Since we had such a beautiful night last night here in South Florida, I decided to bust the boot out of it's home in the closest and pop that puppy on my S. While I was putting it on, I was wondering what would happen if you tried to put the top up after the boot was snapped on. Would the back end of it just pop out from that lip that it gets tucked under?

Has anyone accidently done this?

~Kim~

 

I don't know how strong the top actually is.. I don't actually see it to cause much harm to it, but I really suggest not trying to do it often. I have accidentally tried lowering the top for a second w/ the E brake on w/o unlatching the latches... I freaked out for a few seconds and just prayed nothing bad happened. It still works fine.. knock on wood

 

If you try to put the top up without taking the boot off it won't go up. It will hit the boot and then not go any further. I use my boot so rarely that I sometimes forget it's on there and have learned this from experience.

 

> I have accidentally tried lowering the top for a second w/ the E brake on w/o unlatching the latches... I freaked out for a few seconds and just prayed nothing bad happened. It still works fine.. knock on wood

I'm sure the mechanics are designed for a mishap such as this. I've done it more than once.

Gerry
Milton, FL

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gswetsky

I'm sure the mechanics are designed for a mishap such as this.

 

[QUOTE]
I'm sure the mechanics are designed for a mishap such as this.

 

jeffbrig- dont you think a fuse would blow first?

 

Depends on the type of fuse and its rating. Motors draw a large surge of current when they switch on. For example, a 4 amp motor could easily draw 20 amps of stall current. Generally, you'll have a slow blow fuse on something that has huge transient spikes, which aren't really damaging because of their short duration. Whether or not the fuse they selected would protect against this specific situation in the S2000 is hard to say. The fuse may only blow if there is an actual short.

That said, I would expect it to take a LONG time to actually damage something, i.e. MUCH longer than it takes for the top to go up normally.

Jeff