For those of you who have rubber cemented leather discs to the lift a DOT Fasteners on your tonneau cover. Did you put those suede side out, or smooth side out? Just wondering! It is probably a task I will look at on the next rainy day!
I stuck mine with suede side out. It will not stop marking of the paint completely but will help greatly. Having such changeable weather I run with passenger side on most of the time.
For those of you who have rubber cemented leather discs to the lift a DOT Fasteners on your tonneau cover. Did you put those suede side out, or smooth side out? Just wondering! It is probably a task I will look at on the next rainy day!
I stuck mine with suede side out. It will not stop marking of the paint completely but will help greatly. Having such changeable weather I run with passenger side on most of the time.
Tim
I rarely drive with any part of the tonneau on, and then only short distances. The only mod I've made is to glue some leather under end of zip at rear.
It occurs to me that adding anti-scuff material to the underside of the fasteners might actually increase the likelihood of paintwork damage though if dust and grit get underneath.
Richard
2018 Roadster 3.7 1966 Land Rover S2a 88 2024 Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450 1945 Guzzi Airone
Richard its got to be better than metal on paint from the fastener.
mine is actually metal on the thin "tape" that they use for the graphics. Already damaged from the one ride i took with the 1/2 tonneau! That darn zipper. or maybe from when they had it on during transit, hard to say.I have to do something to at least slow the damage down.
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Richard its got to be better than metal on paint from the fastener.
Point taken Tim. Answer seems to be not to drive with any part of tonneau attached. Although I nearly always use mine when stationary, the regular use has not damaged paintwork as fastener sits proud of paintwork.
Richard
2018 Roadster 3.7 1966 Land Rover S2a 88 2024 Royal Enfield Guerrilla 450 1945 Guzzi Airone
Morgan: Turns any man into a mechanic. Since new my car has only had one working highbeam lamp. Last night was cold and rainy, so I thought I would investigate. Pulled the headlight mesh and headlight, replaced the bulb with a known good spare, no change. Did find 2 loose grounding wires and fixed those. Got the multimeter out and found no power going to the high beam connector on the headlight plug. Traced the wiring back under the bonnet and foind that one of the pins in the connector had pushed back into the housing, was very obvious since the brown insulator was hanging out of the connector. So the car is officially mine, I worked on it.
Last edited by Draggin; 27/10/1602:09 PM.
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