Well, I purchased the 7-year factory extended warranty when I bought the car, for the simple reason of a soft top. I was thinking about the mechanical parts, not the top itself. You may wanna check if you still can get the extended warranty. It cost me around $1500 at the time. The top itself is about that price.

The other thing you may wanna consider is to wait till March or April of 07 before ordering the top and hope they will use up the old ones and give you a new design by then.

 

Thanks for your reply. The new top cost is definitely over $4,000.00.
What's confusing to me now is that I thought the new tops were changed back in '04. The new tops are suppose to have double stitching running from the front to the back. I would want my top replaced now because in a month or so I'll be putting the Z in storage and then early next year I can test the new top & etc. for a few month's before my warranty runs out. Also some guys were having problems with the tonneau cover not being level.

Here's an old link....https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....e=20&highlight

 

Moderators can we merge these so we can let Nissan know how we really feel?

 

Anyone agree we have a problem and need a sticky?

https://my350z.com/forum/350z-roadster/214007-top-replacement-update-5.html

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....e=20&highlight

https://my350z.com/forum/350z-roadster/219586-new-top-for-my-roadster.html

https://my350z.com/forum/350z-roadster/215558-my-replaced-soft-top-sucks.html

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....ght=seperation

One more including my own...

https://my350z.com/forum/350z-roadster/152859-my-04-top-is-getting-replaced-under-warranty.html

 

charlie....Your absolutely right...should be a sticky. This is a very, very costly subject & needs more awareness in the Nissan community.

 

Mine's an early '04, and I documented the top problem in the dealership just under the three year wire - by one week. They're supposed to finish the job next week, but I'm wondering what kind of warranty will apply.

Even though it's being replaced with the same defective design, I'm thinking this will be the last top I'll get under warranty since the car will probably be 4+ years old when the replacement one fails for the same reason.

Depressing.

 

I think someone mentioned if you get the top replaced, the new top has it's own life duration of the warrranty. Search one of those 5 threads and you will find the answer.

 

You know I haven't been on this forum since May, just checked back and here it is at the top of the forum again; the tops. I am sorry to see you folks are still having these issues with the tops. The problem is, as I recall the Nissan extended warranty clearly states soft tops are NOT covered! (someone please check the fine print and correct me if I am wrong). This means when you have your replacement top for a year and a half and it starts coming apart YOU'RE SCREWED. Good luck with it, Nissan needs to get their act together on this and quick!!! NISSAN ARE YOU LISTENING???

 

I took my car to the dealer about 2 weeks ago because of the hose recall thing and I pointed out the top to them. It wasn't really seperating but you can tell that it was going to seperate. They changed the top for me without any question.

But, they also told me that the top would not be covered if I extended the warranty.

 

Fellows, I just read the Nissan 7 years extended warranty contract word for word. NO, the top is NOT covered.



I shall have a conversation with my dealer tomorrow about this. As much as I love this car, I may not keep it for long as I originally have planned. The dealer service is the weakest link for me. Will start shopping for a replacement soon.

 

I mentioned this. I was told from my dealer that all dealer replaced parts are covered either under your normal warranty, or up to a year if your warranty has expired. This includes the soft top.

 

Oh and +1 on the sticky.

 

Maybe we should all PM the moderators?

 

I assume there is some dealer leeway on replacement. I had mine replaced after 19 months and I had no extended warranty. The dealer did not question it at all, he looked at it and ordered the new top.

 

I started the thread at end August, and this chapter of it ended for me yesterday when the dealer finally finished the job by fixing the corner that the top shop (they contracted it out to) screwed up. So the convertible top adventure is over.

Well - not really.

The core issue remains that the replacement is the exact same bad design as the original. The warranty on the replacement is one year, but that's probably too soon for the seam to split open again. So I'll probably be holding the bag when it inevitably happens again down the road.

Interestingly enough, when I picked it up, the service manager and shop foreman both walked out with me to look at the new roadsters on the sales lot, and the ones with black tops have the exact same stitching/design. Confusingly, my buddy who had a blue top replaced by the dealer got a better constructed one (double stitched) when he had the pinhole problem. It appears even the newest black ones all seem to carry on with the same poor design. I'm pretty confused about this.

So I'm convinced the local dealer did everything within their power, but there is a problem here that Nissan needs to address on something more than a "keep replacing it until all the warantees run out" basis. These things are very expensive and owners will get pretty sick of this pretty quickly.

I've got a new top, but I'm upset that the problem hasn't been solved, only postponed.

 

Ill take some pictures of my brothers Roadster, but im positive his replacment top came doubled stiched and its black...

 

That would be great - I'm ready to declare war
on Nissan on behalf of all of us on this issue.

 

Someone cut my top and I'm going with an aftermarket top for $1,200.00. My new car arrives in November so not really worried about it. I tried using some superglue to glue the cut back together in the hope that I could make it not noticable and keep the insurance money. The cut is still noticable so probably best to go ahead and get the top replaced as the dealer will dock me bad for it on the trade-in. I'm still going to experiment some more with it to see what I can do. One thing I did learn is to not try to superglue all of the cut at once but get part of it glued then let dry then glue another section of the cut. I tried glueing the cut all at once. Gonna break it back apart and try that.

 

Related information on the new top:
1. Since I have my new top put in, had a problem with the latch being hard to lock when I close the top. I found out why. Seems the new top needs some stretching time. When the car is parked with the top opened over nite, the latch is harder to lock the next day. After a few days parked with the top closed and locked, the problem went away.
2. Somebody asked a while back if anybody's top closes hard with a bang. There must be an adjustment for it. Mine never closed with a bang, but dropped fairly hard. Now with the new top and new adjustments, it closes very smooth as the front edge drops down.

 

yeah this is my first time getting my top replaced. waiting to hear from the dealer.