"Chopping" the back plastic window everytime you lower it?

[YellowJacket]

Has anyone owned a car with a manual top? I had a BMW 325ic with a manual top, and it was so much work to put it down. 2 people were preferred, and if you only had 1, you had to have some pretty intense stretching abilities.

Spending 2 seconds chopping the top is NOTHING compared to owning a manual top, so THAT is the point of the power top.

That being said, I still agree that they could have done something to prevent this annoyance (well, I guess they did; they went to the glass window!).

[Perfectlap]

for Summer/Spring I was thinking of fastening a clear plastic rod, like the kind that open and close blinds, to the inside of the window via velcro over the axis where the bend should occur. With perhaps a 'rip cord' strung beneath the windblocker. As the top is lowered you pull on the cord and it forces the even bending of the plastic window with out having to get out of the car.

[Porschekid]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

for Summer/Spring I was thinking of fastening a clear plastic rod, like the kind that open and close blinds, to the inside of the window via velcro over the axis where the bend should occur. With perhaps a 'rip cord' strung beneath the windblocker. As the top is lowered you pull on the cord and it forces the even bending of the plastic window with out having to get out of the car.

um...

[jwocky]

Originally Posted by Porschekid

um...

LOL macguyver! Great post.

[socratic]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

for Summer/Spring I was thinking of fastening a clear plastic rod, like the kind that open and close blinds, to the inside of the window via velcro over the axis where the bend should occur. With perhaps a 'rip cord' strung beneath the windblocker. As the top is lowered you pull on the cord and it forces the even bending of the plastic window with out having to get out of the car.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking earlier this morning! Let me know how it goes. I'm buried in work; otherwise I'd be trying it.

[Perfectlap]

why is there a picture of Patrick Swayze?

[YellowJacket]

Originally Posted by socratic

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking earlier this morning! Let me know how it goes. I'm buried in work; otherwise I'd be trying it.

You were thinking about your convertible top this morning, and you're in Canada??? You must be thinking wishfully; I live 500+ miles south of you, and the only thing I thought about this morning was how to keep all the snow from getting in my car when I put my window down to pay tolls :-)

[socratic]

Originally Posted by YellowJacket

You were thinking about your convertible top this morning, and you're in Canada??? You must be thinking wishfully; I live 500+ miles south of you, and the only thing I thought about this morning was how to keep all the snow from getting in my car when I put my window down to pay tolls :-)

:ah:

I live in a bit of Paradise known as Vancouver. It hit 18C, which is 64F. A light jacket was all that was needed for top down driving. It's been like this every day for like a week!

:dance:

[Porschekid]

Originally Posted by socratic

:ah:

I live in a bit of Paradise known as Vancouver. It hit 18C, which is 64F. A light jacket was all that was needed for top down driving. It's been like this every day for like a week!

:dance:

So Canada is the one that donated us all of this cold weather...

[CA_Boxster]

I had the same experience where my plastic window cracked a little at the top center. I bought it used, but I assume the original owner didn't do any chopping. The dealer also told me that they wouldn't cover it because the window had not been trained properly to fold. This seems to be a common problem. I was told by the dealer and by an independent shop that, if the chop is done from the outset, after a while the plastic "remembers" how to fold correctly.

I tried training my 4 year old window to fold correctly last summer. It did start doing it, but only when the plastic was warm. Right now it's back to creasing the window in the top center.