Gen6GT

Good link... I've ordered some, since it will be good for mky leather upholstery too, every time I leave the car with the hood down it seems to attract birdcrap! What a useful source of info you are, young lady, it was your link which led me to the tonneau on Ebay for just £75... thanks once again:)

I think I'm going to order some of that Gorilla stuff and give it a go. Kate, the lady I bought the tonneau from, has a black gen 6 vert, UK model, which has exactly the same problem as mine. She's taped it all up with duct tape, which holds it in place and stops the water getting in, but looks awful and is rerally only a stopgap. Also she has the same problem as I do, which is browny-yellow spots of what looks like mould on a half a dozen places on the hood fabric. I'm going to have to find something which will kill them off... I've bought an Auto Glym fabric hood-cleaning kit, see if that will do the trick.

Hey, Arizona, have you done the repair yet? I'd be really interested to know how it went, especially as my vert is now sporting its lovely newly-acquired tonneau!

Gorilla glue? Unfortunately I don't have a gorilla which needs gluing!!! Seriously, the problem with mine is that with the hood up the top of the window is below the area it should be glued to. Maybe it might be do-able with the hood half down? I'm not sure how I could clamp the glass to the hood for the 30 minutes or so it takes to cure. I found this on the Saab owners group: 1. Open up the hood 2" or so to release the tension on the rear panel. 2. Cleaned off as much old mastic from edge of fabric and glass as possible. 3. Wiped down fabric and glass with water to remove dust/ dirt and make as clean as possible. 4. Wiped over glass and fabric areas to be bonded with metolated spirit and allow to dry. 5. Masked off window on line of where fabric hood will bond to prevent mastic overspill onto glass. 6. Applied about a 6mm dia bead of mastic adhesive, i used SIKAFLEX 221 BLACK POLYURETHANE SEALANT, got it on ebay. 7. Starting from the middle working out to both sides, cafefully and firmly pressed the hood fabric down onto the glass. I held it in place with duck tape every 6" or so. dont worry about mastic oozing out of the joint onto the masking tape. Found that this could easily be carefully removed with a sharpe stanley knife once it had cured. The only difficult bit to bond it the 1 1/2" of fabric that overlaps each end of the window. As its under the fabric, i just gunned in a blob of mastic, pressed the fabric down and put a heavy weight ontop to hold it down. seems to have done the trick if not the most elegant solution. 8. Some suggest holding the fabric down with weights. Thought this may be diffucult as it would press on the excess mastic. Took someones elses suggestion to prop the rear window outwards with wooden battens between the rear or the rear seat and base of the window. did this at both ends and it helped keep the fabric flat on the window. 9. Once done leave for at least 16hours (left mine 24hrs). Dont be tempted to fiddle with the mastic as this may kill the bond. 10. Once fully cured, i took off all duck tape and cut off excess mastic. Seal is now holding well and very neat. Let me know how you get on, Arizona

My Gen 6 vert has a problem with the rear window. Basically the top of the window has become detached from the hood and needs rewelding or gluing in. I'm looking for a recommendation for some trimming company who might be able to do this, any companies within, say, 100 miles radius of Oxford would be appreciated. Cheers, folks.