Fitting Half Doors

[Powderpuff]

Do the poppers have to go through the metal bar inside the top of the half door or are they ok going through the vinyl?

 

Ta

 

 

 

The name's Puff, Powder Puff

N7XTC

 

[shn7]

Mine go through the metal bar. If they don't I think it will end up flopping about.

 

Steve.

Sussex (West) AO

Not forgetting Percy the Polar Bear

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Cheers Steve, I thought that, but the popper positions on my car that are already there are just further apart than the bar in long (I'm trying to avoid moving the poppers )

 

Any further experience anyone?

[Mark w]

Mine go through the bar as well.

 

Make sure that you use the " one way off " poppers on the top fixings or you will be walking back down the road periodically to pick them up.

 

 

[captain chaos]

I've dug this thread from the archive because....

I've tried to fit these CC half doors today..and no way are the DOT fasteners long enough to go thru the metal and allow the socket to be squeezed on....

Am i missing something or do i need poppers with longer ferrules?

 

Thanks

 

gary

[Petrolhead]

I am also digging this up as I have the same problem

 

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[DohNut]

 

And I am nearly in that position

I have replaced the popper base on the scuttle with one for a DOT base. I was then lining up the door to see what looks nice and it does fit quite well with the bar a little above the popper which would allow the popper to be fitted through fabric only. - which would solve the problem but I would only consider this if I also fitted a further, normal popper that went through the bar, which would likely have the same problem.

The only other thing I noticed was with the old poppers that I drilled off the tonneau. The popper female part has a flat top when unfitted but the fitting process makes it domed allowing more of the 'rivet' to poke through, If the hole in the bar was countersunk it may allow a mm or so more rivet to be used.

I think I am grasping at straws for that one.

 

[Dicky]

The poppers on my car were about an inch further apart from the half doors when I got mine. I ended up removing the bar, and putting a longer one in that stuck out the end, wrapped the exposed end in vinyl tape. Looks neat and removes the nees to put poppers all over the car.

 

Richard.

[Powderpuff]

Just noticed my thread is live again.

 

My final solution was to put 2 captive rivnuts in the car so that the screens can be screwed on, they're spaced so that the bolts go through the metal top bar at either end, works a treat.

 

The bottom of the half door is then simply held on with the poppers.

 

The name's Puff, Powder Puff

N7XTC

 

[DohNut]

 

A bit of progress and a bit of dissapointment last night.

 

First is the discovery comparing what is in the Caterham fitting pack to some extras that I got from Soft bits. The softbits popper for the lift the dot fastener has a longer stem which does allow it to be fitted through the metal bar. It did take a bit of faffing including drilling a small recess in the bar for the tab that sticks out behind the fitting to sit in.

 

But I am not happy 😔

The basic problem is that the poppers were placed in the scuttle and tonneau a decade before half doors were invented so the half door does not look right 🙆🏻 I think the front needs to be a little higher it is 16cm above the scuttle base but the door only looks level when the bar is a couple of centimetres higher than that.

 

So I marked out where the popper for the front lower tonneau needed to go - fine, but it clashes with the rigid part of the half door.

 

I am rapidly reaching a point where I am going to have two sets of poppers, one to fit the tonneau and and another set slightly offset for the half door, not exactly what I had planned