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got my hardtop today so soon the 5 will be my daily driver

but it it right up against my BD bar, some people say there is a paper thin gap but it's less than that, I put a piece of paper inbetween and they wore a hole in it in less than 1km of driving

basically the vibration from the car just idling makes a high pitched squeak come from the 2 top edges of the BD driving me crazy

so is there any way to make the hardtop a fraction higher ???

also having issues with the hardtop not clearing the softtop latches when they are in the closed position, should they be in the closed position with the hardtop on???

Maybe place a soft material, such as thin piece of rummber between the hard top and the rool bar?

I don't think it matters if the soft top latches are closed or not. The hard top has two small protrusions that sit above the soft top latches and I suspect they are there to stop the soft top from bouncing around

J

Did you remove or cut away the plastic seatbelt tower trims under the bd? This may drop it about 3-5mm?

zoomzoom wrote:Did you remove or cut away the plastic seatbelt tower trims under the bd? This may drop it about 3-5mm?

I got about 5mm on mine

what zoom zoom said is worth considering too

what have you done with the carpet on the rear shelf as that will gain 5mm too

try installing it without any of the trim work and carpet and see how it goes

Ryan.

thanks for the idea's might try to make the BD lower over the weekend, until now I have some speaker carpet wedged into the sections where it touches

Yep, soft top latches closed on mine..... No clearance issues, but it is close.