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03-03-2010, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JDM ISH,Mar 3 2010, 04:36 PM

$1500? for the top and installed?? cause don't soft tops go for around $600?? if so then that's $900 for installation

Do you know that you need to gut the whole inside of the car to replace the soft top? Seats and all.
For most people it's a 10+ hr. job.
Billman has done many of them.
I'm amazed he still take them on, as it's so time consuming and tedious.

As the others have said, You won't get a better quality job than with Billman.

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03-03-2010, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by JDM ISH,Mar 3 2010, 03:36 PM

don't soft tops go for around $600?? if so then that's $900 for installation

guess again. as of now my cost is over 800.

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03-04-2010, 06:04 AM

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you maybe better off buying a whole used softtop with frame and just swapping that. its easier and faster than just swapping the fabric from what i have seen. it will be cheaper too.

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03-09-2010, 01:35 AM

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still searching i think honda needs 2 fix this you can clearly see where it rips it when u put the top down and up.

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03-09-2010, 04:38 AM

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check out the sticky TSB. If you were newer they would but not 7 years later.

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03-09-2010, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by bsomthin,Mar 9 2010, 05:35 AM

still searching i think honda needs 2 fix this you can clearly see where it rips it when u put the top down and up.

Think all you want lol but Honda will NOT fix it for you unless you pay them haha.
TSB is for 05+ even then you are unlikely to get it replaced, a 2003 not a shot.

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03-09-2010, 07:14 PM

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$400 shipped for a new glass window soft top on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/HONDA-S2000...=item35a6e3d876

Not sure what someone is going to charge for installation though. As others have said, it's tedious and time consuming. I'd anticipate at least $400-500 in labor.

Insurance?