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Mazda Miata: Loose fitting top

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    Taco
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    Loose fitting top

    I just installed a Robbins Glass zipper Sunfast top. It was a lot of work
    to install. It looks great except for wrinkles over each door. They are not
    too bad. I know this is a fairly common problem. Questions: Will the top
    shrink to fit? If there is an adjustment to be made and how is it done?

    Thanks in advance
    John



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    KWS
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    Can't see your wrinkles from here, John, but I suggest that you wait a day
    or two (or three) before doing anything about them. This, I believe, is what
    Robbins calls "conditioning". Let the sun do it's magic on the wrinkles.
    That's what I did and it resolved itself in about a day.

    Best,

    Ken

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    Taco
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    All this talk about sun. I live in Seattle. When the sun is out, the top
    is down.

    Thanks
    John

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    Ken
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    "Taco" <com> wrote 

    I was concerned about a few wrinkles on the Robbins no-zip glass window top
    I installed on the '90. Then I notice the same wrinkles on my '97's OEM top.
    Even the originals ain't perfect.
    --
    Ken Lyons '97 Brilliant Black/'90 Classic Red
    Inside the Beltway
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    KWS
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    So a little time has passed. How does it look?

    Ken

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  6. #6
    Taco
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    Its still a little loose above the door. I live in Seattle. Its only sat
    in the sun (~80F) for one day. That helped a little. I will let it cook
    for a couple of 90 deg days before I lose hope. Its ok the way it is, just
    not perfect. The sunfast material looks great. Not being shiny like vinyl
    it kind of hides it.


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    BRUCE
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    Hay Taco,

    You are going to let it "cook" in 90 Deg's. ?????
    You live in "Seattle Washington" ?????????
    You must have a very large oven at your house!
    I live in Seattle and it might get to 90 sometime this summer, but to
    let it "cook" ? Wow ! Be sure to let me know when that is going to
    happen so I can water my grass the night before. :-) We have some
    warm days up here, but "days" at 90? ( You might want to try a heat gun
    while you are waiting.

    Bruce RED '91 (It's summer in Seattle. 68 deg's to day)
    :-)


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    John
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    Come on you know better than that. There will be 3 maybe even 4, 90 deg
    days this summer. I remember one time when I was a kid it hit a hundred!
    Outside!

    Water your grass?? Futile. Waste of water. Grass dies in Seattle when it
    hits 80. Brown is beautiful.

    T.

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    pws
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    John Matava wrote: 

    This is our second mild summer (so far)in a row in central Texas, but 90
    is what I am considering as mild. We had a summer a few years back that
    had 100+ degree days for over 30 days in a row. The lowest it would get
    at night during this time was 85 degrees.

    I need to visit the Seattle area sometime, I have never been there but I
    have considered it as a place to live based on what I have heard about
    it. Right now, though, I am considering a job possibility in Knoxville,
    TN. From what I have heard, there are some decent roads to drive just
    south of Knoxville along the TN/NC border, "Trail of the Wagon" or
    "Neals Lap" or something like that. :-)

    Pat
    '96M

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    BRUCE
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    Re: Loose fitting top

    Hee, hee, hee. Pat,
    This is :-) not a good place to live :-) ! It rains ALL of the time,
    the clouds are low and gray 300 days a year, we grow moss on our feet
    and webs between our toes because it is so wet all of the time!!!!!!
    The grass never turns brown and we need to put moss killer on it so that
    the slugs will not live in it. It only gets to about 45 to 50 deg's all
    year long and we never have nice summers !

    Today the news said it got to 83 deg's but they just say that so we will
    feel better.

    There are no jobs and the housing is just very poor.
    You can pay $750,000 to $3,000,000 for just a shack.
    --------------------------
    THIS is what we tell all of the Calif. people that want to move up here.
    :-) :-) :-) !!!

    But, The other 65 days of the year are just out of this world. (come
    visit us. If it's a nice day, you will not want to leave. We have some
    super Miata roads and the views are fantastic !!!!)

    Yes, it was over 80 today. The top was down and the air was fresh. Being
    retired, I get to enjoy all of it.

    Bruce RED '91



 

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