Hood Folding

[malg]

As a beginner TR owner I'm struggling to find the best way of folding down the hood for open-top driving.

Is there a way of doing so without either:-

 

a) having the rear window (mine isn't removable) & quarter-lights under the collapsed struts, with the risks of bending/distorting/damaging them

or

folding the hood forward over the collapsed struts, in which case the "wings" seem liable to flap (and there still seems to be a risk of bending the quarter-lights).

 

I've tried to follow the basic (and supplemetary) diagrams in the Handbook, but without marked success.

(I don't have a hood cover, by the way, and I'd like a quick, simple stow - if there is such a thing - without using the tonneau.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

MALG

[Tom Fremont]

Hi Malg,

 

a) is the wrong method; the factory's is best. You can use the tonneau cover as a boot cover, as most who have these do when the seats are occupied.

 

Many hoods ( most? ) have suffered damage from incorrect folding. The method in the manual avoids this, but then you do have the flaps to contend with.

 

If memory serves ( been Surrey for 12+ years now ) I used a bungee cord across the folded top to keep it all from flapping, in my impecunious youth...

[badshead]

Malg

 

Try this link to a previous thread on this topic Folding Hood

 

I'd certainly recommend buying a hood cover - the only sure way to stop it flapping about when folded down.

Edited November 21, 2006 by badshead

[wheeler]

Malg

 

This may help as well http://www.vtr.org/maintain/tr6-top-folding.shtml

 

Best regards

 

Bill

[malg]

Tom, Badshead, Wheeler,

Many thanks for the advice - much appreciated by this novice!

Best regards,

malg