Lesson of the day: Convertible= week long sunburn unless you bring sunscreen....

I'm finding I need to leave my keys by my sunscreen, cause it'll kick my butt. Anyone else discover this the hard way?

 

Absolutely. Since the first week I had the car in July '03. I found it's a good idea to keep in a zip-loc plastic bag with a good seal.

 

I learned that when borrowing a friend's S for a weekend. Spent at least 5+ hrs in the car with no suncreen on and thought nothing of it, until the next day! It was the first time I have ever blistered from sunburn, but at least it was only a bit under my eyes and on the nose.

It's funny how the idea that I could get sunburnt in a car absolutely never occurred to me.

 

It was the first thing my convertable car owner friends told me so I was pretty lucky not to get fried. I dont like driving with the top down when the sun is blistering anyway. It becomes too uncomfortable after 15 minutes or so even with the sunscreen on. I can't wait for fall and winter.

 

Must be you live somewhere that it is nice year 'round. We here in Rochester value every sunny day we get!!

 

Sunscreen and a baseball cap should be your best friends in a convertible.

Those sunburns come back to bite you in the A___ in about 20-30 years. We know this from personal experience in our house.

We always apply sunscreen before heading out and keep a tube of it in a zip lock bag in the "secret" compartment.

 

yep, I win the darwin award for trying to be cool....3 days after taking delivery, I took a 13hr trip to Maine, top down the whole way....about 8+ hours of sunlight. oops.

 

oh yea, somebody needs to change the banner that I have...and make one with the sunscreen x'ed out and the sunburnt one checked...that'd be me.

 

hahaha, sorry, I don't mean to spam this thread...but look at the Google adwords on the page....kind of ironic.

 

Reminds me of my first week of ownership. My wife and I took a nice coastal driver up to Santa Barbara - no sunscreen. We got to enjoy peeling skin on our necks and face for the next week.

I now keep a bottle in the trunk.