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Re: Convertible Top Hydraulic Piston Question Posted by Paul [Email] (#792) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Paul) on Thu, 6 May 2004 15:29:19 In Reply to: Re: Convertible Top Hydraulic Piston Question, patprice, Thu, 6 May 2004 02:57:29 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
thanks patprice. This isn't the first time I had the top looked at. I bought my ‘99 9-3 convertible in April '03 with 60k miles on it from Hyannis Saab on Cape Cod. By the end of last summer, I was getting a soft top failure alarm so I brought it back to the dealership. They found that the fluid was low and they traced the leak back to the right and left 5th bow pistons. Need less to say, the extended warranty that I bought on car, which was sold to me as a bummer-to-bummer extended warranty, did not cover the pistons nor would the dealership do anything to help me out. So I wasn’t exactly the happiest person with Hyannis Saab and I didn’t want to give them anymore of money (they quoted me $1700 to install two new pistons), so I had them just refill the fluid to see how long it would it would last and it lasted the rest of the summer.
At the end of December, someone broke into my car by cutting the top. When I took it the auto upholsterer to put a new top on, he told me that the top moved pretty freely and that there was no hydraulic fluid in the reservoir. At the end, he refilled the reservoir and the top worked fine
The last soft top failure happened when I went to take the top off in April. So I brought to a different non-dealership garage and they said the same thing, the two outside pistons (which I believe move the 5th bow) were leaking. They also said the mirco switches and replies on them are bad and need to be placed. The total cost about $1,500 to repair.
Overall, by biggest concern is why did these pistons fail. At $1,500 a pop, I don’t want to be replacing them every couple of years.
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