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Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

Sin_Chase

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Yup.....had to happen sooner or later didn't it?

A lovely 2 x 6 inch blade precise cuts in the passenger side part of the soft top. Have had the roof replaced by Honda under warranty prior so know it's a 4 figure sum to go via them. Roof is less than 18 months old, less than 2,000 miles on it.

99% sure I know who did it also, cannot prove it though.

/rant over - Goodbye No Claims Bonus, cannot afford to pay the going rate outside of insurance now, and even when I can - cannot justify not claiming for what is 10% of the value of the car at least.
 
If you need a temporary solution, I'd very strongly reccomend getting someone who can sew to stitch it up, then coat the inside in stormsure. I had my '5 knifed (although only 2x3" gashes in an L shape) and have this at present and it actually looks half decent and is totally watersealed. Stormsure is an excellent product, I used it prior to sewing and even without it stitched up it was completely water tight (talking bucket of water poured over it water tight), and completely happy to be folded up and down.
 
Yeah I am looking at Stormsure at the moment. The cuts are clean and I might try a glue only repair for now. The youtube videos showing it's use are impressive (probably too impressive!) but if I can get a water tight seal that's not BLATENTLY obvious I can explore replacing the top for reasonable cost later down the line.

Reckon Stormsure will stick to vinyl? The interior of the roof is actually a fabric I think but the exterior layer is vinyl.
 
If you can get the material off the roof you'll be able to get an absolutely ace seal with the stuff; I didn't have the time nor resources to take the top off mine so did it in situe and as such it wasn't the neatest thing in the world, and you could see light through one of the slashes, but it was sealed by the glue. I whacked some duct tape over it on the inside and got on with life till I got it sewn. I will eventually replace it or reduce the cost of the car when selling it to compensate.

You won't want stormsure touching the outside of the roof, it looks messy as anything!

If you can get the material off the roof, take it off and get it on a flat surface not under tension, tape up from the top (the vinyl side) so it's perfectly aligned, then smear about 1cm of glue all over the slashes and wait for it to dry.

If you can't get it off the roof, tape it up as best you can and smear ****tonnes of glue over it. It'll look ugly as hell on the inside but it'll hold.
 
Not fussed about the inside appearance to be honest, it's dark up there even in good daylight!

Getting the material off will be a total pig of a job, I'll see what kind of tension/alignment I can get with tape/other in situe and see how it turns out. It's on the flat upper bit which is under very little tensions. It might even slack enough with the roof half open. If I can get good flat no tension access like that I'll chuck the car in the garage and do it there.
 
cokecan72 said:
out of curiousity, who do you think it was?
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I'll cliff notes as it's a bit of a round about thing.

Neighbours across road go on holiday with their car, I run into them on departure and have a little natter.

They tell me "Feel free to use the space while we are away", parking at our place is a musical chair affair, need to move mine to get others out of the garage so was nice of them to offer, they also said it would give the appearance someone was home.

Use space for 10 days, pop out to shops in car, come back 10 minutes later and someone has barricaded the space with a wheelie bin on it's side and some cones.

Neighbours are still away, nobody else has spoken to me or anyone else about the space so I remove barricade and continue to park.

4 or 5 days later I come back on motorbike and guy who lives around the corner comes storming up to me yelling "You cannot park there, they come back tomorrow"

I very calmly and casually inform him that I spoke to them, they gave me permission and they are in-fact still away for another 5 days. He says "Oh I did not realise" and left.

It's far too coincidental not to be him.

Car is still not visible to main road even in neighbours space. It's a private lane.

In the 10+ years I have lived here have never had ANY problems with any of our property.

Slashing is not an opportunity crime, you don't just carry a blade around and go knife 1 car parked on a secluded private lane.

It's possible it happened prior to him coming over and yelling but why do it THEN approach me? The only time the car has been parked away from home in the last 2-3 weeks was when I popped to town, parked up for 5 minutes, went into a shop and came back. In broad daylight with the slashed side facing/in the main road it's highly unlikely it occurred then.
 
That passes for a reason to slash your roof round your way? :p Still annoyed on your behalf though, car vandals are cowardly scum
 
Post up how the stormsure goes, wanna see what results other people get with the stuff :)
 
Bummer :( I was lucky when I had my S that the roof was left alone. Just the passenger side that got keyed!

been a while since I was on S2ki but I see you have posted there too? Might be worth checking out potential discounts available via club membership? I know there was one or two roof suppliers listed in there, sure one of them, if memory serves me right, would supply a roof with glass rear screen for £800 odd.

Would be best to try and pay for it outright, these cars are expensive to insure at the best of times. How would it affect next years premium if you were to claim? :(
 
Sorry to hear that, I hate stuff like this. :mad:

On another note, I need more coffee, I say here for about 20 seconds trying to work out what a sla-shed was. Wft? :confused:
 
:( gutted.

At least if mine does get done I've already got the manufacturer's deliberate defect in mine.

Hope you can get it sorted. I guess that's what insurance is for at the end of the day.
 
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