Is it just me or does the top seem to close really rough. Jerking hard and shaking the car. It seems really rough compared to some of the other convertibles I've been in. Is this normal? Is there a way to loosen it up a bit? Or is it just a "shut up, you have a hot car, deal with it" type of thing?

 

yeah, it closes like a plane getting ready to take off

 

I usually stop it in the as it comes down, open the latch, then continue to bring it down.

 

I usually wait till it latches the back before I close the front. Figure its more shock on the moving stuff in the back doing it the other way.

 

Sometimes I can't get mine to open or close without shutting off the car a couple of times. Does anyone else have that problem?

 

I definitely don't have THAT problem.

The reason I ask this is specifically because I was just in an Eclipse Spyder last week, and the top mechanism was SOOO smooth, it was like the car wasn't doing anything at all. It made me wonder...

 

I have no experience with other convertibles. That said, I think the operation of the top could be smoother. It is rougher than it ought to be, but not enough to be concerned about. As long as it doesn't get worse, I have no problem with it.

Ken

 

I'll play around with it a little this evening, and see if there's some fun little adjustment screw or something I can turn that'll make it silky.

 

Mine makes one noticeable jerk when it's opening. You can see one of the joints near the roof part of the top buckle as it goes from straight to angled (bad explanation I know).

Whenever I go to the dealer I"m going to show them.

 

The jerking is pretty normal.

 

Yes, mine makes that same "noticeable jerk" while opening, and it's very different from anything our Celica convertible did.

Let us know if the dealer has anything helpful to say about it.

 

come on guys, this isn't a luxury car ... just be glad that it gets tuck under the hard top tonneau ... There's no other vert out there that will do this automatically and still be under $37k.

well, none that I can think of, I know the new Solstice and Skys have their tops tucked under the tonnea but you have to get outside of you car and do it manually. And yes the pontiac G6 does it automatically but where talking about sports cars here.

 

Of course it's not a luxury car. But you'd think that such a prominently used mechanism, in a vehicle purchased explicitly for that mechanism, would function in a bit more appealing fashion.

That being said, the migraine I came up with last night went a long way for me not being able to poke at my top. This weekend, however...

 

Seems to jerk more if your on a incline when you close your top...

 

That's pretty much how I deal with it.
It is a little rough, but not bad enough to bother me.