TECH Q: Do Caterhams' roofs leak??

TECH Q: Do Caterhams' roofs leak??

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bigairbox

Original Poster:

51 posts

260 months

Thursday 7th August 2003
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If I was to use a 7 as an everyday car will i have to drill drainage holes in the floor for water drips and ingress? .....I live in sunny Glasgow you see

456mgt

2,505 posts

273 months

Friday 8th August 2003
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The temptation to use 'bears' and 'woods' is immense! The weak spot on mine was the area between the roof and the top of the door, with rain being forced through the gap, though this was more annoying than saturating.

You must be a double-hard bastard to contemplate using a 7 all year round. In Scotland too! Used mine daily for a few months over Spring & Summer, enough to convince me I wasn't hard enough for this. Roof up in the pissing rain with those joke wipers is not a great place to be IMO. Many times I wondered whether it wasn't better to throw the roof away and buy biking gear.

sagalout

18,909 posts

289 months

Friday 8th August 2003
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Go quick enough and you don't need the roof.
But when you stop at the traffic lights and the bloke in the Transit next to you looks down to see you sitting in a "Bucket" seat...
Roof pretty well watertight on my old 7, except that top corner of the windscreen area as prev mentioned
prob is, it's like sitting in a coffin, looking out of a letter box and all the noise seems to be kept inside the cockpit. bit of a pain but pleasant in a masochistic sort of a way.

nevpugh308

4,414 posts

276 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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Does the Pope sh*t in the woods ?