2000 convertable tops (manual)?
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Instructor
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From: henderson nevada
2000 convertable tops (manual)?
Are all 200 verts manual fold back tops. thought there was a button to push and they went back auto. Anyone? Thanks. 1st time 2000 vette buyer, just sold my 85
Burning Brakes
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2000 should be like my 2002, manual only. You have to: unlatch 2 levers at the top of the windshield, raise the rear window, press the electric bonnet release and raise the 'door', collapse the entire roof into the storage and close the door. Sounds more complicated when reading - much easier in practice.
Racer
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Originally Posted by UncleFodder
2000 should be like my 2002, manual only. You have to: unlatch 2 levers at the top of the windshield, raise the rear window, press the electric bonnet release and raise the 'door', collapse the entire roof into the storage and close the door. Sounds more complicated when reading - much easier in practice.
All convertible C5 corvettes (1997-2004) have convertible tops that manually fold up and down. Chevy didn't start offering a power convertible top until the C6 model (2006 and on).
And don't let the C5's manually folding top scare you off. It actually folds down in about 10 seconds, much faster than the C6 power top folds down on its own.
Burning Brakes
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Automatic windows
Oh, and one other nice trick (again, not sure about which years this applies to) - if the windows are up when you hit the bonnet release button, the windows automatically lower.
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Originally Posted by UncleFodder
Oh, and one other nice trick (again, not sure about which years this applies to) - if the windows are up when you hit the bonnet release button, the windows automatically lower.
all '98 to '04 C5 convertibles do that.
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Originally Posted by ayeroff
All convertible C5 corvettes (1997-2004) have convertible tops that manually fold up and down.
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Originally Posted by UncleFodder
2000 should be like my 2002, manual only. You have to: unlatch 2 levers at the top of the windshield, raise the rear window, press the electric bonnet release and raise the 'door', collapse the entire roof into the storage and close the door. Sounds more complicated when reading - much easier in practice.
I have a 2000 and it's definitely do it yourself, which is fine with me, just one less mechanism to go wrong.There is one trick to storing the top and that is dropping the rear bow in the well before lowering in the rest of the top.
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Originally Posted by 2x88
do you have to get out of the car to lower the top, or can it all be completed from within the car?
I had my 98 from April 98 till June 05, and its real easy and fast.
I had a choice when I ordered my C6 and went with the manual top.
FWIW a manual can be raised or lowered much faster than the power top, once you have done it a few times.
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Originally Posted by ayeroff
All convertible C5 corvettes (1997-2004) have convertible tops that manually fold up and down. Chevy didn't start offering a power convertible top until the C6 model (2006 and on).
And don't let the C5's manually folding top scare you off. It actually folds down in about 10 seconds, much faster than the C6 power top folds down on its own.
My top folds down in 10 seconds too, but goes back up in 6.09 seconds if it starts raining.
The top goes up or down so quick and easy they are correct " don't let it scare you off." My wife can even do it.