Hey Barry! Your car looks exactly like mine...unfortunately including the top retracting problem. Mine doesn't go down very low either. I'll have to check it to make sure it's folding properly. Unfortunately, I'm on a business trip to the mainland...for TWO WEEKS!!!

I've had the exact same problems both with connecting my cover and getting it to stay down in the rear while driving. This could be the source of the problem.

 

BTW, Barry, what happened to your signature photo?

 

Interesting point here guys, my #38 2000, one of the 1st off the line, has no probs with the tonneau cover (get the name right guys ) but has a totally stuffed rear window. Maybe the later models are not folding as far down in order to avoid too strong a crease in the rear window and stop it from rubbing against the well cover - dunno, just a thought.

 

Barry, I think mine might be the Utah was refering to. Thanks for the info in this thread. I have only put my top down about 5 times (never driven) in my heated garage, So I don't think it's a temp issue. There is no way in hell my boot cover even comes close to fitting on. I have yet to bring it in to the dealer to adjust. The weather is to crappy/ salt all over the roads, have to wait till spring.

 

Does anyone with a Helm's man. know? Does it mention if there is an adjustment? I would love not to have to got the damn dealer for this.

 

2kturkey - BOOT COVER is the correct generic term for a piece that covers the retracted top only. TONNEAU COVER is the correct generic term for a flat cover that covers the entire cockpit while the top is down. Rick and Luder (I believe) are working on a prototype aftermarket version of the latter.

I think the semantic confusion may come from the fact that Honda (unfortunately) incorrectly refers to the boot cover as a tonneau in some of it's literature.

BTW, for those having trouble with their boot cover: I find a procedure like the one described by Muz works but I do it even simpler - I don't bother with the attachment snaps behind the seat. I've even considered getting rid of those posts because they kind of get in the way when I'm sliding the boot into place. The rear clips always hold this way I guess because there's no pulling stress from the front. My boot has never lifted or come loose at speed.

Like other posters here, I also wish the top retracted a little farther into the well. I think it's mainly the fact that it sticks up that causes me to want to use the boot at all. I agree that that the boot takes up way too much trunk space.

 

Mine came loose once, but I think it was my fault for not properly cramming the thing down in the space. I also start with the passanger side and all the studs fall right into place.

 

Nice try Jim but for those who speak the queen's English the boot is what you septics (get out your rhyming slang book to work out what that one means ) call the trunk.

I can assure you that no cover is required for the boot!

With regard to dictionary definitions both Webster and the Macquarie (Aussie) dictionaries describe it as thus:
the rear seating compartment of an automobile / the rear body or compartment of a motor car with seats for passengers

Granted that the Stook as a 2 seater does not have rear seats but I am sure that the area that the tonneau covers would have also been coverd by a rear seat cover.

Anyway, the semantics are not that important - what is important that we must all be cognisant that even English speaking countries have subtle differences in their vocabularies. Tonneau seems to be internationally accepted whilst boot is peculiar to North America.

 

From http://www.dictionary.com

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2kturkey,

One thing is for sure, I don't think any of us on the board can "Sit" in the roof well compartment

I'm glad to see so many comments for everyone. I'm going to take mine back to the dealer this afternoon or tomorrow.

Thanks,