Folding hood.

Hi, I fitted a glass screen panel to my hood yesterday and have just attempted to fold the roof.
It seems that it cannot be folded without unzipping the window.
I was under the impression that it could be done and the manufacturer say it can.
Am I missing a trick

Mine folds ok. where did you get yours from

Hi, It's a BAS bought from ebay. They say on their site that they provided hoods for Rover.
Just tried it with the glass unzipped and found that the glass rests on the Tbar and still won't allow the hood to fold properly as the frame rests on the glass.
I am awaiting a call from BAS which may or may not clarify things.

When i fitted an oem glass screen to my mk2 hood many moons ago (the first one done as people said i couldn't do it) i had to remove the fixing for the rear bar.. I think the how to is on here somewhere still. Newer screens allowed more material above the glass to let it bend i think. My original hood its now with Mgf Mania as a keepsake i believe.

Have you tried gently pushing the glass panel down then folding the hood down??

Andy the tyre man wrote: Have you tried gently pushing the glass panel down then folding the hood down??

Hi, tried pushing the glass but it is held securely with the zip. the top of the window litteraly digs into the hood stopping any further lowering.
The lad I bought it off has one fitted to his car and he say it has to be unzipped.
I have tried this and the glass now rests on the Tbar.
It can be forced backwards and down but that raises another problem. the hood folds down on top of the glass but not enough to fit a tonneau cover.
Looks like it is roof up motoring, less hassle.

Sounds like an OEM glass panel which does not just zip in to a Mk2 hood as said above.

HERE is my How-to

adamelphick wrote: Sounds like an OEM glass panel which does not just zip in to a Mk2 hood as said above.

HERE is my How-to

Hi, It is a BAS panel It fitted very well and zipped up to the hoods zip no problem.
The problem seems to be that the glass is bigger than other screens.
31cm tall . MGF mania screens are smaller than this judging from the pics.

Post a pic of it up.

Hi Pic on it's way, in the meantime here is a reply from BAS. If anyone knows what they are talking about would they please let me know.

Hello I have showed this to our fitter and it looks like you are going to have to pack out the T bar to angle the window forward slightly, This is a very old window, We have now changed our design to allow for the standard Rover 10 mil tolerances that they allowed when making the cars. we have changed the window design so customers don’t have this problem.

Sorry we can’t be of any more help

john and Jake the dog wrote:

adamelphick wrote: Sounds like an OEM glass panel which does not just zip in to a Mk2 hood as said above.

HERE is my How-to

Hi, It is a BAS panel It fitted very well and zipped up to the hoods zip no problem.
The problem seems to be that the glass is bigger than other screens.
31cm tall . MGF mania screens are smaller than this judging from the pics.

Yep - that's why! OEM glass was too big for the hood to fold if the rear hood rail wasn't able to move more. MGF Mania got round this by having more material and less glass. It made very little difference to visibility as the area you look through is lower down any way.

You certainly can fit the larger glass but you need to do a bit of trickery to do it.