Hi Pat,
I wish that you had told me first about the seam problems. I do remember
you telling me about a few installation problems that you overcame.
The flaps for the side bars were standard and can be eliminated with a
request.
Please contact me so that we can work out a resolution.
Thanks,
Stan
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At 12:09 PM 8/2/00 -0500, Patrick J. Horne wrote:
>I bought one of the Stayfast tops from Stan with the zip out rear window.
I had it installed
>in California by a shop before I picked up the car. There are good and
bad points about this
>top.
>
>Good: Living in Texas we get a bit of heat that is really helped by being
able to open up the
>rear window and letting the wind blow through without sitting in the sun.
The top looks good
>too and after a year, the cloth looks new.
>
>Bad: The workmanship of the top left something to be desired. There were
a couple of seams
>where the stitching ran off the edge of the cloth, leaving gaps in the
stitching. Last month
>the stitching around the back of the top where the bar goes in to hold the
rear edge of the
>top started coming apart. About 3 weeks ago more stitching started coming
apart that used to
>hold the zipper to the fabric above the rear window. The top has always
leaked at the front
>corners. I took the car to a top shop here in Austin that looked at it
and said that for
>about $200 they could redo the part of the top that hangs over the windows
to keep the rain
>from coming in. Another thing that I didn't like about this top, but that
I understand is not
>a problem with this top only, but matches the factory top is that the cut
of the top at the
>rear of the side window overlaps the top by a good 2", causing a really
odd looking fit. The
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