Need Advice on a GAHH Top - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

MNBoxster · 01-18-2007, 02:36 PM

Hi,

I too find a glass rear window appealing, but am concerned about the GAHH top. It's interesting to hear of an installer so adamantly against them.

IIRC, putting the Top in the Service position is not merely inconvenient. I believe we had either GAHH or a distributor (CabrioWorld?) post a msg. here indicating that a mechanic would need to dismantle the top slightly to access the engine top and that it would add approx. $50 to a service.

That may be of little concern to someone who doesn't work on their own car, but for those who do, like me, adding $50 to change a $20 Air Filter, check the Power Steering Fluid, and such is pretty much a deal breaker.

It will be interesting to watch and see how this develops. But, I would have no qualms in replacing the vinyl window with another one at all since my top is down 99.9% of the time anyway, and since the original vinyl window is now on year 8 and still doing OK...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

KevinH1990 · 01-18-2007, 06:11 PM

Ed,

Please keep us updated no matter which option you choose. I'm hoping that I'm a few years behind you as far as top replacement is concerned, but I'd like to hear about your expeience with Custom Tops as well as the GAHH product.

pecivil · 01-19-2007, 10:08 AM

very interesting.....when my car was getting the GT-3 front put on and painted, the paint guy took the liberty of finding a place that would put in a new plastic window (since mine is cracked and he thought it looked ugly!) at their quote was only $250 installed? $600 sounds way too high.

Anybody else get a new plastic window installed? What did you pay for it??

Boxter · 01-19-2007, 01:44 PM

300 in cetral NJ by the former owner...

FrayAdjacent · 01-19-2007, 02:08 PM

I had wondered about simply having the plastic window replaced without replacing the whole top.... But my car's PO didn't take very good care of the top, and it has some rough spots. There are no cracks or holes in the plastic window, but it's definitely not had a good life of care.

Do the GAHH plastic window tops still inhibit getting into the engine compartment? I'd really rather be able to access my engine, since I'm pretty much a self maintainer.