Roof replacement
 

I had a minor accident while backing up into parking in pitch darkness. roof got "crushed" and scratched up. Already filed a claim and everything and am just curious.

anyone know if the roof is one piece with the frame? or is it just welded on?

http://imgur.com/a/AtV6Z

i just hope the support structure below is not damaged.

New Update: if you wanna see what beneath the roof looks like.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7N4J6FIDE"]Luna roofless - what lies beneath the roof in a BRZ. - YouTube[/ame]

The roof is just a skin tack welded to the supports. From the looks of things I would say that even if the supports are warped a bit they are totally repairable. Won't be cheap since a roof repair involves a shit load of labour.

yah i was quoted by a shop at minimum $1700. insurance is gonna take care of it, but i gotta pay $500 deductible. shit happens i suppose... i just hope its going to as good as new once they get the new roof fitted. :/

If the shop is even remotely good then you will never know it happened. The actual repair is easy. The bigger issue may be the paint colour match but at least you don't have white.

And personally I think the story is hilarious (no offence) since this is the sort of thing that only sports cars drivers can do. Like really, how many "I backed under a trailer" stories have you ever heard?

Sorry man, totaled. Parting out?

;)

You pull off the rubber drip rail moldings and you will see/feel small round circles. These are where the roof is spot welded to the frame. The welds need to be drilled/ground down to remove the roof. You will also have welds on the flange the front/rear glass sits on, so they will need removed to gain access.

Cut away stock roof, replace with carbon fibre roof :)

I was just about to say the same thing.

Silver linings man, silver linings.

If you get a CF hood just don't, for the love of god, back under a trailer again.... :D

Unfortunately insurance will not give me a CF roof :/ i'll definitely be more careful from now on though. funny thing is, our car is so low, the bottom of the trailer is right at my roof line. and in pitch black, it was nearly impossible to see. Lesson learned i suppose.

The shop the insurance company set me up for has a pretty good rating and great reviews, i saw some pictures of their shop on their website and it look very professional. so i hope it'll go smoothly.

new updates.

http://imgur.com/a/oVlXw
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7N4J6FIDE"]Luna roofless - what lies beneath the roof in a BRZ. - YouTube[/ame]

I almost wish something would happen to my roof so insurance can cover most of the cost to swap in a carbon fiber roof :-)

yah people were telling me about replacing it with CF roof. but OEM is $350 while CF roof is $1700... provided they don't break your windshield, the entire job was $3800 with OEM roof.

are you on reddit too? I think I saw this on r/ft86

yep. thats me.

how would they even install the CF roof securely? don't they have to spot weld the roof on? I don't think you can do that with CF lol

Body shop uses special glue to glue the roof and chassis together. Same concept as BMW M series & other sports cars with cf roof ;)

So the roof in our cars isn't actually a stressed member of the chassis like other sports cars? It's that metal part that runs down the center in between the two humps?

It help a bit, but roof isn't doing anything other than covering you (& airflow). Major sports car nowdays worry bout bottom chassis stiffness than the roof... but that doesn't mean it's okay to cut the roof to make a vert. lol

Think of it this way.

Going from just purely on the price of the part, it's a 385% price increase, but with the cost of the job factored in, you can get a sick ass CF roof for a small increase of only 35%!

But yeah, that really sucks that it ends up costing so much just due to the nature of the repair.

Ever change a roof skin? There are really valid reasons why they cost so much in labour.

the major stress bearing structure is the 3 horizontal and 1 vertical brace you see in the video/pic. The roof panel itself is responsible to protect you from the elements and aerodynamics, albeit a tiny bit of rigidity support.

I got rattles exactly in this part, the white horizontal frame,
The dealer pinpoint it and tried fix it by loosing something, the noise changed from low frequency, high volume -------->to high frequency low volume.

How shall I repair it ?

Some workers have the ability to "suck" the dent up, and make it likes nothing happens, without handling the paint.
Not perfect but very cheap.

You could of been the first to have a convertible. God gave you a sign and you threw that away. smh lol jk good luck with the repairs, i know mines after the insurance wasn't the best and im still finding imperfections that the shop skimped around with.