Slashed.

Surely the best option here is to pay on a 0% purchases credit card and pay off the cost monthly? £600 quid is £50 quid a month over the usual 12 month 0% period, there might even be less if you can't afford £50 a month. S2000 insurance is mental as it is.

Do you really want a Honda warranted hood, isn't your car about 6 years old now so its pretty irrelevant? the Monsoon hoods all the S2Ki guys used seemed decent replacements, and mohair instead of the cracking (literally!) vinyl !
 
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Conanius said:
Surely the best option here is to pay on a 0% purchases credit card and pay off the cost monthly? £600 quid is £50 quid a month over the usual 12 month 0% period, there might even be less if you can't afford £50 a month. S2000 insurance is mental as it is.

Do you really want a Honda warranted hood, isn't your car about 6 years old now so its pretty irrelevant? the Monsoon hoods all the S2Ki guys used seemed decent replacements, and mohair instead of the cracking (literally!) vinyl !
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My vinyl one is literally dead now. Cracking and splitting all over. I don't get how £600 is a better option than the £200 Plus a few years of slightly higher insurance though.
 
Conanius said:
Surely the best option here is to pay on a 0% purchases credit card and pay off the cost monthly? £600 quid is £50 quid a month over the usual 12 month 0% period, there might even be less if you can't afford £50 a month. S2000 insurance is mental as it is.

Do you really want a Honda warranted hood, isn't your car about 6 years old now so its pretty irrelevant? the Monsoon hoods all the S2Ki guys used seemed decent replacements, and mohair instead of the cracking (literally!) vinyl !
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It's a numbers game £200/£X premium hike versus £600 (+travel expenses to UK on-top)

I insure my S for £420 so it's not going to be THAT bad claiming.
 
If the Swansea repairers you are talking about is Jack Smith I can vouch for how good their work is; my current hood is from Jack Smith and before the rip from a ****, it was brilliant. It still is, really. Much much better than vinyl crap.

It amazes me though, the business is not advertised anywhere, he has virtually zero web presence, seems to rely mainly on word of mouth, charges rock bottom prices yet his service is very high quality, and nobody has a bad word to say about him, not even 'it's a bit poor but it was cheap'.
 
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I thought you worked on the mainland now?

Just get some temporary repair tape, keep the hood up, and take it over next time you do the crossing.....
 
cut and paste from my s2k post, but a little insight into Jack's work and the s2k comments he made!

Sorry, I was going to comment as soon as I picked her up, but I was in Swansea for a wedding so time got the better of me.

The car was dropped off lunch time on the Thursday and I picked her back up 4pm the next day. They had three MX-5's being done when I dropped her off, all being done for the local Mazda dealership! I had a good hours chat with the lads about one thing and another and enjoyed watching them do there thing.

He said what a ball ache the S2000 are compared to the MX5, yet the Audi's and Minis he does are so complicated and time consuming there pretty much not worth doing, but people take them to him as dealer prices would mean a lot of the cars would be right offs.

Although he doesn't mind doing S2000's, he's not going to go out of his way to drum up any extra business for them due to the fiddlyness and time they take to fit, I told him he should up the price, but he refuses to do so as others will have had it for £260 it's not fair! The guys crazy!!

The roof quality and fit are superb, of course it's bespoke so it's not robot quality, but I prefer the fact he's made it fit to my personal roof, so any need to modify and it' been done to spec. I like the feel of the mohair over the vinyl, and I'd say I prefer the look as well.

They also managed to sort out a bloody big squeak I had, it turns out who ever last had the rear shelf out, had put it back missing most of the poppers and so it was barely being held in place, he only had a couple spare popppers and so it's only missing a couple in the least important places, so a big thumbs up there.

The roof is now a lot quieter as the fits a lot tighter, ait goes up and down smoothly and doesn't sit high like some roofs do after a few years.

So all in all 100% satisfied, and the price is just superb. The guys are worth meeting just for a laugh and a chat, and would come highly recommended.

Thanks to all who posted about his service I feel I've had the bargain of the year!
 
not sure how relevant it would be to you, but the wifes uncle had the roof on his 306 ragtop slashed in a similar fashion, local trimmer types done a glued repair that is nearly invisible from anything more than 2 feet away and its still going strong 2 years later IIRC he only paid 40/50 quid to have it repaired as well.

might be an option to consider?


never mind just seen you've posted as I wrote this :) kudos on a new roof for £260 sounds like a cracking bargain,,,, any pics?
 
There's hundreds of stories just like the above all over mx5 forums. I will be making the trip over before I sell my 5 unless I sell it to a friend who doesn't care so long as it's watertight.
 
Randell Floyd said:
cut and paste from my s2k post, but a little insight into Jack's work and the s2k comments he made!

Sorry, I was going to comment as soon as I picked her up, but I was in Swansea for a wedding so time got the better of me.

The car was dropped off lunch time on the Thursday and I picked her back up 4pm the next day. They had three MX-5's being done when I dropped her off, all being done for the local Mazda dealership! I had a good hours chat with the lads about one thing and another and enjoyed watching them do there thing.

He said what a ball ache the S2000 are compared to the MX5, yet the Audi's and Minis he does are so complicated and time consuming there pretty much not worth doing, but people take them to him as dealer prices would mean a lot of the cars would be right offs.

Although he doesn't mind doing S2000's, he's not going to go out of his way to drum up any extra business for them due to the fiddlyness and time they take to fit, I told him he should up the price, but he refuses to do so as others will have had it for £260 it's not fair! The guys crazy!!

The roof quality and fit are superb, of course it's bespoke so it's not robot quality, but I prefer the fact he's made it fit to my personal roof, so any need to modify and it' been done to spec. I like the feel of the mohair over the vinyl, and I'd say I prefer the look as well.

They also managed to sort out a bloody big squeak I had, it turns out who ever last had the rear shelf out, had put it back missing most of the poppers and so it was barely being held in place, he only had a couple spare popppers and so it's only missing a couple in the least important places, so a big thumbs up there.

The roof is now a lot quieter as the fits a lot tighter, ait goes up and down smoothly and doesn't sit high like some roofs do after a few years.

So all in all 100% satisfied, and the price is just superb. The guys are worth meeting just for a laugh and a chat, and would come highly recommended.

Thanks to all who posted about his service I feel I've had the bargain of the year!
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Sounds good but could be years before I next have any reason to go to the UK.
 
I thought you regularly had to go to wim due to pothole land being jerseys second name ?

That and.... What a waste of such a car if it truly is years... 30mph is barely vtec in 1st !
 
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I thought you regularly had to go to wim due to pothole land being jerseys second name ?

That and.... What a waste of such a car if it truly is years... 30mph is barely vtec in 1st !
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Could say the same of yours being a waste with that granny driving and stick on 'racing' tat.
 
Personally I wouldn't be in any rush to spend hundreds on a new roof straight away only for it to potentially get slashed again in the near future.
I would repair it and let the dust settle a bit, as having a second or third slash in an old roof would be a lot less painful.
Once you get some CCTV pointing at the car would be a wiser option.
Then at least you could have evidence of them doing it again.
 
Try and get some roof material from someone breaking theirs on the s2ki forums, my roof had a tear in in about 3 inches long and i fixed the material to the inside with the black outdoor silicone snd it never leaked or budged in the next year i used it. I knew what the thread would be about from the title sadly :(

Sorry about the tying. On my phone with little one in my other arm :D
 
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