Roof down... and rain!

benlumley

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Driving home just now with the top down (hey, its new, novelty not worn off, so its always down) and it started to rain ... quite hard.

Lesson learned - roof down in the rain isn't cool under about 50 or 55 mph! Bet the car behind laughed when I finally got to a set of red lights and put the roof back up!
 
benlumley said:
Driving home just now with the top down (hey, its new, novelty not worn off, so its always down) and it started to rain ... quite hard.

Lesson learned - roof down in the rain isn't cool under about 50 or 55 mph! Bet the car behind laughed when I finally got to a set of red lights and put the roof back up!

Heavy rain, in the UK, ..today...er where ?
 
Z4 + roof down + big fecking HAIL STONES + catching slow-moving car in front = FAIL :oops:

(me on a Z4-forum run earlier this year - whereas everyone else was sensible and stopped to raise their roofs but I kept on going)
 
Several times I've looked out at the weather in the morning and thought - it's ok put the roof down, 6 miles down the road and onto the coast and wallop down comes the rain, worst was earlier in the year when i must have caught a pocket of ash cloud coming down, thick black sludge all over a pure white interior :cry: not good! Still it's kind of fun fighting on and then catching a break in the rain and a little sun and all of a sudden it doesn't seem so mad :)
 
oh and ps BMW 20 seconds is a bloody long time when it's bucketing down, used to get my MG roof up a damn sight quicker, trouble is - it still felt like it was raining in the car even with the roof up on the MG (and it was a midget, a real MG not a re-badged rover) :)
 
I had my roof down with light rain last summer (yet the sun was still out)... stuck on the M1 in slowish moving traffic - so i couldnt put the roof up; and it was slow enough for me to get me wet! But there were atleast 2 other convertibles around me in the same situation so i didnt feel as embarrassed!
 
So.....a question about roof down driving. If the roof is down and I use the windscreen wash, am I going to get soaked? Or does that depend on where the washer jets are pointing and how fast I am going?

Years ago I had an old MGB Roadster. That used to make me look like I'd had an accident if I forgot and squirted the windscreen with the roof down......:-)

I've not tried it yet to find out.

Cheers
 
jong said:
So.....a question about roof down driving. If the roof is down and I use the windscreen wash, am I going to get soaked? Or does that depend on where the washer jets are pointing and how fast I am going?


I've not tried it yet to find out.

Cheers


No the only time i get wet from windscreen wash is when the wiper blades sweep across the screen and the water comes around the side of the screen
 
GAZA62 said:
jong said:
So.....a question about roof down driving. If the roof is down and I use the windscreen wash, am I going to get soaked? Or does that depend on where the washer jets are pointing and how fast I am going?


I've not tried it yet to find out.

Cheers


No the only time i get wet from windscreen wash is when the wiper blades sweep across the screen and the water comes around the side of the screen

Yep... if anything thing the stupid headlight washers get in not the windscreen one.
 
I only get wet with the roof down and windscreen washers if Im stationery,

that apart from round the side as already mentioned...
 
Does it damage the electrics if ot starts spitting while roof is down and then you put ot up. I have z4 hardtop anxiety just got caught out while cleaning the interior
 
Mars1974 said:
Does it damage the electrics if ot starts spitting while roof is down and then you put ot up. I have z4 hardtop anxiety just got caught out while cleaning the interior

Have you had the roof motor relocated? If not, get that done, otherwise a design flaw will tend to fill it full of water regardless if the roof is up or down.
 
Mars1974 said:
Does it damage the electrics if ot starts spitting while roof is down and then you put ot up. I have z4 hardtop anxiety just got caught out while cleaning the interior
Not if it was just a few spots. Drop the windows an inch then run the engine with the heater on full for a few minutes to shift any slight damp that may have got in.
Or if it’s a nice warm day just leave it with the roof down for a while
 
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