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Ideas for tonneau problem
bi22le - 14/3/10 at 05:43 PM

Hi all,
Hope your enjoying your sunday, great weather eh. Just wish I had my kit car already, bl**dy wedding saving rubbish!

Any way. I have a problem. Im getting my car soon and really really want a tonneau for it. Problem being is I cant see a way that it can be fitted due to the half doors, window height, rear view mirror combination.
I cant get it fixed to the inside of the window screen due to space, rear view mirror and I dont want it on the outside becasue I want to use the passeger side for when I do track days. I want it to be water and wind tight.
I have uploaded some pics for you to ponder and I have sent a message to Softbitsforsevens becasue they seem to know thier stuff!

Please feed back any thoughts and ideas.

Thanks

Bizzle

window tonneau problem 1
window tonneau problem 1


window tonneau problem 2
window tonneau problem 2

coozer - 14/3/10 at 08:29 PM

Take the half dorrs off and get one made that fits along the top of the scuttle inside the screen.

Then when you go out you have the passenger side covered and the half door on your side..

BTW, I really really want some half doors. Any glass experts up to making me a couple, or even just one, drivers side)????

bi22le - 14/3/10 at 10:05 PM

That wont work due to the rear view mirror and warning lights on the top. any other thoughts?

MikeLR - 16/3/10 at 01:49 PM

I have a full tonnaeu made by Milson on here.
I have one zip from my right shoulder that goes to the top corner of the scuttle and one from my left shoulder that goes slightly diagonal to the scuttle so I can see all the dials,it has a small semicircular cut out for the rear view mirror when zipped up.
Mike

[Edited on 16/3/10 by MikeLR]

Brommers - 16/3/10 at 02:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by bi22le
That wont work due to the rear view mirror and warning lights on the top. any other thoughts?


On my Striker I just cut a slot in the tonneau so it fitted round the rear view mirror. It's still as watertight as can be hoped for since the slot is (mostly) underneath the aeroscreen. It attaches to the car by way of pop-studs mounted on the top of the dashboard/scuttle and on the rear chassis rail behind the seats.

I don't have the complication you have with the half-doors - I can't use them since there's quite a lot of my right arm outside the car when I'me driving. I'd be tempted to just trim them down so they run straight from the top of the scuttle/dashboard to the top of the rear wing. A standard tonneau should then fit over them no problems. You could even put press-studs along the tops of the half doors (if they were cut down) and mount it that way.

bi22le - 23/3/10 at 08:26 PM

Thats a good shout Brommers. I dont think I would loose anything by trimming the front edge of the half doors down to the top of the dash. I suppose water tight is a bit adverturous so just to cover the cockpit would be fine.

Thanks,

Ill keep you posted with the results in about two months!