Miata Mailing List: April 1993, Message #144
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Subject: Re: Oops I folded the top without unzipping...
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Joe Murphy epistolates:
> 
> Anyway, there is a small kink in the window about the size of a quarter,
> right in the center. The plastic is not "white" or badly crimnped, but it
> is enough to annoy me. Anyway to soften up the plastic the fix it? Will the
> sun do this over time?

Maybe careful warming with a hairdryer.  It may straighten out on a good
hot sunny day, particularly if you gently stretch the whole window at
the corners somehow.  I'd be cautious about heating just that one spot
because it might just make matters worse by stretching or making a
"bubble."  My old Fiat 124 didn't have a zipper.  Trouble was that the
rear window would eventually harden and crack after a couple years of
sun exposure since it flexed right in the middle when you lowered the
top.

> So far I have done the minor dent in the rear trunk thing and now fold the 
> window down without unzipping in cold weather thing. Whats next? 

Well, I almost did the minor dent in the trunk thing Sunday afternoon,
but recognized its approach from past experience just in time to avoid
it.  You evidently have yet to do the scrape the bottom front piece on
the concrete crosstie/curb in the parking lot thing.

  Jim Adams

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