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Originally Posted by eslai
No! Don't leave Convertible Land! It loves you!!
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It may love me, but I don't love it as much any more. The top assembly on older boxsters can cause as many headaches and cost just as much as major engine or suspension work.
If I lived where you live, it would be mandatory. Your weather in SD
demands a rag top!
However, I live in what we affectionately call, "Sauna City, USA". Our humidity levels exceed 85% for nearly eight months out of the year. And it rains here all the time, making it 100% humidity. Throw in the unbearable heat one endures with the top down in the summer when it's not raining, and you own a car you can't really enjoy more than about three or four weeks out of the year.
So, weighing the repairs/hassles of a rag top with actual days of use, it becomes a silly contest of will to keep a boxster when one could upgrade to a cayman s and get a hard top, more structural rigidity, styling that is superior to the 911 (IMO) and a much larger engine (2.5 -> 3.4).
and now, we return to the unbearable discussion of the ghastly expensive of the Zeintech top...