soft top

craigs135s · Post by **craigs135s** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:34 pm

Whats everyone use to clean there soft top first then seel it so it wont leak. Its not been out the bag for a while so though i would give it a clean.

Cheers
Craig

Scottd · Post by **Scottd** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:27 pm

Fabsil is the stuff Lotus recommend, and I've used if for the last two summers but wouldn't recommend it (I was just too tight to go out an buy summin else). It brings the colour back a little, but not as much as you'd expect. It waterproofs well for about two down pours but then the roof just starts soaking in the water like always. Plus every time it rains you get dark streaks down the car where the Fabsil is just washing off down the car. It looks awful.

I'm going to try Renovo next. Seems to be the choice of the car enthusiast and if you have any colour of roof but green (like me

) then they even do a colour restorer.

http://www.pistonheads.com/reviews/revi ... =73&id=189

scott

craigs135s · Post by **craigs135s** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:03 pm

Cheers Scott. do you no if it cleans the roof or if it just waterproofs it. my roof is blue so should be fine. i will let you no the outcome when i get round to it

Cheers
Craig

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon May 01, 2006 8:53 am

BTW if you are interested £40 inc P&P gets full refurb of the roof from Lotus via MMC.

Scottd · Post by **Scottd** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:29 pm

craigs135s wrote:Cheers Scott. do you no if it cleans the roof or if it just waterproofs it. my roof is blue so should be fine. i will let you no the outcome when i get round to it

Cheers
Craig

I think they gererally just make it 'look' cleaner. Renevo make quite a few products for the roof tho so one is probably a cleaner. They have a web site somewhere, can't find it just now tho

Sanjoy wrote:BTW if you are interested £40 inc P&P gets full refurb of the roof from Lotus via MMC.

Do they clean the cloth? I thought that was just for if you'd snapped the bar at the front of the roof? Hmmm now I think about it, I might of read on Seloc about someone getting a whole new roof back, it must of been in pretty bad nick if he did?!

scott

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:44 pm

hmm aftersorting out bodywork with clay and wax, is there a similar "beading" product for the roof ?

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:45 pm

I have the Autoglym stuff, cleans and then waterproofs IIRC. I used it once on the Elise and it was pretty good.

I obviously have no need for it now so free to a good home...

Cheers,
Ali

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:48 pm

*cough*

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:52 pm

OK, sold to the man with the nasty cough!

I'll look it out for next time I'm passing Edinburgh.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:54 pm

craigs135s · Post by **craigs135s** » Mon May 01, 2006 7:09 pm

Cough cough

. lol well done sanjoy you got there first

Let me no if it works well mate.

Cheers
Craig

slg · Post by **slg** » Mon May 01, 2006 9:36 pm

Here's a quote from the TT forum where the roadster owners talk about hood cleaners / protectors.

"Really wouldn't bother with the Autoglym kit @ £20 it's too expensive and not that good.

Cleaning: mild shampoo mix and soft handbrush, gently scrub from to rear and rinse with a free flow of water.

Allow to dry. Mask off windows and body with old sheet and use either Fabsil (from camping shops) or Heavy Duty Scotchguard - both aerosols and both very effective.

Or, try "Renovo" purpose made for soft tops and very good. Easy to apply with brush and hood looks great after.

Bird droppings - remove bulk with kitchen towel or similar then pour carbonated (fizzy) water over affected area, bubbles lift cr*p out the fabric."

HTH

woody · Post by **woody** » Thu May 04, 2006 5:09 pm

My canvas dosen't leak, even in the worst of down pours

It's even stopped leaking where the rails join the screen - now that i've stuffed the gaps with bluetack

Scottd · Post by **Scottd** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:44 pm

Forgot I'd bought the AutoGlym two bottle + rough sponge pack at the end of last summer :doh: so have applied that. Roof looks much better than it did after Fabsil so even if that gives me black run marks too

it's already better.

scott

craigs135s · Post by **craigs135s** » Thu May 04, 2006 11:39 pm

my roof dosent leak its just at the joins at the window. Where did you put the blue tac in mate to stop it leaking.

Scott am off tomorrow (friday) so i will try the autoglym and see how that gos

Cheers
Craig