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

[doughep]

I'm thinking about a clear suction cup - the kind they make for hanging junk on the fridge.

Keep it in the oddments compartment (love that name!) with a cord on it. pop it on the plastic before you put the top down, keep the cord taut until passed the bend, peel off the suction cup and return it to the oddments compartment (it's not just fun to say, it's even fun to type). Don't have to get out of the car, just reach over the shoulder.

What do you guys think? If it works, the patent is mine. If it ruins your window, I'll deny all culpability.

Really, Iv'e been wanting to try this for a while - I'm just waitng for good top-down weather here in Maryland.

If anyone in a better clime wants to pioneer it, please let me know if it works . . .

- Pete

[Ronzi]

A friend of mine had an '84 Carrera Cabriolet ('83 was the 1st yr. of the Cab.) with a manual convertible top. Immaculate, low-mileage car, with an unmarked top and plastic window.
You wouldn't believe the ordeal he went through every (rare) time he put the top down. Lower part way, "chop" the window, lower it a little bit more, place a clean, white terry cloth towel over the window to prevent the plastic from scratching itself, then lower the top the rest of the way. Then install the top cover. About a 5 minute process of he had help, twice that if he had to run from side to side himself.

[Jeph]

I got this video of eBay and it shows exactly where on my car the top folding oddly (make that 'normally').

http://luve.darkcom.net/AUG.28%2000%20PORSCHE%20BOXSTER%20SILVER/boxster%20movie%201.MPG

This "chop" we all speak of is what got my insurance to pay for my new top! Had I let the top come down naturally and split my window, it would have been a "mechanical problem." Since I got out of the car and hit it, viola, comprehensive insurance kicks in. (Evidently that doesn't affect my rates either.)

[tomatjs]

It all boils down to a poor design problem. Why use plastic in the first place on a $45,000+ car? Folks in Detroit always used glass on their Mustangs and Chryslers.
had I known that the Boxsters were coming out with the glass window with the '03's, I would've waited a few more months for it: I bought my '02 in Feb. 2002, and I'm kicking myself every time I get out to "chop" silly.

[Perfectlap]

it surprises me that the aftermarket world hasn't devised an add on for this.
1997-2002 is a heck of allot of Boxsters.
I'm thinking a spring loaded clip that pops the window into the correct crease?
I wish I were an engineer, I'd be a millionaire.