...you leave your car window open overnight and it rains? Yup, so now I'm driving with one of those plastic sided picnic sheets as a ghetto seat cover til it dries up. Better than driving with a soggy bottom I guess. On the plus side my driver inner door panel is clean, as is a small portion of my dash!
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Sept. 10, 2011 12:10 p.m. procker Reader
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Sept. 10, 2011 12:19 p.m. Javelin SuperDork
Not nearly as much as leaving the sunroof open...
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Sept. 10, 2011 12:24 p.m. procker Reader
In reply to Javelin: true words there!
All in all I blame carkid1989 for buying the drinks last night haha
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Sept. 10, 2011 3:11 p.m. Will HalfDork
Once left my sunroof open. It rained, then it froze. Not a pleasant trip to work.
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Sept. 10, 2011 3:14 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork
Did it freeze the sunroof open? It did that to me once.
Neither rain nor cold are an issue where I am now.
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Sept. 10, 2011 4:06 p.m. Will HalfDork
carguy123 wrote:
Did it freeze the sunroof open? It did that to me once.
Neither rain nor cold are an issue where I am now.
No, but it froze the leather seats that had sucked up the rain.
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Sept. 10, 2011 4:12 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
only thing worse is to be the dumbass who leaves the top down on your roadster in the rain
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Sept. 10, 2011 4:46 p.m. EvanB SuperDork
mad_machine wrote:
only thing worse is to be the dumbass who leaves the top down on your roadster in the rain
I've only done that a few times.
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Sept. 10, 2011 5:45 p.m. cwh SuperDork
I did work on a house in Coral Gables some time ago. In the garage was a beautiful XKE. But you could not see in the windows. I asked about it and was told that a year ago it had been parked outside and it started to rain hard. So, they put the top up, closed the windows, and pushed it into the garage. Totally trashed interior. DEA seized the house six months later. Much more to the story.
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Sept. 10, 2011 6:05 p.m. Curmudgeon SuperDork
EvanB wrote:
mad_machine wrote:
only thing worse is to be the dumbass who leaves the top down on your roadster in the rain
I've only done that a few times.
Only once here. Yes, alcohol was involved.
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Sept. 10, 2011 6:14 p.m. bludroptop SuperDork
Too many years ago, I had a MGB with no top. I had a canvas tarp to throw over it in the driveway, and an old towel to wipe the seats down otherwise. Drove it year round in New England.
Rain was a pain, but I dealt with it - much as you might do with a motorcycle. No carpets, and the floor drained fairly well. Snow was kinda cool as long as you were moving, but no fun after being parked for a while. Sleet hurt!
My girlfriend at the time was a good sport about it, but had limits.
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Sept. 10, 2011 6:51 p.m. wbjones SuperDork
I notice you said "my girlfriend AT THE TIME
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Sept. 10, 2011 7:13 p.m. Giant Purple Snorklewacker SuperDork
procker wrote:
In reply to Javelin: true words there!
All in all I blame carkid1989 for buying the drinks last night haha
At least you didn't have a car full of sick this am. That is the least fun thing to discover in the car after a night out. 2nd only to an afterbirth.
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Sept. 10, 2011 8:53 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
My father tells a funny story involving his 61 chevy impala convertable. He and some friends went out drinking while he was in the navy. What they didn't know is one of the guys got sick in the well the top folded down into...
until the next morning when he went to put the top up
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Sept. 10, 2011 11:09 p.m. Sonic Dork
My Land Rover Discovery II has 2 sunroofs. Because it can.
I brought a bunch of trash to the dump one day, and opened the rear sunroof to have airflow out the back. When I got home I, I backed up the fairly steep driveway facing down, and left it there for a while, as I daily drove my e30 instead of getting 14 MPG all of the time.
I got into it about 2 weeks later, after several hard rainstorms, and found that....I had never closed the rear sunroof. Water had pooled up in the driver's footwell as that was the lowest point, but the heavy carpet and all of the thick sound deadening was soaked, as was the rear seat. That day began a week long process of removing basically ALL of the interior, and lots of towels, fans and whatnot to dry it out. What a PITA.
It was much easier when I left the sunroof on my 86 CRX Si open in a thunderstorm, I just put it in the garage with a fan on it for about 2 days and it was fine.
