Electric power hood kit pt no: vub 105510
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200721It is said that these things are mind over matter & I don’t mind getting out of the car to lift the roof because it really doesn’t matter. M
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200727I dispute that. It is solely a matter of technique.
One takes the hood from behind the seat with the left hand and brace with the right hand on the left wrist.
It doesn't work with a windstop and a glass rear window.
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200740
I dispute that. It is solely a matter of technique.
One takes the hood from behind the seat with the left hand and brace with the right hand on the left wrist.
It doesn't work with a windstop and a glass rear window.
Seconded.....I have a perspex windstop and ankylosing spondylitis and at 5'7 I am not that tall - I can not do the hood up while sitting in the drivers seat!
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200742Ouch!…..whatever that condition is, it don’t sound like something comfy.Seconded.....I have a perspex windstop and ankylosing spondylitis and at 5'7 I am not that tall - I can not do the hood up while sitting in the drivers seat!
I’m a knarly old bastard, not exactly toweringly tall, but have done it…………could barely move afterwards, so I do understand that it’s possible……..but it’s not for this little black duck!
As these are what I call “a bum in a bucket car” I pretty well need to drop the roof to be able to get in and out of the little bastard!
My Triumph TR-7 coupe is worse….no dropping the lid first, there!
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200743Most of the current contributors, I would guess, will be of a certain age & have these cars as some form of tenuous connection to the now lost English sports car industry, I also guess that there are other sports cars we would rather have in our garage if our pockets were more capacious. With age comes experience (usually) & along with those advancing years come infirmities which allow some to perform tasks better than others & if you allow those difficulties to accumulate you’ll end up doing bugger all. Let’s all be grateful that we can still get our bums in the bucket, accept our failings & get on with the next topic. And poor old pgew question has all but been lost in the scrum.
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200746Oh, yes it does! That's what mine has.
OK. I've been out and tried it again. I already knew the method described above but could not remember why it didn't work for me. I knew it was to do with the glass screen and the windstop.
With about the same degree of difficulty as Jodie in the video, I can raise the hood and close it from the driver's seat. It hurts my left shoulder a lot (old AC injury) but it is possible. BUT...
Once the hood is up, I cannot lower the windstop from the driver's seat because it hits the glass screen. To prevent damage to the screen and the heating element, I have to push the glass away so that the windstop will lower. To do this, I have to get out of the car. I cannot do it otherwise.
Perhaps if I was 30 years younger and a bit more flexible...
As for the VUB 105510, they seem to be very rare. I'd be interested myself if one came my way. I can only suggest that the OP makes a 'saved search' on eBay.
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200756I'm going to give it a try when my car comes out of hibernation. I'm 6'1" but my car does have a windstop.
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Posted 1 year 11 months ago #200762Hey presto, roof easily pulled up.
Incidentally I have Mike Satur roll hoops and glass windstop and a glass rear screen, and I can simply fling the roof back without anything catching on anything else. :shrug:
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