Hardtop?

[MR TWO]

I put my hardtop on yesterday after a last blast aound the Peak district with the top down.  Its always a sad momment that I put off - but its been frosty the last few mornings so the time had come.

Then today I'm driving along in this quiet (relatively) car, every year the change surprises me!  Its like a different car.

So what about you?

[1979scotte]

Ardent might find out?
No offense but I'm equally qualified to deal out the hardtop angst.

[Carolyn]

I love my hardtop.

I love my soft top.

I love having a different car twice a year.

There are those who only do soft top, and there are those who only do hard top.

I swing both ways

[1979scotte]

I love my hardtop.

I love my soft top.

I love having a different car twice a year.

There are those who only do soft top, and there are those who only do hard top.

I swing both ways

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[Treboeth]

I love my hardtop.

I love my soft top.

I love having a different car twice a year.

There are those who only do soft top, and there are those who only do hard top.

I swing both ways

Tell me more

Firework season= hardtop time for me.
On the way home a spent firework just missed my car, fecking muppets 

Keep forgetting to give the car door more of a push as the car is more airtight with the Hardtop on  (:< >

[Johnny5]

I'm on the lookout for a hardtop for the FL silver car I bought last week - my first 2, and my first convertible.  Not only is it a daily driver, but it's parked outside.  I don't want the frost damaging my hood over the winter.  Soon as one comes up in good nick at around £500, I'll have it.

I've just ordered some all season tyres from Camskill for use over winter, so I reckon I'll swap both the hardtop and the winter wheels on and off at roughly the same time.

[Bossworld]

Sold mine to pay for other repairs. Miss the improved visibility and it handles differently IMO.

Don't miss the rattles, or having to store it. Plus the car is garaged/SORN'd over winter so it seemed overkill.

[Ardent]

no comment

[Treboeth]

no comment

Glad to see Klopp gave you a run out today after you had a spin in the 2.

[BahnStormer]

I'm on the lookout for a hardtop for the FL silver car I bought last week - my first 2, and my first convertible.  Not only is it a daily driver, but it's parked outside.  I don't want the frost damaging my hood over the winter.  Soon as one comes up in good nick at around £500, I'll have it.

I've just ordered some all season tyres from Camskill for use over winter, so I reckon I'll swap both the hardtop and the winter wheels on and off at roughly the same time.

Johnny - do you need the fitting kit too? I was desperate for a hardtop last winter as my hood needed replacing, so I bought a silver one (sable car): the inside is brilliant, but the exterior is badly painted and a bit scratched up, so it would need a decent respray.

The hood has been done now in a Robbins Mohair, so I don't need think I'll need the hardtop again as I love being able to pop the roof off on a clear winter's day, but not sure what to do regarding the fitting kit: I was planning on selling it at the next club meet, so there's people who know what they're doing.

I bought it for £400 through the club, so it would be sold for the same (incl fitting and plastics), which leaves you ~£100 for the respray (although most estimates I had to get it done professionally were around £200 and I was still researching for Sable colour codes / people who had painted MR2's in sable when summer started and I hadn't thought about it again).

We need to take this into the Private Sales section, if I'm going to bring the sale forward: I'll update a link here - https://www.mr2roc.org/forum/index.php?topic=66375.0

[MR TWO]

Sold mine to pay for other repairs. Miss the improved visibility and it handles differently IMO.

Don't miss the rattles, or having to store it. Plus the car is garaged/SORN'd over winter so it seemed overkill.

I probably wouldn't have one either if I took the car off the road every winter and kept it in the garage. A good mohair top and fiting is a good deal more money than a hardtop (which you can resell), so I also think that I save money by having one and keeping my mohair in pristine condition.

The extra visibility is handy in these dark nights especially when reversing. but I doubt those four small clips change the stifness of the car much if at all. Though I'm not an engineer so I could easily be wrong.

I sometimes wonder if the hardtop squeaks are really noises from the car that you can't hear when the soft top is in use. The hardtop insulates the outdoor sound/ road noise thus revealing the squeaking dash?  LOL!

[Johnny5]

I'm on the lookout for a hardtop for the FL silver car I bought last week - my first 2, and my first convertible.  Not only is it a daily driver, but it's parked outside.  I don't want the frost damaging my hood over the winter.  Soon as one comes up in good nick at around £500, I'll have it.

I've just ordered some all season tyres from Camskill for use over winter, so I reckon I'll swap both the hardtop and the winter wheels on and off at roughly the same time.

Johnny - do you need the fitting kit too? I was desperate for a hardtop last winter as my hood needed replacing, so I bought a silver one (sable car): the inside is brilliant, but the exterior is badly painted and a bit scratched up, so it would need a decent respray.

The hood has been done now in a Robbins Mohair, so I don't need think I'll need the hardtop again as I love being able to pop the roof off on a clear winter's day, but not sure what to do regarding the fitting kit: I was planning on selling it at the next club meet, so there's people who know what they're doing.

I bought it for £400 through the club, so it would be sold for the same (incl fitting and plastics), which leaves you ~£100 for the respray (although most estimates I had to get it done professionally were around £200 and I was still researching for Sable colour codes / people who had painted MR2's in sable when summer started and I hadn't thought about it again).

We need to take this into the Private Sales section, if I'm going to bring the sale forward: I'll update a link here.

Hi BahnStormer,
Thanks for the offer.  Much appreciated.  However, I've bought a 20k near mint car, so I'm on the lookout for an at least good condition lid.  Good luck with the sale.

[wotugonado]

no comment

Someone doesn't skip leg day at the gym. Forget when hardtop goes on, how cold does it need to get before trousers are an option.

[Carolyn]

Those knees!!  Those knees.

[MisterK]

Like quite a few other people on here, my hardtop normally goes on when the clocks go back in the Autumn and comes off again when they go forward in the spring...I can always take it off if I'm desperate for top down motoring on a nice sunny dry winters day! 

However, this year is slightly different - the hardtop is not yet fitted as the car will be on the MR2DC stand at the NEC next weekend with the roof down  .  Mind you, a week tomorrow the hard top will be going on - sorry Jase but it's a must do!!!  If you've got a hard top then use it 

[Ardent]

Someone doesn't skip leg day at the gym. Forget when hardtop goes on, how cold does it need to get before trousers are an option.

Not at all sure, not even at the putting the heater on stage yet.
on the gym front, squating 140% body weight and 150% deadlift slowly working back towards target of double body weight.
Or  it could be there is 3foot of leg, compressed into the space of 2.  

[Ardent]

no comment

Glad to see Klopp gave you a run out today after you had a spin in the 2.

Thats what my legs used to look like before an insulating layer of fat blunted the definition.

[MR TWO]

Driving back from Liverpool today in the sleet & snow.  Nice and snugg in my car with the hardtop making winter seem further away than it actually is.

[MisterK]

Like Carolyn I love the car both with & without... As the car is permanently garaged and not driven in the wet, the soft top is always down - with the hardtop in place in winter & naked in summer