Twillfast Canvas is identical to Sonnenland Canvas - elegant and durable - only it's less expensive. This is a top-notch convertible top material, one we often recommend to savvy customers who like a good buy and a quality product.
Stayfast Canvas is an elegant, durable canvas original to cars like the Mazda Miata and the Nissan Z. Stayfast is commonly used in replacement convertible tops. Stayfast canvas has an acrylic square weave facing, a rubber inner-layer, and a cotton backing. As with other canvases, the rubber core gives the fabric long-lasting durability. Stayfast canvas is a sleek, beautiful canvas, usually less expensive than Twillfast, but it does not have the dobby backing offered in Sonnenland and Twillfast Sonnendeck.
Stayfast is a popular upgrade to vinyl convertible tops, and as with any canvas, is richer looking and has a higher wear rating than convertible tops made of vinyl. Haartz Pinpoint Vinyl is the most popular fabric.
This vinyl design is original to most American cars from the fifties to the nineties. Pinpoint refers to the little dots or pips that you see if you look closely at the vinyl surface.
European cars, such as the old Beetles and others also used pinpoint vinyl as the topping fabric. It is structurally wear quality equivalent to the Haartz Pinpoint but has a different surface grain.
The grain was designed to imitate the look of canvas. As you can see from the scan of this fabric, it is an exceptionally rich looking material. It is sometimes chosen for replacing convertible tops that originally featured pinpoint vinyl. Cabrio Grain is also structurally equivalent to the pinpoint. It has a pigskin outer grain vinyl as original to Volkswagen Cabriolets from onward and to Mazda Miatas and Mercury Capris.
This is the original topping for Porsche Boxster and Cabrio convertible tops. British Bison Vinyl is the most popular British roadster convertible top material. It is American made Haartz leather grain vinyl and is an imitation of the British Everflex vinyl top fabric.
The British Bison Vinyl convertible top fabric is often referred to as 'crush grain. This is the original material used on British convertibles including Jaguar, Rolls Royce and many others.
Imported from England, British Everflex vinyl is a supple vinyl with a rich appearance and is more durable than other vinyls. A good, less expensive alternative is Colonial grain vinyl. Colonial has the same texture but is less durable. Trilogy Acoustic Vinyl A heavyweight vinyl that is often used on SUVs like Jeep, because the two-ply composite has the capacity to reduce noise by about 20 percent compared to standard vinyls like Sailcloth.
The vinyl material is durable, promises long-lasting wear-and-tear, and resembles the sleek twill cloth commonly found on luxury convertible cars. It is a great all-purpose canvas and, according to Haartz, is used on 99 percent of convertibles. It is stronger and more durable than Stayfast Canvas and offers more sound protection.
Haartz rates Twillfast RPC as a mid-level acoustic product, compared to the low-level sound reduction offered on other top materials like Stayfast Parts in this category MGA Roadster fit cars for years: , , , and Convertible Top Guys We've been manufacturing convertible top specialty items for the industry since Install a new rubber seal into the channel rail, or reuse the old one if that seal is still good.
While these guidelines are for a B, other models will follow the same procedure, but may have other ancillary interior bow straps, etc.
Stand back and admire your work! Additional Soft Top Install Notes: Follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning and folding the top to avoid unnecessary damage. Remember that you get what you pay for in tops. The Robbins tops generally have extra material on the leading edge making it easier to attach to the header bar.
Robbins tops also generally ship with the window cut out included, which gives you enough material to recover your door caps. On insightful tip is to have the overlapping fabric section that are normally glued around the rear bar, is to either install snaps or Velcro strips.
Use 3M Super strength adhesive, part , over the General and Trim levels of adhesive. When you are installing a new top, remember to not stretch the top too tight as the top will shrink with time. Make sure that you use a Pozidriv screwdriver to avoid stripping the screw heads. Ever wonder why some of the attachment points on your top are easier to remove, there is a slight difference between the American and English Lift-a-Dot studs.
The English studs are slightly larger in diameter and the tops are made with American studs! Rate it or ask a question below! Do you have a question or comment about this article? Leave a rating or a comment below, and get instant reply notification via email If you have a long question, or a question not directly related to this article, please start a new topic in the Discussion Forums.
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Soft Top Installation Tips. Push legs of LTD fastener through fabric. Place metal plate on back and bend over the four legs to secure LTD fastener assembly. See pictures of both sides of installed Lift-The-Dot fastener. Optional snap can be installed at bottom corner of window frame fabric flap. Punch hole through fabric, insert snap head from front of fabric, assemble snap shell to back of fabric, and set in place with special punch. See installed snap and mating snap base on metal frame.
The turnbutton eyelet is installed similat to LTD fasteners. You may punch the slot in the fabric before installing the eyelet, or you can trim the fabric out from the inside of the eyelet after it is installed.
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