For the last fortnight I have seen a new Mercedes soft top parking in the streets around my work and with our wonderful weather, car is parked up with the roof left down.
Now if I had a convertible, I would drive it as much as possible with roof down but I would NEVER leave it parked on a public street in Glasgow with the roof down.
Its obviously electric folding roof so no effort involved - is it a case of "look at me" or what? (Incidentally owner is guy who looks older than retirement age)
Any soft top owners out there? What did you do when parking?
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Close it. I used to leave the old one with the top down sometimes (supermarket for example) but it was a banger that wouldn't make anybody jealous.
In some areas they would use an open convertible as a litter bin I'm sure.
I rarely leave mine open on the drive either. Too many incontinent jackdaws. Boy can they poop.
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I remember someone parking some open top car in the staff car park. Later that day the painters were up on scaffold or something to paint the rails. They dropped a whole can of silver paint into his car...
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Vandalism is the main issue.
The car is no more nor less likely to be stolen and in fact I suspect less likely to be broken into, it being open and visible already.
It's the idiots and bitter & jealous that one has to worry about.
I have had several soft tops and mostly left them opened, more worried about rain than anything else.
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I’m selective.
Today the roof went down at 8 when I left for work, was left down in the office car park, when I went out for lunch and again for a drink after work. It went up again at about 8 this evening when I got home. But W Sussex is hardly a hotbed of crime. Why I don’t I put it up every time I park? It only takes 15/20 seconds after all. Not sure really; partly misplaced mechanical sympathy I guess; there’s a lot of mechanical activity. Partly the complete opposite of look at me - the action of putting up/down the roof attracts attention that’s not necessary. And partly laziness :) I leave it down if I pop out into Chichester at lunchtime, or to a supermarket. But if I was doing a weeks shop I probably wouldn’t. Would I leave it on the street in a city? Almost certainly not. And if there a chance of rain, it’ll always go up
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Down.
Mindless impulse slashing was I recall a much greater risk than theft.
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A couple of years ago we walked into the car park at our local village pub to find a 3 Series ragtop struggling to reverse into a parking space (it's a very small car park with trees down one side). Eventually the guy managed it and sat there while he dropped the roof.
He wasn't a local, otherwise he might have wondered why it was the only space that was free and the ground was covered in pigeon poo.
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Bat poo 🦇 is even worse than bird poo. There's a huge tree in the city centre of Cairns, Queensland, where the locals never park. The tourists only park there once...!
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Topless or cover up? - Manatee
