Soft-top always parked outside?

[anonymous-user]

Ari said:

Eleven said:

It gets carried away by the slipstream passing over the screen and over the top of the car.

Trust me it doesn't! (well, maybe it does at over 100mph!)

It's too big a mass by the time it has been piled up by the wipers.

A tiny bit of light drizzle you could probably get away with, anything approaching proper rain and you're going to get wet, not from the rain necessarily but from the wiper residue.

Maybe this is just down to the car design.

[Blue Oval84]

Rower said:

Slightly off topic , I am thinking of getting a soft top ( and encouraged by this thread ) and it will be parked outside but on my driveway , will I get hit on insurance? I am thinking of a convertible Merc CLK and currently run a tin top version.

I can't see why you would. As with all cars, some insurers will give a good quote and others will give a rubbish one.

A modern soft top is far more secure than people seem to think, someone trying to get in would find it easier to break the glass than get through the roof, and any car is susceptible to mindless vandalism, not just soft tops.

[ali_kat]

Shaw Tarse said:

One wouldn't want to get their hair wet!

Never been worked about my hair being wet & it only makes it look better at the moment!

Was worried about my handbag, phone & car electrics

[TNurburgring]

Thanks for all the help!

[Baz Tench]

My Boxster lived outside for the two years I owned it. It was a couple of years ago now, when we had those bad Winters.

I had a carport built in the second year as I was worried about heavyish snow sitting on the roof making it sag. I was just being over protective though I think. Well treated, with the Autoglym cleaner/proofer, it just seemed to shrug everything off in other adverse weather.

Never got damp inside either. Very impressive.