I just bought a virgin 2000 with 26K on it and i love it. Best car i ever bought.
I am having a bit of a problem with the convertible top though. When I go over 75 MPG, it howls right where it seals with the windshield. I checked out the latches and there is no adjustment in them to make them pull tighter. When i reach up and pull down on the roof a little it goes away. I just wanted to know if anyone else is having this problem and if so how they fixed it. I was thinking about making a spacer to move the female side of the latch down a little bit but id really like to know if there is a less ghetto fix out there.

 

try some shinxu grease on the seals or you could get some heat shrink and increase the width of the hooks that latch in

 

Where do i get "shinxu" grease?

 

1/4 inch plastic tubing over the hooks will give you the needed tightening. Very inexpensive fix.

 

Tubing worked GREAT. Thanks for the help.

 

A more "Honda" fix would be to install the strikers used with the hardtop, as these are stronger/stiffer than the softtop ones. If the tubing works for you, though...

 

I have the same problem as you. Honda is currently replacing the latch or "Strykers" are now. I will let you know if this fixes the wind noise.

 

I had the same problems, and it seems that the latches and strikers aren't the best quailty and that is what's causing the problems. I fixed my problem by adjusting the position of the top in the up poition slighty so it stopped a bit further than normal, so when I close the top, it makes a tighter connection. However, I think both need to be replaced, and as someone else mentioned, using the hardtop strikers are better.

 

This is probably a stupid question, but where did you get the 1/4 plastic tubeing? My top is doing the same thing and i would like to fix it. Thanks in advance.

 

ditto, anyone have any pics of the plastic tubbing. or the stickers?