by "AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
Published 05/01/2017 at 01:45
by "AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
Published 05/01/2017 at 01:45
Tags: Seattlemindset
STARS: 1
Do you ever just get the urge to go out and make sure you put your top up, even though you know you did? Or like, wake up in the middle of the night, hearing the rain, and run outside thinking there could be a foot of water in your cabin..? No? Is that just me..? Okay....
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
05/01/2017 at 01:49, STARS: 0
no garage?
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/01/2017 at 01:51, STARS: 0
Condo. I’d put up a canopy, but once the homeowners association recovered from their rage-stroke they would fine me until I was destitute
"Tristan" (casselts)
05/01/2017 at 01:57, STARS: 3
You have an NA Miata. Top up or down, a foot of water inside is inevitable.
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/01/2017 at 02:01, STARS: 1
Wrong, because this one has a brand new, professionally installed, Robbins soft top!
So 6 inches of water inside, tops
"RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire" (ricerocketeer2)
05/01/2017 at 02:09, STARS: 1
Ah, sucks. I sometimes park top-down in my garage but I still get paranoid about the critters that get inside. The previous owner had spilled Coke inside and I once found the car interior crawling with ants, even having parked with the top up.
"Tristan" (casselts)
05/01/2017 at 02:10, STARS: 0
Ah... Mine did not have a Robbins top. It was some sort of cheap thing installed by a Subaru dealer. It only leaked most of the time.
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/01/2017 at 02:26, STARS: 0
The year leading up to the top install, I probably had a total accumulation of over a foot of water between the terribly patched door window areas and the “somewhat glued in” rear window. I still don’t understand how it’s not rusted out
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/01/2017 at 02:27, STARS: 0
Good point. There are a lot of brown recluses and black widows around here... I’d rather keep them outside the vehicle
"Tristan" (casselts)
05/01/2017 at 02:29, STARS: 0
The Bissell Little Green Machine portable extractor, car covers, and the garage when I could fit it in were all good friends of mine when I had that car. I was always looking for overhangs to park under, and I always had a couple beach towels in the trunk just in case. It was still dryer than when I had a CJ-7 in Florida that I drove all summer with no top. Daily monsoons? No big deal, I’ve got rain gear.
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/01/2017 at 02:36, STARS: 0
What is this portable extractor you speak of? Yep, bath towels went on my seats every night it rained (so every night). At the end when it was really bad I started only parking on downhill slopes so I could channel all the dripping water into two spots in the interior. Ah, good times. I wonder if we’re scaring away potential soft top owners..?
So with the older jeeps is water zero issue? No exposed electronics, it wouldn’t cause any problems over the long term having no top?
"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
05/01/2017 at 02:50, STARS: 1
I don’t have a convertible, but I do have a sunroof, and have the same reaction when it rains.
"Tristan" (casselts)
05/01/2017 at 02:51, STARS: 0
Very few electronics at all, really. No carpet, vinyl seats, drain holes in the floor. I even had a marine head unit and speakers in it.
Extractor=carpet shampooer. I used it to suck the water out of the carpet.
Convertibles aren’t for the faint of heart!
"TheD0k_2many toys 2little time" (thed0ck)
05/01/2017 at 02:53, STARS: 1
no i park inside a garage
"Tazio, Count Fouroff" (tazio0625)
05/01/2017 at 04:49, STARS: 1
Yeah always paranoid about mine, like, geeking over the weather forecast and the possibility of rain...do I drive it or leave in garage?
Can we get home before rain moves in? Can I get outside and get the top closed before the rain starts? Will the top get wet so it has to stay closed till it’s been dry 48 hours? (This one is pure torture, I never want to drive with the top closed)
Beach towels and plastic bags in trunk
"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
05/01/2017 at 06:13, STARS: 1
When you have t-tops it takes so long to re-affix, there’s never any question as to whether you’ve done it
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
05/01/2017 at 06:48, STARS: 1
I have to check my sunroof everytime because I know the day I don’t is the day my interior is getting wet. The remote for my car is also broken and I constantly have to walk back and check that I did lock it because sometimes I don’t notice if I did or not.
"Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]" (jarrettw)
05/01/2017 at 07:14, STARS: 0
I have to park outside. If the rain comes in a certain way my passenger footwell will be soaked. It’s worse with the hardtop.
My soft top is getting replaced this week due to the 4 or 5 rips in it.
"ZHP Sparky, the 5th" (e30s2k)
05/01/2017 at 11:50, STARS: 0
Also car washes. When I had my S2000 I’d drop the car off at the (touch free, because soft-top) car wash and walk away to run errands…and then freak out trying to remember if I latched the top and closed the windows all the way.
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/01/2017 at 14:53, STARS: 0
Oh man. I think I’m fine now that I’ve got the new top, but I still haven’t taken my car to a car wash yet...
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
05/01/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 0
Worse with the hardtop?? That’s scary, I was hoping a hardtop would solve all water related problems.
New soft top is fantastic. Only issue is the water beads up on the new vinyl so we’ll that when you open your door you’ll have tons of little streams of water running into your car.