Convertable top question
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Convertable top question
OK how many of you Vert owners reset the release handle when you lower the top?
I was watching the top go down and then the cover starts lowering and contacts the top handle showing a bulge in the cover as it pushes the top down. If I unlock the top and then raise it a small amount and then relock the handle into the top the bulge goes away.
I was watching the top go down and then the cover starts lowering and contacts the top handle showing a bulge in the cover as it pushes the top down. If I unlock the top and then raise it a small amount and then relock the handle into the top the bulge goes away.
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I always reset the handle (to the locked position) before lowering the top. When I raise the top, I reset it to unlocked after raising the top, from inside the car, so it's one motion again: turn it to unlocked, pull it onto the windshield header, turn it to locked.
Le Mans Master
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From: Stoneham MA
St. Jude Donor '07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15
Originally Posted by richhoff
Yep--I always reset the handle to the locked position. No particular reason, it just seemed like the right thing to do.
I do the same.
Melting Slicks
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if you are talking about the manual top you have to reset it or it will bang on the tonnoue cover when you try to close it. There is a foam piece there but it will close a lot better with the handle reset.
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From: Denton TX
Originally Posted by blittle
At NCM delivery they advised me to ALWAYS reposition the handle to the locked postion when you lower the top ( power ) 
When I took delivery the dealer stated that this is the way it needs to be done. Doing it since day 1.
