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Well crap, we figured it would happen one day, but just weren’t expecting this day to be it. It rained on our XLR.
We never take the XLR out of its nice garage if we suspect the weather will be anything but great. Today was no exception – high 70’s F, bright sun peeking between fluffy white clouds, good forecast, clean radar images. There we were zipping along a major highway, top down and enjoying channel 60 Soul Street on XM, and lo and behold an ugly little cloud appears out of nowhere and proceeds to dump on us.
There were no exits in close proximity, so it was off onto the paved shoulder of the road to raise the top. We got our usual amount of extreme gawkers, but we must say we’re not used to them tearing by at 70+ mph watching us instead of the road. That made us nervous.
Once our rain barrier was in place we needed to re-enter the flow of heavy traffic. Kicked the accelerator, the back sat down, the front went up, our bodies were pressed into the seats and in a matter of seconds we had neatly merged (can only imagine what it would have been like to do that in a “V”).
Then we were faced with a very practical problem. Where the hell was the windshield wiper control and how does it work – it had never been used before! Actually, as we sped along we were impressed with the way the water was rolling off the windshield and how good the visibility was even before we managed to engage the wipers. Yes, we can now confirm to all who may have wondered – the XLR does indeed have windshield wipers and they do work.
Sooo, our next activity with the car will be to give it a thorough cleaning and bring it back to its normal pristine condition. And hopefully we’ll be able to go another 1 ½ years before we have to use those wipers again.
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Best regards,
Ed and Sandra
We never take the XLR out of its nice garage if we suspect the weather will be anything but great. Today was no exception – high 70’s F, bright sun peeking between fluffy white clouds, good forecast, clean radar images. There we were zipping along a major highway, top down and enjoying channel 60 Soul Street on XM, and lo and behold an ugly little cloud appears out of nowhere and proceeds to dump on us.
There were no exits in close proximity, so it was off onto the paved shoulder of the road to raise the top. We got our usual amount of extreme gawkers, but we must say we’re not used to them tearing by at 70+ mph watching us instead of the road. That made us nervous.
Once our rain barrier was in place we needed to re-enter the flow of heavy traffic. Kicked the accelerator, the back sat down, the front went up, our bodies were pressed into the seats and in a matter of seconds we had neatly merged (can only imagine what it would have been like to do that in a “V”).
Then we were faced with a very practical problem. Where the hell was the windshield wiper control and how does it work – it had never been used before! Actually, as we sped along we were impressed with the way the water was rolling off the windshield and how good the visibility was even before we managed to engage the wipers. Yes, we can now confirm to all who may have wondered – the XLR does indeed have windshield wipers and they do work.
Sooo, our next activity with the car will be to give it a thorough cleaning and bring it back to its normal pristine condition. And hopefully we’ll be able to go another 1 ½ years before we have to use those wipers again.
Best regards,
Ed and Sandra
