All the hardware is available still
Did that. Parts are available but SnugTop shipped the dealer two lefts latches...booo. Both marked 1779528L. ...2500 miles...+ another eight weeks...
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They updated the strike loop design... seems like it'll fit. Less adjustable but fewer parts to wear out/rust. Originals had soft-plastic sleeves that deteriorated quickly. Perhaps they acted as a cushion of sorts...but I feel like they caused more trouble than they fixed. Closing the lid should normally be a 'set it down' then 'click it closed' like you'll see the prezident of Long Beach doing here at SEMA (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtOqurvjT9Y&t=90s) ... but in practice after a while it wouldn't latch and you'd have to sort of slam it closed or one side or both would pop up.
This
rivet ball-stud for the gas lift on the lower part of the stays
remains a mystery. Why a rivet? Where did they even get a rivet mounted ball-stud? Did they fab that themselves? Rivet diameter and height is 0.24" and it's hollow.... ~0.8" to the top of the 0.39" ball. The lifting part of the SlantBack is actually quite heavy with it's huge 36" x 42" sheet of automotive safety glass plus the roof-rails which are about as long as the ones on the roof. And they choose to hold that up with a 1/4" hollow rivet? I've been to half a dozen places looking for 'something' that'll go through the existing 0.24" hole and give me a ball-stud on the other side and even the truck-cap places are saying good luck with that. Even Spaenaur which happens to be around the corner from me...60k fasteners...nope. Asked the dealer to ask SnugTop for details.
What...?
