New roof on my Boxster - whooohoooo!!!

[tac]

After almost sixteen years, the old soft-top let go in one corner - one of the two great shames of Porsche in their attempt to recover a failing market with a new 'cheap' roadster. At almost $60 here in UK, the fact that the early Boxsters had a plastic rear window, like a 1950s MG, but worse, was a big bone of contention. and a number of companies, Car Hood World among them, jumped on the bandwagon. They use premium US-made products only, and charge accordingly. Mind you, they fit it while you wait, if you have three hours to spare. So far they have done almost 700 Boxsters alone, but do everything from Audi to Volvo.

Here is the before - note almost invisible strip of aircraft-quality Duck Tape -



Here is what it looks like now -



The window is glass and heated, and is inseparably bonded into the premium quality mohair roof material and it's guaranteed for as long as you have the car, and then some.

More pics tomorrow, after it has stopped raining....

tac

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[RicInOR]

Like the red.

 

[Hop Sing]

Yup, the red really makes things snap!

 

[tac]

Red?

o.

tac

 

[tac]

Just kidding ya!

tac

 

[Kruel J]

Looks good tac!!

 

[SA Shooter]

I like it!

 

[308]

Yes, that red looks really nice!

 

[tac]

Thanks, Gentlemen, your approval is greatly appreciated.

tac, just a simple soul with an old Porsche

 

[308]

Thanks, Gentlemen, your approval is greatly appreciated.

tac, just a simple soul with an old Porsche

You have a nice handler for sure. We had a Cayman and that mid-ish engine was a pleasure to dive

 

[Provincial]

Nice!

I wonder if the old window was plastic because P felt that they had to have a very big window for safe vison. Or, more likely, their product liability lawyers decided that!

 

[Portaledgepete]

Sweet. Red looks good. Missing my Boxster S, it was t-boned by a large hippie woman in a Beetle totaling it.

 

[Mygrainman]

Sweet. Red looks good. Missing my Boxster S, it was t-boned by a large hippie woman in a Beetle totaling it.

Well thankfully the woman t boning the Carrera in your profile pic is neither large nor hippie

 

[Mygrainman]

More pics tomorrow, after it has stopped raining....

tac

Good luck! Ive watched a lot of Top Gear(and now Grand Tour) and from what I've seen...most of the UK is very much like my hood in that it rarely stops raining.

 

[partsed]

How is the visibility compared to the original window?? The color compliments the "silver" paint.

 

[tac]

How is the visibility compared to the original window?? The color compliments the "silver" paint.

What visibility?

tac

 

[tac]

Good luck! Ive watched a lot of Top Gear(and now Grand Tour) and from what I've seen...most of the UK is very much like my hood in that it rarely stops raining.

Simply untrue - you are mistaking the UK for Ireland, which DOES have a lot of rain. Hence the alleged 'forty shades of green'. Here and now the sun is shining on a nice Spring day at about 55F. The rain was overnight, and has now gone from THIS part of the UK, at any rate.

tac

 

[Portaledgepete]

What visibility?

tac

I always found the visibility to be outstandingly good, when the top was down that is.

 

[tac]

Unless the sky is actually emptying on my poor ol' head, I have the roof down most of the time, even when it's what they laffingly call 'cold' over here.

tac

 

[partsed]

What visibility?

tac

The size difference of window. That's what I meant