Mohair or Vinyl Roof?

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Mohair or Vinyl Roof?

Postby MX5CHIC » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:00 pm

These tops from Daveshouze are manufactured by KEE Auto Tops ( http://www.keeautotop.com/index.html ), prior to buying my top I got a price directly from KEE Auto Tops and the cost was almost $800 + Delivery + Rain Rail + Cables ....... Have no idea how they get the tops for resale on EBay for such a bargain price, and no; they are not factory seconds.
The other option is to pay top price for a two piece top from elsewhere and you will avoid the windblocker issue.

Daveshouze (ebay site) was offline for a while but is up and running again, they answered every question I had, very clearly and promptly.

As for fitting your new top ...... well thats another topic :shock: I did it myself, took around 8 hours.

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Postby wun911 » Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:14 pm

i have heard on the big form some of the davenshouze tops are no good....

I have a couple of small leaks in my roof now, Im probably going to go with mx5 parts uk for a top in moe hair...

where else are pplz getting the moe hair tops from???
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Postby meanmx » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:39 pm

wun911 wrote:i have heard on the big form some of the davenshouze tops are no good....

I have a couple of small leaks in my roof now, Im probably going to go with mx5 parts uk for a top in moe hair...

where else are pplz getting the moe hair tops from???


Mine was Prestige Autotrim but you should stop being lazy and try some research. You'll probably be paying plenty for mx5parts but then you do have a new job as a poo analyser so you can afford it :lol:

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Mohair or Vinyl Roof?

Postby Kain » Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:59 pm

Ben, how are you finding the Prestige Autotrim roof? I've been thinking of getting one of them from ebay because they seem a lot cheaper than anything local. Of course, being ebay I'm a bit wary of the quality.

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Postby wun911 » Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:01 pm

I've seen his roof the quality is good, looks nice but its heavy, its probably what im going to buy.

Now where did you buy the super lite strut brace with the break master cylinder stopper???
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Postby meanmx » Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:07 pm

Kain wrote:Ben, how are you finding the Prestige Autotrim roof? I've been thinking of getting one of them from ebay because they seem a lot cheaper than anything local. Of course, being ebay I'm a bit wary of the quality.


The quality was really good for both installation and wear over time. The only issue I had was that when the roof was down one of the support arms was rubbing the fabric due to the fabrics thickness. That was soon sorted by putting a bigger stopper in place of the factory one. Happy sailing after that

Wun, stop being a tight ass and buy one full price. Surely you make enough money analysing poo to be able to afford it

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Postby wun911 » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:45 am

I'm finding it difficult to decide between a CF roof and a moe hair...
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Postby wun911 » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:20 pm

The Prestige Autotrim dudes are going to send me some free samples I think I just have to pay the postage...
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Postby meanmx » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:59 pm

wun911 wrote:The Prestige Autotrim dudes are going to send me some free samples I think I just have to pay the postage...


Why do you need samples? You have seen my mohair roof, you have seen Ryans Stayfast? Sunfast? roof and vinyl is vinyl. Unless you want to get funky with the colour

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Postby green_comet » Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:48 pm

I think he just likes being as difficult as possible, any normal person would have a new roof on their car by now.

Stop thinking soo much Wun and just do it!!!

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Postby Old Dude » Thu Oct 29, 2009 8:10 pm

Its a bit of money and Wun just wants to make sure he buys the right one :D
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Postby TieNN89 » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:09 am

green_comet wrote:I think he just likes being as difficult as possible, any normal person would have a new roof on their car by now.

Stop thinking soo much Wun and just do it!!!


i guess im not normal then LOL!

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Postby green_comet » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:39 am

Obviously you two blokes have never met Wun... :lol:

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Postby bruce » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:52 am

Wun,

Ask em if the mohair comes from the male or female goat? It makes a difference...

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Postby meanmx » Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:24 am

bruce wrote:Wun,

Ask em if the mohair comes from the male or female goat? It makes a difference...


Is one lighter than the other??

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