s1 elise hardtop
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Can someone guide me to a site where I can get instructions on fitting the hardtop and soft top correctly, I have only had the car a few days and was never really shown how to do it properly, I can do the soft top what I think is right but not sure about the hardtop, dont want to driv along and have it fly off at 70mph!!!
No idea on where to find inx for the hardtop, the softtop inx should come with the owners manual. Search the forums here and on SELOC as I'm sure I've seen it scanned in before.
To fit the hardtop you have to (if I remember correctly):
a) Remove soft top
b) Remove rollbar cover (unclips on both sides of B-pillar - take care rear window doesn't fall out!)
c) Get 2 people to hold either side of the hardtop and marry the front u-shape edge to the top of the windscreen,
d) Gently lower the rear of the hardtop into place at the rear to match up the lugs in both 'fins' with the soft-top holes on the back slope of the B-pillars
e) Take great care when you do this to ensure the rear window is properly mounted in the guides and that the retaining clips on the inside of the B-pillars engage correctly. Go slowly here and have one person controlling the process - you may need to give it a couple of goes to get everything to line up, patience is key!!
f) Engage the clips on either side of the car to hold the roof firm a the back.
g) Then get inside the car and do up the 3 allenkey bolts (using the allenkey for the softtop) until the roof is a snug fit along the front rail (don't overtighten though). Common sense says start from the middle one and do a turn each before moving to the next bolt - don't do one up really tight, then the next, then the next or you won't get a straight, clean fit.
Hope that helps... someone else correct me if I've gone wrong
>> Edited by S Works on Wednesday 1st June 12:17
To fit the hardtop you have to (if I remember correctly):
a) Remove soft top
b) Remove rollbar cover (unclips on both sides of B-pillar - take care rear window doesn't fall out!)
c) Get 2 people to hold either side of the hardtop and marry the front u-shape edge to the top of the windscreen,
d) Gently lower the rear of the hardtop into place at the rear to match up the lugs in both 'fins' with the soft-top holes on the back slope of the B-pillars
e) Take great care when you do this to ensure the rear window is properly mounted in the guides and that the retaining clips on the inside of the B-pillars engage correctly. Go slowly here and have one person controlling the process - you may need to give it a couple of goes to get everything to line up, patience is key!!
f) Engage the clips on either side of the car to hold the roof firm a the back.
g) Then get inside the car and do up the 3 allenkey bolts (using the allenkey for the softtop) until the roof is a snug fit along the front rail (don't overtighten though). Common sense says start from the middle one and do a turn each before moving to the next bolt - don't do one up really tight, then the next, then the next or you won't get a straight, clean fit.
Hope that helps... someone else correct me if I've gone wrong
>> Edited by S Works on Wednesday 1st June 12:17
Cheers for that mate ill give it a go, so does the front of the hardtop have to go right up to the windscreen as I had a quick go before I posted on here and the rubbers on the top of the pillars at the front where the cant rails push in, dont allow me to go any further forward and I found it quite hard to get the 2 pins on the fins in?? Me being stupid probably butit does'nt seem the easiest thing to fit, I just worry it will fly off at speed or let loads of water in!!
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