Vert Owners...Windows Down and Flapping Cloth
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Melting Slicks
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From: Reno/Sparks Nevada
Vert Owners...Windows Down and Flapping Cloth
When I drive with the windows down the material that lays on the convertible hatch flaps up and down and is annoying. Any fix for this or am I missing something?
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Yep - my rule for the convertible is if it's nice enought to drive with the windows down, then it's nice enough to drive with the top down too. That flap protects the rear window when the top is folded....so fold the top!
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From: Keller, TX
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Originally Posted by blacksedan87
Yep - my rule for the convertible is if it's nice enought to drive with the windows down, then it's nice enough to drive with the top down too. That flap protects the rear window when the top is folded....so fold the top!
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From: "This is not a psychotic episode, but a cleansing moment of clarity."
I've wondered what that flap of fabric is for! I was thinking it was to lessen the glare on the rear window that might happen when the sun reflects off the paint when the top is up.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Reno/Sparks Nevada
It was about 90 after I got off of work. Sun was still blazing so I didn't want to drop the top. It's about 20 miles to home so I just dropped the windows. Seems there should be a way to secure that flap somehow. Glad I'm not the only one that has a wind flap. Well, at least I've been driving it in to work lately with the top down. There isn't a better way to get to work and around 7:30am I know people are wondering what the he!! I do for a living. I can't help but feel like I'm on top of the world, top down, rowing the gears and listening to the exhaust while everbody else is on cell phones, staring at their hoods drinking coffee. I don't even mind the traffic so much when I'm in the Vet.
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From: No place to legally ride ATV's NJ
Previous owner of my ride must have driven that way ALL the time. My cover is an entirely different color thanks to that stupid cloth beating it up! 
Put a little sunscreen on, and DropTheTop!
Put a little sunscreen on, and DropTheTop!
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Originally Posted by TripleBlackxTwo
Nothing looks worse to me than a convertible at speed with windows down and the top 'puffed' up from the wind.
But the top doesn't puff up on the C5 Verts with the windows down. 
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I only have two modes of driving my car:
top up, windows up, AC on!
or
top down..
there's never a time when I have had the windows down with the top up while driving, if it's too hot to drop the top then it's too hot to drive without the AC on!
top up, windows up, AC on!
or
top down..
there's never a time when I have had the windows down with the top up while driving, if it's too hot to drop the top then it's too hot to drive without the AC on!
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From: Frederick Md
I have only owned my C5 (a 98 btw) since February of this year and to be honest I cut the damn flap off before the end of March...
I have no intention of selling the car...so its one very cheap modification...
I have no clue as to why its there ...no glare, etc...
My other 2 Corvette Convertibles sure as hell did not have a flap....
Bob G.
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76 & 79 Coupes....
The 76 is modified so rear window comes out like the 68-72 coupes ..but the tops never come off either coupe
I have no intention of selling the car...so its one very cheap modification...
I have no clue as to why its there ...no glare, etc...
My other 2 Corvette Convertibles sure as hell did not have a flap....
Bob G.
64 72 & 98 Verts
76 & 79 Coupes....
The 76 is modified so rear window comes out like the 68-72 coupes ..but the tops never come off either coupe
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From: Hoover Alabama
Originally Posted by blacksedan87
Yep - my rule for the convertible is if it's nice enought to drive with the windows down, then it's nice enough to drive with the top down too. That flap protects the rear window when the top is folded....so fold the top!
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From: No place to legally ride ATV's NJ
Originally Posted by 24695bob
I have only owned my C5 (a 98 btw) since February of this year and to be honest I cut the damn flap off before the end of March...
I have no intention of selling the car...so its one very cheap modification...
I have no intention of selling the car...so its one very cheap modification...
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From: manahawkin,nj
Originally Posted by MrRenoman
When I drive with the windows down the material that lays on the convertible hatch flaps up and down and is annoying. Any fix for this or am I missing something?
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From: Arlington, Texas
Originally Posted by gr8vet
Windows down will rub the paint off of two spots on fiberglass, ask my friend. 
I wonderer for a year how them two spots got there on mine. 
I wonderer for a year how them two spots got there on mine. I've a dark spot on the lid behind the driver seat on mine - won't buff out either !! 
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From: Fayetteville GA
Originally Posted by blacksedan87
Yep - my rule for the convertible is if it's nice enought to drive with the windows down, then it's nice enough to drive with the top down too. That flap protects the rear window when the top is folded....so fold the top!
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From: Galloway Twp. NJ
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Originally Posted by 24695bob
I have only owned my C5 (a 98 btw) since February of this year and to be honest I cut the damn flap off before the end of March...
I have no intention of selling the car...so its one very cheap modification...
I have no clue as to why its there ...no glare, etc...
I have no intention of selling the car...so its one very cheap modification...
I have no clue as to why its there ...no glare, etc...
note to self, don't buy '98 vert from 24695bob.
