lost tamora roof at speed

[rottey]

Has any one lost their roof at high speed because the factory said im the first one

Cheers
Paul

[shnozz]

well as a non-tamora owner its not the first time I have read it...

[Plotloss]

Its definately not the first time its happened...

[craigw]

it happened at vmax V

[madbadger]

What happened?

Was it fixed correctly? Apparently the one at vmax wasn't on properly.

[Mr Freefall]

madbadger said:

What happened? Was it fixed correctly? Apparently the one at vmax wasn't on properly.

Madbadger, please make sure you have your facts right before you post incorrect information on PH. My roof was on correctly!

Paul, mail me offline if you like for info...

Mr F

[flasher]

Almost happened to me on the M45 a year or two back, i managed to swerve into the hard shoulder and save it coming off.

[dazren]

Nubbin has added some clips to get around the problem.

DAZ

[mallettp]

Recently posted this query myself. Got lots of DIY advice but the dealership put a couple of spacers at the base of the struts in and now it's fine up to 120.

[madbadger]

Mr Freefall said:

madbadger said: What happened? Was it fixed correctly? Apparently the one at vmax wasn't on properly. Madbadger, please make sure you have your facts right before you post incorrect information on PH. My roof was on correctly! Paul, mail me offline if you like for info... Mr F

Your right.

Should have checked first. You said it was another one you were told about that couldn't be sure it was on properly. (Not sure how to put a link in)

The detail wasn't really the point though.

[sammi]

my roof flew off my tuscan at 90mph, and went over the barrier into on coming traffic on the M40, luckily it didnt hit anyone, but a bloody big truck ran over the thing and destroyed it !
Only took 5 weeks to get another one painted and trimmed from the TVR factory.
( I don`t think I put the "safety catch" on ! whoops)

[dropacog]

Happened to me in my Chimaera a couple of years ago:
was on the M40 at *^$mph and the damn thing flew off. Gave me quite a fright. Couldn't find the bloody thing - only thankful it didn't hit anyone. Suspect it was causing a danger to air traffic at 30,000 feet for a while before landing and taking out a small village in Oxfordshire.
What was to blame? Not too sure - the back struts were in place...sure it was driver rather than mechanical error though...

[nubbin]

Pictures of my solution to a problem I nearly had a few years ago are here

[beano500]

dropacog said:

...*^$mph...

I did the obvious and looked down at my keyboard - that transalted to 864 mph - some feat!

[anonymous-user]

My roof came off at high speed lucky nobody was hurt really.
I never found it but TVR replaced it for free after suggesting it wasn't on properly.
I needed a new roof, windscreen and a new pair of trousers. . .

[sc077y]

Didn't lose the roof on the Tamora. But the window did 'get sucked out a good inch'(trying to word this tastefully) at considerably more than i should have been doing. I did however lose it on the Tuscan I had before, but that had a tree involved...and I was going backwards at the time. So it doesn't really count.

[bumcrack]

[quote=sc077y]Didn't lose the roof on the Tamora. But the window did 'get sucked out a good inch'(trying to word this tastefully) at considerably more than i should have been doing. quote]

Used to get this about 90, the windows did the same as yours. Tried to make window fixings stronger in the doors to stop the effect, but to no avail. I think a few of the earlier models didn't have very strong window frames in the doors or something.

I wasn't sure if it was the roof lifting off at speed and letting the windows 'splay' out or just the windows being sucked out due to weak frames in the doors.

>> Edited by bumcrack on Saturday 4th December 15:55