[Mgs] Convertibles make you deaf

Max Heim max_heim at sbcglobal.net
Thu Oct 8 11:04:49 MDT 2009


Precisely. And the hardtop is even worse in some respects -- it reverberates
mechanical noises that I never hear otherwise, making me think something is
terribly wrong. 

All in all, it effectively removes any temptation to use a cell phone.

--

Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 10/8/09 2:50 AM, Simon Matthews at simon.d.matthews at gmail.com wrote:

> On the rare occasions that I put the hood up on my MGA, it seems
> noisier than with the hood down.
> 
> Simon
> 
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1 at blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6265762/Convertible-cars-coul
>> d-damage-hearing.html
>> 
>> Another attempt at killjoying?
>> 
>> Although I avoid motorways in the roadster where possible, and where I can't
>> I
>> have the hood up regardless of the weather precisely because of the noise
>> from
>> other traffic and the buffeting from lorries is so unpleasant.
>> 
>> PaulH.


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