Cutting the roof off!

[PhatVR6 0]

Has anyone one tackled a replacement roof skin?

 

I've got the genuine VW corrado bodywork repair manual but the drawings are pathetic, I want to see proper pics!

 

My car was a non-sunroof model, but some dick decided that before it was even registered he'd have the brand new corrado shipped off to some monkey in wales for an aftermarket glass electric sunroof. (why they didn't just fit a passat one I do not know...) Lord know what it must have cost, but whoever did it managed to slightly kink the roof panel.

 

Although I do quite like the big glass panel, the kinks have bugged me ever since my mate pointed it out.

 

Also, seeing as the roof panel is the only panel on the car yet to be resprayed(that and the tailgate) I'm thinking that now is the time to sort it.

 

Sure, I could have a bit of filler put in the ripples, but now I'm going for a track biased car I'd rather cut the thing off and replace it altogether.

 

a carbon roof would be nice, but horrendously expensive, and i'd still need another no-sunroof skin anyway to take a mould off! although I haven't ruled out this option totally.

 

so, basically, looking for any info at all, or tips, or even possible links to parts (either a new skin or a roof off a scrap car).

 

ta.

[funky 0]

one of the easiest panels to fit really much easier than quarters etc

god knows where you would get a new one and you dont really wanna be fitting a second hand roof

although i suppose if you could get a complete roof and drill the spot welds out from the underside very carefully it shouldnt be to bad

funk

[Chris VR6nos 0]

Stop being a mad fruit FFS and leave it alone will you, if it's a track car then F**k it, leave it unless you like sounding like Lee!

 

 

Chris

[Furkz 0]

i thought i was bad considering getting a whole door painted due to a stone chip!!!

[H8RRA 0]

which manual is it Paul - the blue one that covers passat and corrado?

 

Thars the one i have and the pictures and detail are good from memory - if this isn't the one you have, let me know and i'll photocopy some pages

[chrishill 0]

just lob the roof off all together, chop the windscreen to half height and have yourself some speedster fun! imagine the weight-saving!

[H8RRA 0]

just lob the roof off all together, chop the windscreen to half height and have yourself some speedster fun! imagine the weight-saving!

 

 

.....and buy yourself a decent brolley :)

 

Often comntemplated doing this to a mk2 escort when we ran those for years but cutting up a corrado!!!??? :shock:

[Walesy 0]

some dick decided that before it was even registered he'd have the brand new corrado shipped off to some monkey in wales for an aftermarket glass electric sunroof.

 

Before anyone says it....no ....it wasn't me.....

[chrishill 0]

.....and buy yourself a decent brolley

 

one of those brolly-hats would do the trick!

[H8RRA 0]

i always thought of you a a fashion guru chris. ;)

[dinkus 10]

A speedster Corrado would look ace - the convertible ones that both Karmann and whoever else it was that did the after-market ones looked cool. I've yet to see a picture of one with the roof up though, so I'd imagine it looks terrible.

 

If you go for the speedster option, then you can't put the roof up, so no worries about it looking crap! :lol:

 

However, if you lose the roof, you lose the rigidity, so you'd need to re-inforce the chassis elsewhere, which will actually end up making it weigh more than it did to start with and be a lot harder to do.

 

Oh and I love how that head umbrella has camo on it. Yup, not gonna spot you now... :roll: :lol:

[chrishill 0]

well, thinking practically, i had one of those press-studded-on rain cover thingys in mind, you know the ones they do for caterhams and old MG's where your head is the only thing that pokes out above a rubbery canopy? ideal.

 

IMO paul if you're going for a new roof, you might as well go carbon fibre and make it more than cosmetic.

[dinkus 10]

I think you might have issues making a CF roof - it would need extensive testing and design to make sure that the weave is set right so that it flexes in the right directions without cracking.

[was8v 0]

yep a functional CF roof would need load of development and FEA modelling, unless you over engineered it in all directions in which case it would probably end up being heavier than the original and hence an expensive cosmetic mod.

[chrishill 0]

meh... sounds good though :(