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kenmud:
thanks for all your help  nice one all of you

Grinch:
Sorry to bump and old thread ut my good lady and i jhave jsut bought 2 soft top jimny's.  Well i bought mine, she fell in love and found another one for her :D

Apart from the scary stickers about the rood not holding passengers inside the vehicle in the event of an accident  :shock:   the books do say the soft top should not be folded or opened in temperatures lower than 5' C  im assuming this is due to the PVC becomming brittle and cracking.

the roof is made of a canvas backed vinyl by the looks of things, and whilst the mark1 versins are messy with theu removable side windows theu do appear to be quite tough.  Im looking at a monsoon roof (www.monsoon.co.uk) as the replacement when mine needs doing as it converts the clip and bar system over to press fasteners which is a more secure fitting (not in terms of anti theft tho)

Both our Jimnys are second hand and around 5 years old, and the roofs  are in excellent condition on both.

Matt

kenmud:
Hiya,

Thanks for getting back to me it was in the handbook about the plastic being brittle and also on other websites, I was advised by my local suzuki dealer to put a cover over it in the frost, I just had visions of my 2 kids poking out the plastic windows if there was frost on them.

What I am going to do is buy a soft top convertible model and my local dealer says as part of the deal he will do me a geniune suzuki hard top for £500 which I dont think is too bad, cause once I dont have the soft top anymore, I can sell the hard top separtely.

As for your soft top if its the 4 part soft top with the big side windows you can pick them up from breakers yards, and monsoon do a good replacement top and if your local you can go to the factory and see them being made.  I think this is my best top to get a hard top and put it on in the cold that way it will save me looking out the window wondering what the weather is going to be like, wasnt really bothered about the soft top just bothered about the glass cracking, in the past couple of months have got to become quite an expert on soft tops (blow my own trumpet) by asking questions on websites which is great fun as well.

Thanks for all your advice merry xmas enjoy your jimnys.

ken doncaster

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