Shower cap on wet hood?

[srob]

It's absolutely pouring here, and having just driven home dodging the torrent that was coming in through the front of window/corner of roof area I've had to put the shower cap on him over night otherwise it's gonna be knee deep by the morning!

Is this a wise idea? I realise it's not ideal but over night it shouldn't hurt should it? Obviously long term the canvess would get a bit mouldy, but I'll be using it again in the morning come rain or shine. How long before mould appears (assuming it does)?

I was expecting a bit of a leak but I seem to get wetter in the Elise than I do on a bike!! Oh well, mental note- take a towel to work tomorrow.....

[tomtom]

I've put mine on wet a couple of times, it doesn't immediately grow mould or anything but I can't imagine it's good for the fabric.

When the car lives outside, I kind of accept these things as a given, it can always be put right anyway.

[bogie]

yep - fine..theres plent of air flowing...I do it all the time...mainly to keep the cat hairs off the roof as my cat thinks the Elise is his hammock !

[turnamere]

Seem to remember reading somewhere that you shouldn't store your roof wet for more than 2 days, so I imagine that a similar timescale would apply to showercape over the top. Having said that I put my roof in the boot at the start of last week and it stayed there until the weekend with just the cape on overnight; didn't seem to come to any harm.

[sp60]

Ah, so I'm not the only one then!
When it battered it down last week I got absolutely soaked...inside the car!
I'm not that bothered as I knew that they aren't totally waterproof before I bought,
but I didnt expect a constant stream of water on my right arm whilst driving along!!
Have had to remove the mats as they were absolutely soaked...on the bright side it
has removed about 5kg in weight!!
Have put the hard top back on for now and am going to attempt to fix the leaking section...