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Early Cars and Roof Striker Plates Is your roof noisy?

#1 User is offline   mikey k 

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 08:03 AM

Have only recently driven any distance with my roof up I found it was very noisy on the motorway. I also found I could get rid of the noise by pulling down on the front of the roof :confused: On inspection the two striker plates on the A pillars have grooves in them like this!





So off to the stealer with my extended warranty in hand. "sorry sir - fair wear and tear" :bs: on a 4 year old car with 18k miles "we can replace the strikers but we also need to do the catches and the seals- that will cost

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 08:23 AM

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Result!

Indeed! :thumbup:

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 08:46 AM

:)

Stick this in the FAQ.

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 08:55 AM

:iagree:
AND print if off and take it down your dealers. :D


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Posted 28 October 2004 - 09:28 AM

I have exactly the same problem and Slough Honda quoted me a similar amount.

Where did you order the JDM parts from?

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 09:30 AM

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:iagree:
AND print if off and take it down your dealers. :D

And put a sign outside offering to do the next customer's for

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 09:44 AM

The striker on the right hand side of the car physically came loose, cost me 34p to have Honda take all the seals etc off and replace the screws that hold it in place, that was the charge (17p each screw !)

Might think about replacing the strikers, in the (UK) Honda parts catalogue there are 2 options, 1 for the GT, these are also hardened probably as per the JDM spec.

Probably worth changing to them, as I have a 2000 car with hard top, don't think they would have given it the GT strikers as it didn't even exist then did it ??

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 10:24 AM

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Where did you order the JDM parts from?

From the same stealer that quoted over

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 10:48 AM

Good work!

Still begs the question though, is anything actually covered under the extended warranty??? :confused:

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 11:12 AM

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Good work!

Still begs the question though, is anything actually covered under the extended warranty??? :confused:

:rolleyes:

Not covered so far on a 4 year old 18k mile car!

Drivers seat side bolster collapsing
headlight with water in it due to failed seal on unit
Worn striker plates due to poor materials

All declined on the :bs: "fear wear and tear" clause

Still I am reassured if I have problems with the clutch, engine, gearbox etc it should go through on the warranty!

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 11:23 AM

Hmmm I have this problem too...................

I did read somewhere that a quick fix was to take the strikers off and place a piece of card behind each one to bring them forward a minute amount.

Not sure though...............

Edd

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 12:02 PM

Tried that and the tubing over the catch hook!
Neither worked! :rolleyes:
As you can see the wear was bad, almost slots worn in to the plates!

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 12:24 PM

Other option may have been to swap the sides over. They look from this pics (an I may well be wrong here!) to be symettrical, and in your case the grooves are worn on opposite sides. So switching them over may have worked for a while..

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 12:35 PM

Did think about that but I reasoned that they were already worn and simply swapping them would result in even worse noise sooner rather then later. Plus I was on a mission to prove the stealer wrong! :D

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 12:57 PM

Hrmmm, mines going in tomorrow for new strikers and HT adjustment, passenger window catches on the hardtop.

They didn't mention money to me so I guess mines free, well I hope it blinking is..

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Posted 28 October 2004 - 01:06 PM

Yours ought to be under the 3 year warranty :D

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 03:42 AM

is there any adjustment in the strikers themselves? if you loosen the screws that hold the strikers in place is there any adjustment or will the new ones go on in exactly the same place as the old ones?

secondly, what are the strikers made off? steel or some other alloy?

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 04:43 AM

No adjustment on the strikers, the screws are counter sunk and locate the plate once screwed down. Only possible adjustment at the strikers is packing them out from the window surround. Though I doubt that will do too much!

The strikers are cast and have not corroded where they have worn so I would guess an alloy.

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 05:12 AM

Hi All

Remembered this from the FAQ section: -

Rattling Roof Catches
My S HAD the most annoying little clicking/rattling sound coming from the strikers/roof latches. I understand that this is a common problem/fault with many s2k's out there.

Get yourselves down your local fish tank stockist and ask from some Fish tank tubing . . . .it is a clear flexible 6-8mm diameter plastic tubing. I had to buy a whole metre . . . . but who damn cares it only cost 49p. Basically you only need about 2cms of the stuff.

All you need to do is slip this over the small metal knobbly bit (technical jargon) that protrudes from the striker (the part that is fixed to the roof) quite difficult to explain really, but if you look at it, you will see where I mean. This simply prevents a metal to metal contact, the small about of plastic is just enough to tighten up the seal.



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Posted 29 October 2004 - 06:11 AM

Have fitted this tubing to the hard top, will put it on tonight, will let you know if it works, if so I will have, ooh, 96 cm left if anyone wants some !!

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 06:30 AM

wouldn't mind Simon!!

Edd

Can anyone post pics cause I am a ham fisted doofus!!??

(no comments anyone!)

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 06:41 AM

I'm going to give this tubing thing a go too. May just use whatever I find around the house first though. :D

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 07:54 AM

Tubing didn't work on mine as they were too badly worn!

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 10:56 AM

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Yours ought to be under the 3 year warranty :D

Yep, mine were done under warranty today, just new strikers no new rubbers or catches.

2 young grease monkeys even took it for a 10 mile test run to see if they had done it properly :thinker:

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Posted 29 October 2004 - 11:21 AM

:rolleyes:

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