Ohnothimagen

First, I am not sure the best place to post this, so please feel free to move to another sub-forum if needed.

I've had our 2006 S2K for just over two years. Two days ago I dropped the top to enjoy some sun and as the top was retracting (not even 1/2 open) a bolt fell from it and into the driver's seat. It actually hit me on the shoulder and fell between my back and the back of the seat.

I put the top back up and tried to inspect everything to see where it came from. Not only are there no visible signs of anything missing, but there aren't event any similar style bolts that I can see anywhere in the frame.

If I could actually figure out how to post images I would. I would describe this as a matte black machine bolt, rounded Phillips head, approximately 3/4" long. Anyone have a clue?

Thanks,
Rex

Car Analogy

You can place the photo on a photo hosting site, then post a link.

Since its matte black, that sure sounds like its from the tip mechanism, not some other random bolt that somehow got caught up there.

How thick is this bolt?

Chris_Lum

what immediately comes to mind is the bolt that holds the soft top latch to the soft top. open your soft top latch and see if 2 bolts on each side are still there. This car doesn't use many 3/4" long black phillip head bolts. As mentioned, there are 2 phillips bolts on each latch, one is counter sunk and one is normal round head.

Ohnothimagen

Chris, thanks for your input on this. I will check into it. The reason I didn't suspect the latch, even though I did check it, was that there has only been one bolt (counter sunk) on the passenger side so only seeing the same thing on the driver's side didn't raise my suspicions but that makes sense. Of course that means I'll need to find a replacement for the missing one on the passenger side.

Rex