latches for roof really hard to take off

[chicken8]

just test drove a car just now and the roof clips on either side was insanely hard to unclip

normal?

if its not normal what could it be?

[RedRover]

That's certainly NOT normal. Without having been there at the time I could only guess at many potential reasons. Is it possible that you tried to open the roof first, then realised it was still clipped, then tried to unclip without first pushing the button forwards to take off the tension?

Were there any rubber (or plastic) sleeves over the hooks?

[destrukshn]

they should very easy to un-latch the locks.

[chicken8]

i tried it 3 times

the roof was down all the time

when i take off both latches the i can see outside the car thru the gap between the roof and the windscreen top bit

the 1st 1 is not too hard to take off but the 2nd is near impossible. i need to use the roof handle to pull the roof down to release the latch

its the same story if i undo the passenger side 1st and the drivers side 2nd and vice versa

[chicken8]

btw RR is s2ki down?

i cant get on so i cant do a search or start a thread

[chicken8]

WHAT COULD IT BE???

new roof?

accident? and the chassis is bent? roof supports bent?

because the rest of the car is immaculate. and theres no sign of accident (im not a noob and can do your average repair spotting)

[ludecrs]

Ya, S2Ki is down.

[chicken8]

Ya, S2Ki is down.

cmon man. give me some info on the roof latches!!

[ludecrs]

hahah ok ok

Its most unusual. I lean into my car from outside and put the roof down sometimes, its that easy to unlatch.

Its such a unique situation, that without inspecting hte car, I can't give you an answer as to possibly why.

One thing though, you should do 1 test drive with the roof up and on the way back with the roof down.

This tests wind noise, clutch buzz sound, gearbox clunking sound, drive visability through possibly faded / horrible rear plastic window etc

[ludecrs]

Come to think of it, I think Vuey had this problem a while ago.

He switched the roof strikers over and never had another drama, iirc.

Was this the white one?

[chicken8]

yeah it might be the strikers. i guess i need to ask some1 who had their S since new to see if it was really hard to unlatch when new

it just seemed strange to me that the roof will pop up once unlatched. i dun remember seeing that ever on any of my previous test drives or the S2s at work

like it'll bob up just enough for u to see the light from outside coming in between the gap

the car is pretty immac so im just gunna write it off as one of those things. and see how things go

[euroasia]

does that mean your going to get it regardless?