2002_TAWS6

Like what the subject says, I was on the freeway the other day and I forgot to lock the t-tops and suddenly I heard a lot of wind sound so I looked up and my passenger side t-top flew up up and away! <img border="0" alt="[kaboom]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_bomb.gif" />

Now Im shopping for a 2000-2002 passenger T-top for my car. Anyone have one for sale?

For those of you who have t-tops make sure you have em locked before you get a sucka$$ story on ls1tech like me.

Oh yeah one more thing.. I looked around to find where it flew off to and 5 minutes later I see an ambulance coming because of 2 car wrecks. I dont honeslty know if it was my entire fault. But I never found the t-top.

Someone help please.

JLMoses

iTrader: (3)

Bro that Blows a big one. The only thing I can tell ya is shop around the local Salvage yards. Good luck buddy

badbird88

been there done that...my 83' Camaro had t-tops and I did the same thing years ago. heard wind noise looked up and....SEE YA! Went into a couple thousand pieces. Found one at the junk yard for $150.

You can find our cars wrecked in almost any junk yard so finding one shouldn't be a problem. Good luck!

BS

I DID THE SAME 2 MONTHS AGO. MINE WAS THE DRIVERS SIDE THOUGH. THE SUN SHADE JUST ABOUT KILLED ME AS IT CAME DOWN THEN OUT THE WINDOW (I WAS DOING 85-90 MPH). IF YOU BUY A NEW ONE FROM GM YOU'LL NEED YOUR HANDLE, LOCK AND PLASTIC COVER + ABOUT $370

<small>[ October 16, 2002, 06:56 PM: Message edited by: BS ]</small>

Zshark

happened to me last spring, never did find the damn thing (flew off at 90 mph on 8 lane highway). Found one in a salvage for $200 off a 96 camaro.

StalkerLS1

Don't feel bad.. Same thing happened to me about the first 2 weeks I had the car. Hit a 2 lane Highway and just like you described.. One brief sound of Wind and FWOOP!!! GONE!. I looked up into the rear view and side mirror and saw it shatter into a billion pieces on the road behind me.

I went to every Salvage yard in town and got one for about $200.00 DOn't worry though.. After you run all over town for one you'll see ad's pop up all over the classifieds of people selling the one you need for $50 bucks. (Never fails)

BTW, There are 2 different T-TOps just so you know.. 93-95 had the painted little Matrix Dots to block out the sun. 96 and up went to a very Dark Privacy Tint. (What you most likely have now).. That's about the only hassle you'll have to put up with unless you specifically tell the salvage yard you want a 96 up Fbody T-Top..

GL!

14u2nv

I have read many posts about this happening and I have personally heard about a few cars that have had this occur. I have had f-bodies for the past 10 years. I'm 25(26 on 10-28-02)and my first car was a 1984 Camaro with no t-tops, but I had them installed! I have had my LT1s and LS1s all up to and over 150mph without the t-tops locked. Never did I have one come off. Are you guys making sure the bars are latched properly?

WEASEL

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by 14u2nv:
<strong>I have read many posts about this happening and I have personally heard about a few cars that have had this occur. I have had f-bodies for the past 10 years. I'm 25(26 on 10-28-02)and my first car was a 1984 Camaro with no t-tops, but I had them installed! I have had my LT1s and LS1s all up to and over 150mph without the t-tops locked. Never did I have one come off. Are you guys making sure the bars are latched properly?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's probably not the latching properly thing but more than likely the latches being set too loosely from the factory.

On top of that if you are going 80+ mph and have one or both windows open, the increased air pressure might cause the tops to bow enough to pop out of their latches.

The latches ARE adjustable. You remove the one or two screws on the car trim where the ttop rods go in to the holes. There is a metal adjustable sliding bracket behind the trim. I think it's just one bolt that tightens it down.

I haven't tried but you can probably take the trim piece off and put your ttop back in to see how much of the rod it's actually holding on to.

<img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

2002_TAWS6

well I drove over 3 times without latching the t-tops correctly and nothing happened.

Unfortunately the 4th time I did so I was accelerating quick (doing about 75-85mph) on the freeway and it was kind of bumpy so the t-top could of easily bounced and flew off because of the air. And BTW my passenger window was down as well.

Yeah I wasnt smart at all this time. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />

1BadAzzHawk

Same Thing happen to me about a month ago. Ended up getting one at a not so local junk yard. Paid like 220 for it. You can check here though, they have great prices.

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