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Voxination said:
If I could insure an E39 M5 I'd be buying one to replace my E46 tomorrow :p (aged 19)
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Wow if insurance is the only thing you care about I'd love to see the shock when you add up what you've spent on it over 12 months. Insurance is utterly irrelevent on cars like that, its a trivial expense not worthy of consideration.

Always amusing to see 'I would buy nutter-ballastic-lol-cost car but the insurance is too much' :D
 
[TW]Fox;25684828 said:
Two things:

a) Colour. Yea, so what? I would understand holding out for the best S2000 colour. But I do not understand buying a completely different car in a different colour entirely to the one you really want because you can't find an orange one or something. It's not as if your £8k Evo or whatever will be Orange, is it?

b) Hardtops. Hardtops are rubbish. They should only be used if you want to keep your convertible on the road in an area where you feel its a bit risky. Otherwise, no hardtops.

The roof on a convertible should be used like an umbrella. If its raining, put it up. At all other times, roof down. Even if its 2c outside on a crisp morning, get that roof down. Thats the great thing about a convertible, you don't need to be sitting in blazing sunshine to enjoy it. There are hundreds of opportunities every year for top down fun almost whatever the weather. As soon as you introduce a stupid hardtop into equation you lose the ability to quickly drop the hood.
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The S2000 is a sports car that has a ragtop. Some people by it because it's a sports car and don't care for the roof. It's not like its a BMW M3 convertible which is just for posers ;)

The fact there is no S2000 coupe means some people are happy to have a hardtop as it turns it into a coupe, much better for the winters really and gives the car a completely different feel. My mates has a hardtop and it's much never inside compared to having the roof up.

However be aware the hardtop is a two person job to fit /remove and a pain in the arse to store, they also have a habit of rattling at the back

My soft top has been fine in just ownership until this winter and the storms, it's leaked a lot, drains have become overloaded so the boot fill with 3 inches of water and the door seals regularly poor water over my legs. This is a 14 yr old roof though that need some TLC ( greasing rubbers and treating roof helps)
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2006+ are softer! have higher seats, are heavier and DBW throttle can be a bit crappy. Also post 2004 have the clutch delay valves which are gay
 
dessimpson said:
New roofs aren't that expensive.
I think mine was about £500 and a day off work. They did an awesome job of it and it looked superb.
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OEM roofs are £butthurt

Monsoon Mohair's are much cheaper and just as good quality. I recall looking into a chap in South Wales that did the full job for VERY reasonable money.

I ended up claiming on insurance for a new roof though, £4 figures.
 
Sin_Chase said:
I recall looking into a chap in South Wales that did the full job for VERY reasonable money.
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Yup a friend of mine went and had one done with that chap (forget the name now, something Jones?), £250 and was a very good job indeed.

Had to leave the car with them overnight and they removed your rear screen and re-used it on the new one, but it was a good job.
 
Ev0 said:
Yup a friend of mine went and had one done with that chap (forget the name now, something Jones?), £250 and was a very good job indeed.

Had to leave the car with them overnight and they removed your rear screen and re-used it on the new one, but it was a good job.
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I think it's Jack Smith's. I've seen one up close, and for the money you can't really fault it. They will put a glass rear screen on a pre-02 car but only if you supply the glass IIRC.
 
Will Gill said:
Porche needed some turf after some rabbits dug up my lawn, jacked up the zed grabbed a few handfuls and the ultimate driving experience spilled over onto my lawn!

Oddly I drove Past the spot of crashed and was heartened to see a brand spanking new gt3 Porsche half way up the bank with a tree added to the bonnet, goes to show ;-)
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What colour was it?
 
Voxination said:
True, cheapest quote on Confused is coming back as £7,328, definitely wouldn't be happy paying that :p
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Oh dear!
I get quotes around £550f/c which isn't very much more than I pay for my 325i (with a different insurer) although as Fox says, insurance cost isn't the thing to worry about with such a car...
 
[TW]Fox;25684828 said:
The roof on a convertible should be used like an umbrella. If its raining, put it up. At all other times, roof down. Even if its 2c outside on a crisp morning, get that roof down. Thats the great thing about a convertible, you don't need to be sitting in blazing sunshine to enjoy it. There are hundreds of opportunities every year for top down fun almost whatever the weather. As soon as you introduce a stupid hardtop into equation you lose the ability to quickly drop the hood.
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This is really dumb. I'm a soft top owner however but it's been until recently my only car, I do some really mundane trips in it, putting the top down for every trip soon loses its appeal. If you have access to a second car then I can see why you would think that way, but it's not reality. I've just become a 2 car house hold and doing mundane trips in a big comfy cruiser without any thought is a really nice option to have, but when it isn't an option the top being down all the time swiftly becomes tedious. Maybe I'm getting old, but I'm not so certain my next cars going to be a soft top now!
 
Totally agreed with hurfdurf on this, a convertible is great fun when the mood takes you but when you're just nipping to the shops, driving back from work, or are going to be stuck in ring road traffic it seems a bit pointless in January. Most of the pleasures of open top motoring are lost when you are stuck in traffic on the Birmingham New Road near Tipton, inhaling diesel fumes whilst surrounded by lorries heading for M5 J2....

You can dress a bit warmer than you normally might, take gloves everywhere in January, maybe wear a scarf, and have the roof down and heater on all the time unless it rains...but sometimes its just not worth the effort, and you just want to jump in and drive it like any other car. For times of the year when that feeling is prevalent, a hard top to fit a convertible makes perfect sense.
 
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