Hve you installed a hard top fixing kit?

[Guest]

I am buying a hard top, but want to know how easy it is to fit the fixing kit. Also, is it possible to remove one from one car and put it on another?

 

[Tool Pants]

All you need to buy is a left and right inserts, and a bolt for each.

If you have access to the donor car then you can remove the bolts and inserts and put them on your car.

These inserts are what lets you lock the rear of the top to the car.

 

[oliver]

A second hand hard top is unlikely to fit perfectly, without some adjustment. However, it should fit well enough to transport home until you, or a specialist, can adjust it correctly.

 

[JCB..]

A second hand hard top is unlikely to fit perfectly, without some adjustment. However, it should fit well enough to transport home until you, or a specialist, can adjust it correctly.

They are all the same shape and size and unless, it's been pranged, so is the car.

There is no adjustment other than moving it around before clamping the two side levers and locking the one at the top of the windscreen.

JCB..

 

[oliver]

No, I've tried to swap hard tops over a couple of times and they have never fitted perfectly first time.

On our first Boxster I ordered the hard top after the car. It took Lovetts an hour to fit and adjust it to get a perfect seal and no rattles.

 

[JCB..]

No, I've tried to swap hard tops over a couple of times and they have never fitted perfectly first time.

The two slots in the windscreen frame are fixed and the two centering journals that fit into them are fixed by a single screw. It might be possible to loosen the screw and move the journals but I would not have thought by more than a millimetre or two at most

The clamp is similarly screwed in to the windscreen frame and so is the lever assembly screwed into the hardtop.

The two side fixing assemblies are screwed into the hardtop and the sockets that their pins fit into are fixed into the body of the car.

With the top in place and none of the fixing mechanisms clamped it is possible to move the top around quite a bit before finally tightening the clamps. Given the degree of motion possible by doing this as opposed to any movement made possible by loosening any of the "fixed" fittings I rather doubt that there would be anything to gain by attempting to resite them.

I further doubt that any OPC technician did anything other than move around the hard top before finally securing it.


JCB..