Sazzy

Thanks ?

Thanks, I've been meaning to do it for ages.

If you have the problem of the roof not seating in the rain channel correctly, it may be beacuse the tension cable within the piping of the roof has snapped or corroded. If you have already tried replacing the elastic, of which there are numerous other threads on here on how to do, this may be your problem instead.

A new cable can be had for about £20, the part number is : 986 561 921 00

Open the roof about halfway, look at the base of the B pillar and you will see the bottom eyelet of the cable. Undo the screw and if you can pull the cable then its broken inside. It's a good idea to put a cloth underneath to avoid losing any screws etc down the drain hole!

To get to the top of the cable you will have to remove the front part of the roof from the frame as it is hidden inside behind the top of the window. Firstly remove the two roof latches:

Then the screws along the top rail:

Then the two at the corners that hold the side seal on:

Pull the seal completely away from the front and the side you're working on:

Under the side seal is a plastic retainer with four screws that needs to be removed, looks like this :

Under that are more phillips screws with one hidden under a piece of rubber seal that you need to pull off, took me a while to figure out why I couldn't undo it with all visable screws removed!

Now the fun bit, you need to carefully pull the roof back from the frame, there's a lot of adhesive but you will see underneath an aluminium plate with the top of the cable attached to a spring in shrinkwrap, which you will need to split :

Undo the top eyelet from the spring and pull it through the piping, here was mine, or at least half of it ....

Thread your new cable through the piping, attatch to the spring, and re wrap. I put the plastic back around it and then electrical tape to hold it.

The cable comes with the other eyelet unattacthed to allow you to thread it through so you will need to crimp it on. Then it's just a case of putting everything back together! 

My roof now sits perfectly on that side so I hope this helps some of you with this problem if you have tried other options. It's a shame Porsche didn't make it from galvanised steel would save a lot of hassle!  

Found a local car club and thought I'd head along to one of their meets to see what they were all about. There was some surprisingly nice metal there!

58 minutes ago, Menoporsche said:

There's a difference?

Haha, perhaps not..!

1 hour ago, the baron said:

Nice Aston in the car park too

It was a jag, xk I believe. 

58 minutes ago, el 3.2S said:

Looks warmer than 4c, there is a chap in shorts!

It was bitter, he is clearly nuts or a postman

1 minute ago, Southy said:

Down when driving up when parked

 

Yes, my paranoia is bad enough plus it's very trigger happy on the alarm, more so when the roof is down. It would have only been a matter of minutes before it shattered the sunday afternoon calm haha.

I don't leave it down when I park it anywhere.

Roof down drive out in the sun albeit 4 degrees. Thank god for toasty heaters!

Spot the Boxster 

Had a great woolley hat and scarf drive out and about after the car not being out of the garage for two weeks  !

Topped up the power steering fluid after noticing it was very low last week when I was having a nosey around and replacing the air filter. 

Changed the air filter which I've been meaning to do for ages and replaced the roof arms rubber bushes as one was badly perished. Seems to have helped the misalignment of the clamshell as it closed.

Nice drive out to Tintagel and fitted new wiper blades.

2 hours ago, Topbox said:

Black tac, like blue tac but stronger and discreet. Good to stop the perspex wind deflector rattling  too. Looses grip in really hot weather if used on glass.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-black-strength-adhesive-photographers/product-reviews/B0051BT40K

I've never heard of this! Good idea, thank you.

Finally got my hands on some fly catchers and fitted them! Car looks so much better. They seem a little too easy to just clip in, does anyone secure them with anything more? 

14 minutes ago, rowbos said:

I though for a minute you were directing abuse at someone - then I realised this was an external edit ?

Don't you get the edit option on your posts?

I don't get a chance, the edit option seems to disappear after a minute or so. 

Off *^

FINALLY found enough time to fix my snapped roof tension cable that was causing the roof edge to sit slightly out of the channel. No simple elastic fixes for me, oh no, that would be too easy!

I knew it wasn't going to be an easy job what with having to strip the canvas of of the frame at the front to get to the top of the cable but dear god it turned into a nightmare job. 6 hours later, lots of swearing and threats to sell the godamm thing and it's finally done. 

I'll see how I feel about the car in the morning 

5 minutes ago, RCS said:

Did you think 'Oh look a surprise anniversary present'     Hope you had a great lunch and many more anniversaries

Wow I wish! Thank you it was lovely 

Of course 

Thank you yes Mr Sazzy and I haha not quite a year yet for the car..

Thank you 

Drove out to Watergate bay today for our anniversary lunch. Parked up and this pulls up alongside 5 mins later 

1 hour ago, tartanwarrior said:

Got locked out of it. Due to having a temperamental locking system. Does as he likes given any given day... But hey ho wouldn't have him any other way he has character.

I like that yours is a 'he' ! I thought mine was the only one 

1 hour ago, Gutley said:

Dark jeans in this weather?

It wasn't that hot here today.

Gone for a dog walk in it