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Re: Soggy Trousers

To: "T. .R. Dafforn" <td214@cam.ac.uk>,
Subject: Re: Soggy Trousers
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <dougnad@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:43:26 -0400
I put on a brand-new rubber seal on my soft top header rail, and it
drips more on my crotch when driving in a rainstorm than the old one did!

Having a scratched and dented windscreen capping may allow leaks between
it and the rubber seal...

Doug Braun

At 11:27 AM 9/19/00 +0100, T. .R. Dafforn wrote:

> >
> > I also get a leak between the windscreen top and the hood (soft-top to
> >  Americans?), when driving at speed in hard rain.  I know the solution to 
>this
> >  one - well, two solutions.  First, don't drive at speed in the hard rain 
>in a
> >  22-year-old British convertible car.  Second option, more practical, I may
> >  have to admit the summer is over, and it's time to swap to the hard-top for
> >  the next 6 months.  Oh well, I guess this time comes round every year 
>sooner
> >  or later.
> >
>
>I've found that I get two leaks that correspond to where the two soft top 
>latches
>are, sadly I have never sorted them out as the leak is intermitant anyway....
>Have you tried a new soft top seal?


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