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My 'old' 996 C4 cab had a hardtop. I took it off [with help] on day 1 and gave it back [with help] on the day I part exchanged it for my 997. I had an 04 986 - never thought of getting a hardtop.

Never used the hardtop on the 996, the car was warm enough without the hardtop and occasional icing or misting of the plastic rear screen was no big problem.

A Porsche cabriolet is to be used as an open top as and when the weather permits. IMHO, you should keep your money or spent it on something else.
 
Obviously it is your choice whether to get a hardtop or not, but do you know there is a aftermarket replacement softtop that has a heated glass windscreen and does not require the 'chop' to lower? There is an extensive thread on Boxa.net. About the same price as a used hardtop maybe a bit more ~£800-900, or it was when I was looking.
PS John, not all OPCs give the 10% discount, e.g. Aberdeen, but Exeter do and they used to mail out FOC.
 
ORIGINAL: Paul Fraser

Obviously it is your choice whether to get a hardtop or not, but do you know there is a aftermarket replacement softtop that has a heated glass windscreen and does not require the 'chop' to lower? There is an extensive thread on Boxa.net. About the same price as a used hardtop maybe a bit more ~£800-900, or it was when I was looking.
PS John, not all OPCs give the 10% discount, e.g. Aberdeen, but Exeter do and they used to mail out FOC.
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Just my thinking but you have the best of both worlds if you have a hardtop - spend £8-9 hundred pounds on a new glass back window and you wont get your money back when you part with the car[:(] Spend the same mondy on a hardtop and with a bit of luck you be be able to recoupe your Hardtop money when you part with the car. Add Cambridge to the list of 10% PC discounters[;)]
 
ORIGINAL: Paul Fraser

Obviously it is your choice whether to get a hardtop or not, but do you know there is a aftermarket replacement softtop that has a heated glass windscreen and does not require the 'chop' to lower?
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Details also in the sticky "Plastic Window Replacement" at the top of this forum [:)]
 
ORIGINAL: jeegnesh

800-900 for a hardtop then personally its not for me. Appreciate the info though.
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I think you will find 8-9 hundred not bad for second hand - try buying one from new and that will set you back well north of £2k with vat etc. so second hand value is approdx 35% of new[;)]
 
I live in London and park my Boxster on the street, so I wouldn't dream of leaiving it without the hardtop. So for me, it's a security thing more than anything else. BTW - It is possible to remove and replace it on your own... carefully. But it's not easy and there is no way my g/f could remove it alone.

My biggest grumble about the hardtop is the awful design of the attaching spindles, etc. We also own a Toyota MR2 Roadster and the roof on that is so much better designed that it is laughable - especially when you think that the Toyota cost something like £18K new and the Boxster £50K. I guess Porsche may have changed the fitting on the newer model, but if not then they really need to "borrow" a Toyota and have a peek at how it should be done! Even the (specialist) dealer managed to break a spindle showing me how to fit it.


 
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