Guys

I've just joined. I've had my Green Barchetta for about a yar. I love it and having had a Coupe before, love the quirkiness of the two cars. Anyway, I wonder if anyone can help. I need a new rear screen as the other cracked and just doesnt look the same with tape on it!!! Fiat quoted £300+ which I think is laughable for a sheet of plastic and a zip!!! Any ideas?

Grino

igrino said:

Guys

I've just joined. I've had my Green Barchetta for about a yar. I love it and having had a Coupe before, love the quirkiness of the two cars. Anyway, I wonder if anyone can help. I need a new rear screen as the other cracked and just doesnt look the same with tape on it!!! Fiat quoted £300+ which I think is laughable for a sheet of plastic and a zip!!! Any ideas?

Grino

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I cracked mine the year before last (my own fault etc as I wanted to play in the snow...)

Anyway, I couldnt find anyone who would repair it - Fiat wanted £800 for a new plastic hood!

So, I bought a new mohair hood from a company on ebay.de and fitted it myself. The whole job cost me about £290 if I remember and a couple of hours work in total, although it took about a week as I let the glue completely set in stages.

It has been on there for wel over a year, looks 100% better than the plastic on and only leaks if the Doris doesn't close the door properly!

I personally wouldnt do one for anyone else, but its worth having a go at yourself, its not difficult (i.e. mechanically difficult) just hard work and makes your fingers ache like mad!

UK Barchetta owners club have a 'how to' for the rear window replacement...

Alex said:

UK Barchetta owners club have a 'how to' for the rear window replacement...

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Yep, downloaded the vid, but it doesnt tell you who I can get the screen from. And I've seen the Ebay hoods too. Glad that someone else has tried to fit them.....Easy?

Grino

Sorry... I had my eyes on the wrong feet... I thought you'd already got a screen.

Dont bother trying to replace the rear window, very very hard job, sound easy but it is not. DTR sports will fit a Mohair hood for £499. Brand new and includes the window. PVC may be loads cheaper. DTR sports are based in London. Do a search on Google for them. This is your best bet.

Good luck.

thanks all. I thought the new hood route was going to be the best way forward. The PVC one on the car at the moment is pants. Very dirty looking anyway which is another reason I didnt want to give Fiat over 300 sobs for a piece of plastic.

The colour may be an issue though. As I say the car is green and at the mo, the hood is beige. Good combination, but I gues the new mohair ones dont come in that colour?

Grino

Hi ther, i had the smae problem, two solution.
Go directly to this german producer of a non-fiat rearscreen, which works wonders....see link below

http://www.bodi-windschotts.com/WB/englisch/details/S-Barchetta-EN.html

Or go searsh for the german words on www.mama.om or ???

heckscheibe barchetta

Mikkel Tauber, a lonely barchetta owner in denmark.

People always said it was hard to replace just the rear plastic window. This is not true. If your window is crap you can get one from eBay.de now and again.

You need a special zip as the window is zipped into the hood.



Doc Orange Peel

I bought my mohair hood from ebay for £300.00 and it was an english seller not a German one. He had different colours on offer, I bought a black one and fitted it myself. Took me the best part of a day and yes, it is fiddly!! With patience I got a perfect fit and it looks good Personally, with a dark green B I would prefer the black hood but each to their own

Nino_1975 said:

Dont bother trying to replace the rear window, very very hard job, sound easy but it is not. DTR sports will fit a Mohair hood for £499. Brand new and includes the window. PVC may be loads cheaper. DTR sports are based in London. Do a search on Google for them. This is your best bet.

Good luck.

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I have replaced my rear windows by myself long ago. I don't know why, it's very easy... just need to be carefully.

I ordered a second hand rear screen from DTR for £50. They gave me some zip as gift but I found they are slightly bigger. I sacrifice my laptop computer bag which has the right zip size.

Apart from getting the right zip. Tearing the old one also need be to careful. Be slow and gentle... specially the outer skin was glued to the old rear screen edge.

When fitting, I open the hood half way up so that the screen is bended into U shape to fit it. Probably this is the reason to be easy for my case as it won't stretch... This is different approach from the video demo.

Anyway, just want to share my easy job experience. I didn't even remove the hood.

Thanks for sharing that, very useful - did you take any photo's?

LRB got 3 strips of rear window material here for you to play with..... If you get it right first time you can pass the other 2 on to needy people.. if not maybe I need to send more

Have watched the upholstery shops here doing my other vehicles and they seem to just carefully cut the old stitches, use old screen as a patern, cut new screen, re stitch.... takes them less than 1 hour. can't comment on the B window though...

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LRB got 3 strips of rear window material here for you to play with..... If you get it right first time you can pass the other 2 on to needy people.. if not maybe I need to send more

Have watched the upholstery shops here doing my other vehicles and they seem to just carefully cut the old stitches, use old screen as a patern, cut new screen, re stitch.... takes them less than 1 hour. can't comment on the B window though...

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Excellent news - just got a text from Rosso Corsa - put his hood up on a cold morning in the week and split his rear screen - seems I have found my test subject!!!!

When are you coming over?

Well done Rosso

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Well done Rosso

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bang goes part of the alloy wheel budget!!! :doh:

Yep, you may have to sell the car too..... :slayer:

Ended up so cheap that i'd be embarrased to charge you for it...
works out to less than £1 / windscreen.

Was surprised at how heavy it is though...

They had 3 different thicknesses .5mm, .7mm and some stuff that looked to be about 2mm. So went with the .7mm

maybe rosso corsa could measure the thickness of his through the hole??

Looked at my window and it seemed to be either .5 or .7mm, but mine is not origional. whoever owned the car before had it changed and stitched into the hood. whenever I need it replacing I will either have a new one made with the zip (the guy didn't recomend it said it would leak and clog with sand and I would be unable to remove it. Or get a new mohair hood from germany or the Uk. anyone know do these have replacable screens?

LRB plans are I will be arriving in the Uk on 26th Feb (tues) and leaving on the 1st march. (sat). but may be trying to change flights due to my sisters current car problems. Any fantastic condition mx5's for sale in your area? 1999-2003 Can't convince her to have a B ... come to that i can't convince her to accept anything.. but I'll deal with that when I arrive!

Depends what you are looking to spend but this one looks ok.......

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-u...el=MX-5&min_pr=&max_pr=6000&max_mileage=60000

But not as good as this one.................

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-u...&model=BARCHETTA&min_pr=&max_pr=&max_mileage=

thanks for that LRB. If it was for me I would choose the second one by a long way......

but bloody stubborn sis would go for the first....

Had already called about it and it's sold ... people must wait for autotrader to come out at the first sparrows fart and get the best deals......

Let me know your budget and 'must have's' for the MX-5 and I will keep my eye open for you. There are loads around here, bit of a drive from your sis but as I am only working a couple of days a week I don't mind taking a look at the odd one for you.....