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Hi Guys
I have a small bodyshop and we have a S2000 in for respray, it came in with a hardtop on we have removed this, but cant seem to get the soft top to come up, is there a procedure for operation or is simply just press the switch in the centre consul
tried it with the windows down and up doors closed engine running, not running etc
Does the bootlid need to be on the car ? as it is removed, does the soft top perhaps think the boot is open ??
I have a small bodyshop and we have a S2000 in for respray, it came in with a hardtop on we have removed this, but cant seem to get the soft top to come up, is there a procedure for operation or is simply just press the switch in the centre consul
tried it with the windows down and up doors closed engine running, not running etc
Does the bootlid need to be on the car ? as it is removed, does the soft top perhaps think the boot is open ??
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E-brake must be on.
Trunk operation is not linked.
Hardtop harness must be unplugged (likely hanging off the hardtop right now so you should be good here)
If you are painting the rear quarter panels, the interior needs to be gutted and soft top removed to access the trim mounting bolts.
Trunk operation is not linked.
Hardtop harness must be unplugged (likely hanging off the hardtop right now so you should be good here)
If you are painting the rear quarter panels, the interior needs to be gutted and soft top removed to access the trim mounting bolts.
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No it can not, many body shops cheat here. You can leave the soft top and frame in the car, but will need to take out all plastics to access the rainrail and trim rail mounting bolts.
There are 3 long steel plates, 11 nuts total, which bolt the back of the top to the car. The back of the top (the rainrail) is blocking the bolts you need to remove to get that black trim rail out.
Each interior piece overlaps the next. Take your time, abd whatever you do DO NOT separate the plastic roll bar covers. They are plastic welded from the factory, and once apart not even construction adhesive will hold the halves together.
Each roll bar has 8 bolts with 12mm heads, remove the bar and plastic halves as a whole.
Note shiny chrome trim rail mounting bolts:
There are 3 long steel plates, 11 nuts total, which bolt the back of the top to the car. The back of the top (the rainrail) is blocking the bolts you need to remove to get that black trim rail out.
Each interior piece overlaps the next. Take your time, abd whatever you do DO NOT separate the plastic roll bar covers. They are plastic welded from the factory, and once apart not even construction adhesive will hold the halves together.
Each roll bar has 8 bolts with 12mm heads, remove the bar and plastic halves as a whole.
Note shiny chrome trim rail mounting bolts:
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No it can not, many body shops cheat here. You can leave the soft top and frame in the car, but will need to take out all plastics to access the rainrail and trim rail mounting bolts.
There are 3 long steel plates, 11 nuts total, which bolt the back of the top to the car. The back of the top (the rainrail) is blocking the bolts you need to remove to get that black trim rail out.
Each interior piece overlaps the next. Take your time, abd whatever you do DO NOT separate the plastic roll bar covers. They are plastic welded from the factory, and once apart not even construction adhesive will hold the halves together.
Each roll bar has 8 bolts with 12mm heads, remove the bar and plastic halves as a whole.
Note shiny chrome trim rail mounting bolts:
There are 3 long steel plates, 11 nuts total, which bolt the back of the top to the car. The back of the top (the rainrail) is blocking the bolts you need to remove to get that black trim rail out.
Each interior piece overlaps the next. Take your time, abd whatever you do DO NOT separate the plastic roll bar covers. They are plastic welded from the factory, and once apart not even construction adhesive will hold the halves together.
Each roll bar has 8 bolts with 12mm heads, remove the bar and plastic halves as a whole.
Note shiny chrome trim rail mounting bolts:
Billman thanks for the advice we will look at this on monday, so just to be clear we dont need to strip as much as in the photo above
we can still leave the top in place ?
we need to remove the plastics and the tree steel plates and that will be enough access to the plastic trim ?
and dont remove plastic rollbar covers
cant paint up to that trim as it touches the bodywork and the paint will overlap, we dont mask this type of trim, just a slight shudder at the thought of removing the whole soft top lol
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