reason I never parked it with the roof down. Mind you, being an Audi, it sometimes used to randomly open it's own windows - but that's another story
i always park the bug with the windows down a bit if its sunny but not open enough to get the keys from the ignition when i locked them in him the other day :-[ :-[
I leave mine parked with the top down regularly, even overnight sometimes. Saves the hassle of putting it up and then down again. Ther's nothing worth stealing inside and it'll dry out fast enough once the rain stops.
