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Making my hood more waterproof.
morcus - 7/12/12 at 03:36 PM

Since it really pissed it down a couple of weeks ago my roof had had quite alot of water on the inside and it never stops raining enough for me to get it dry. Is there something I can use to give it some extra water proofing? I've got some stuff for doing seude shoes in the cupboard, will that work?

loggyboy - 7/12/12 at 03:41 PM

How can you make something 'more' waterproof?!? lol

morcus - 7/12/12 at 03:45 PM

As in, I want less water to come through it. If you want to be pedantic about it, more resistent to water so that I get less wet going over speed bumps.

Peteff - 7/12/12 at 03:47 PM

Get something like Nikwax spray on tent sealer or similar if it's a fabric hood.

whitestu - 7/12/12 at 03:51 PM

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Get something like Nikwax spray on tent sealer or similar if it's a fabric hood.


I used something similar to this on mine. It seems to make it pretty water resistant.

Stu

morcus - 7/12/12 at 04:05 PM

Thanks, theres a camping shop by the chippy so I'll have a look in a moment when I go for my dinner.

Ivan - 7/12/12 at 04:11 PM

If the roof has hollows where water can pool, one of the first things to do is to but in tensioned battens to get rid of the hollows.

morcus - 7/12/12 at 04:19 PM

The tension seems pretty good and theres never water pooled on top, it's just when after it rained hard and solidly for a few days the other week it was like the inside of a tent with loads of drops of water hanging from the roof and it's usually raining, doesn't help that it gets almost no sun due to the way the street runs.

kendo - 7/12/12 at 04:55 PM

You might also want to get some seam sealer, again as used on tents and run it along all the joins to stop the water seeping in.

mcerd1 - 7/12/12 at 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by kendo
You might also want to get some seam sealer, again as used on tents and run it along all the joins to stop the water seeping in.

and put it anywhere its in direct contact with the support frame too

this is the stuff you'd use for a tent (so I assume its good for softtops too)
you can get it in most decent outdoor shops:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdfpA7e9Zgc

just make sure and get the right version of the stuff, there is another version for silicon fabrics...



[Edited on 7/12/2012 by mcerd1]

PAUL FISHER - 7/12/12 at 05:28 PM

Ive used this stuff before on my TVR and my SRT6 soft tops, cleaner and re proofer

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Autoglym-500ml-Fabric-Maintenance-Pieces/dp/B005WIF4NI

morcus - 7/12/12 at 06:00 PM

Thanks, the guy at the camping shop reckomended me some tent stuff he reckoned work, but the auto Glym stuff looks to be about the same money So I'll go into town tomorrow as the tent stuff was just to water proof and not clean.