Originally Posted By P Dron
Yes, but I would like answers to these questions:

1) With the 'Easy-Up' hood, how difficult is it to fit the tonneau cover?

2) How easy is it to remove and refit the 'Easy-Up' hood?


Answers:

1) With the easy-up hood down, the difficulty is lifting the frame and inserting it inside the tonneau cover envelope, and locating the two catches through the holes, then pulling it neat. This will probably leave you out of breath. Conversely if you have a tonneau cover, or hood cover fitted, and need to do an emergency hood lift due to heavy rain, it is fiddly and time consuming to pull the cover away from the rear catches.

2) Easy-up going down is simple enough. Important to unfasten the one clip each side just to the rear of the sidescreens first. Putting it up is more fiddle as it can be hard to locate the header rail over the windscreen frame. If you get the seal misaligned it will leak. To be honest I think the old fashioned hood is faster to put up.

As far as I know, the Simmonds easy up used the traditional frame, which is not the same as the easy up frame. In fact there is more than one version of the trad frame.

And the Simmonds easy up used a similar header to the factory easy up header, but with external catches on the A posts, and no side frames between the top of the A posts and the pram frame.

DaveW
'05 Red Roadster S1
'16 Yellow (Not the only) Narrow AR GDI Plus 4