Hard top or soft top?
Originally Posted by operator207,Aug 29 2010, 10:37 PM
THIS.
Seriously, I love's me some top down time, and the wife is getting used to it slowly. (she still has issues with talking, then realizing the people next to us at the light can hear her, but it does make her quiet
)
BUT, if you have to deal with the Texas heat (again, I am sure other locations are similar or hotter) in Business professional clothing, You put the top up. I have tried the "change clothes to drive" option, but it gets old after awhile.
I can deal with cold, I can deal with 90-100 heat, but when you get sunburned on your short (22 mile) commute home, it just does not end the day well. Swamp butt is also not cool. What would make it great in the extreme temps, is a seat cooler. I have been trying to find a universal type that I can put in the seat, and it actually cool the seat, not just blow air. I have not had much luck yet.
Seriously, I love's me some top down time, and the wife is getting used to it slowly. (she still has issues with talking, then realizing the people next to us at the light can hear her, but it does make her quiet
)BUT, if you have to deal with the Texas heat (again, I am sure other locations are similar or hotter) in Business professional clothing, You put the top up. I have tried the "change clothes to drive" option, but it gets old after awhile.
I can deal with cold, I can deal with 90-100 heat, but when you get sunburned on your short (22 mile) commute home, it just does not end the day well. Swamp butt is also not cool. What would make it great in the extreme temps, is a seat cooler. I have been trying to find a universal type that I can put in the seat, and it actually cool the seat, not just blow air. I have not had much luck yet.
Originally Posted by idea-catalyst,Aug 30 2010, 01:53 PM
So it goes back to the question of which hard tops fit on which model years. Anybody know?
Originally Posted by smurf2k,Aug 30 2010, 04:25 PM
vented seats in the S2k would be the cats ballssssssss
I am looking into something along these lines.
Between the leather and the foam, have tubes. The tubes have a fluid in them (something like the fluid you use for water cooling a computer).
They would run up to the footwell's vent. In front of the vent would be a "radiator" hat would cool the fluid. Then a pump to pump the fluid back to the seat. I may run another set of tubes that have air running though them, But I am not sure how I could get the volume I need without sounding like I have an air compressor in the car.
The "radiator" would either be hot or cold depending on what you had the AC set to.
The seats would get cold or hot. (probably just cool or warm)
I now have to go through my Helm manual to see what I need to do to get the seats out of a MY06 and not break/trip the SRS.
Originally Posted by rnye,Aug 18 2010, 02:52 PM
Its overated and pointless knowing you're driving around with 2500-3K sitting over your head.
Originally Posted by justind,Aug 19 2010, 07:30 PM
the people who say top down all the time have never been through a texas summer lol
when the heat index is 115+ degrees your top isnt down
when the heat index is 115+ degrees your top isnt down
Originally Posted by TestMonkey,Aug 30 2010, 04:39 PM
Just wait til your top is slashed and your seats (almost, thanks to a passerby) stolen.
Reason for top-up in Texas ^^, from a couple weeks ago.

Even at 6am these sorts of days, it's 83 degrees with a heat index near 90. And it's a nasty, sweaty, uncomfortable 90-ish.
Not to say it's like that all the time - there are still days in the summer, after a rare front moves though, when it's great for top-down driving, eating outside on the patio, etc. It's only those people who are trying to prove something that say they go top-down all the time here.
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