Ears

[SteveP]

I have had a sudden attack of ears.
It looks like the strap has come adrift, I have had a look but can not see how to reattach it to stop it happening

[Joesson]

I have had a sudden attack of ears.
It looks like the strap has come adrift, I have had a look but can not see how to reattach it to stop it happening

"A sudden attack" must mean that the strap is in place but not attached( Mine was in the glove box when I bought my 2, so very much unattached).
This means that the popper fastenings have unpopped or come adrift.
I have read of the strap being sewn in place when that has happened.
The strap,will,be hiding in a fabric tunnel in the roof lining, this needs finding and retrieving. A straightened out wire clothes hanger may assist this process.
Once found and if the poppers are just undone, the wire will help reinsert the strap, then pass the srap end over the nearby frame member and repop, repeating at the other end.
As mentioned, if the poppers don't pop sewing with a button or shoe thread ( ask the nice man in Timpsons for a metre of his stock).
If unrepairable, I doubt that new are available, but JSpec may be able to help.
PS
I seem to remember that this process needs doing with the hood somewhere away from closed to allow access and that the frame seems to want to close or open when your fingers are in the way. Be aware!

[fawtytoo]

Welcome to the "ears" club.

If you have a vinyl roof, the "ears" are better because of the inflexibility of the material. That is to say, the vinyl will be under more stress by pulling in those corners.

If you look at the way other soft-top convertibles have their hoods folded down, many of them have "ears" too.

I left my strap deliberately undone.

[cptspaulding]

A wise person on here once said these vinyl (plastic) roofs are now 20+ years old & not inclined to be bent in directions they don't care to go.

Leave the ears be.

[Joesson]

Maybe contentious in many ways but  my 2 has spent the past 14 of it's 22 years in a garage. The hood is up for 6 winter months at a time unexposed to UV.
For the remaining 6 months it is exposed only for the (too) few hours that I drive it. When parked in the sun the hood is up, so, my ears have been tucked in for a relatively brief period of time.
The hood is in pretty good condition and I like the tidiness of the ears being retracted as designed when down, unlike other (lesser) models.
Having read on here about Members "dropping" the hood while in the car at the traffic lights and raising it similarly, I suggest that treatment does little to ensure longevity of the fabric.
I shall be leaving my ears be!