I had a Plus six first edition with both soft top and hardtop. The car was a little quieter with the hardtop on but it was an absolute pain to put on and take off as the electrical connection you had to undo to remove the soft top prior to fitting the hardtop for the rear brake light was incredible poorly designed and very very difficult to do. To fit the hard top on a Morgan you have to completely remove the soft top and find somewhere to store it , fit new brackets and then install the hardtop, not a quick job todo and the brackets on my hardtop had to be repaired as the bonding to the hardtop cracked, this was after using the hardtop for one run. . My hardtop also leaked along the windscreen seal. Just bought a new model year 23 plus six and decided against a hardtop for the previous reasons as well as the eye watering price Morgan now charge for it
good grief - that's appalling - so sorry to hear it's that way
...not least since the Aero S5 hardtop is fairly easy for one person to fit in a few minutes. Open the boot, slide it into place, and lock off four catches. It is then quieter, and watertight. And there's storage for the soft top too.
[edit: don't forget to close the boot!]
That said, I saw the hardtop was manufactured and *then* there was a car at the factory 'testing' the hardtop. My hard top arrived some months after the car, which was well over a year after the first cars escaped to customers. And even then to get a good fit to my car it took the Dealer to fettle the positioning of all the fittings...
Sounds like the Plus cars' hardtop is a real step backwards :-(
Will
