Boxter Soft Top

[luggit]

A friend from work returned to his soft top yesterday lunchtime to find some nice person had sliced the rear perspex window. The rip is about 4" long. Does anyone know if this is repairable or will it need to be replaced.

[Rafferj]

Hopefully it won't need to be replaced !

I had a boxster last year that some jokey driver crash damaged and I noticed his insurer had to stump up £2700 for a new roof ( the window is part of it, and can't be fitted seperately :O )

Mine was the glass window on an 06 bosxter, your mate may be lucky if he has an older one, they may just be able to replace the perspex.....

All the best

[stu_the_flat]

Might I suggest you find a hard top. (put it on if you've got one.)

Because nothing will give the evil little turd more joy than to slash it a second time.

[Corpulent Tosser]

Err Lovat, it is spelt Boxster

I saw on the Porsche forum someone was getting twisted out of shape about people spelling it wrong

[VetteG]

Trust the Germans to spell it wrong eh!

G

[luggit]

Thanks Murray, but as I am unlikely to ever buy a Porker I don't worry too much about the spelling

[iain_cam]

luggit said:

A friend from work returned to his soft top yesterday lunchtime to find some nice person had sliced the rear perspex window. The rip is about 4" long. Does anyone know if this is repairable or will it need to be replaced.

The plastic hood panel section can be replaced by a specialist, which is good. However, what I'd really recommend is putting on a glass rear window, which would a) not be slashed, b) not go opaque like plastic and c) won't split in the cold. Although it's not a straight switch from the post-2002 model - which had the panel fitted as standard - and the pre-2002, which had the plastic window.

So as a compromise, Jasmine Porschalink (www.jasmine-motorsport.co.uk) sell whole hoods for around £900. As mentioned before, the colour-coded 25kg hardtop could also be recommended once it's fixed to keep the vandals away - they pop up on eBay every now and again, and IIRC Porsche OPCs still sell them for around £2300.