Originally Posted by
Pilgrim
Hi, I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed to this forum.
I just bought a Crossfire and this forum has been a great help.
Today I took my car to get petrol and realised due to the fact I disconnected the vacuum pump due to it being damaged and quite expensive to replace, I realised I couldn't get the petrol cap open....rookie error😐
So I tried to clean the soft top and restore the headlights...first attempt so please don't be too harsh.
Thanks again
Wow truly impressed how clean that top came out. What products did you use?
In the first picture the top looks like it's separating from the fabric or at the very least has been glued back in. Had I only seen the first picture of the top, I would have said it's overtime to get a new top put on but if the window is still holding up you might get a little bit more lifetime out of it. If in fact the top was glued, I'd still consider saving up for a new top ($800 shipped from England) as I have yet to find one, who successfully glued in a window in a roadster and didn't come back weeks, months later to say it is coming apart again and opted for a new top.
My concern when I hear vacuum pump is that water got into your trunk, hence my questions whether the window is leaking and therefore has been glued in. That's usually how the damage happens, people wait too long, window starts slowly separating and water gets into the trunk, under the carpet and floods the compartment where the vacuum pump is located leading to all kinds of funky problems from keys not working to other problems.