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Originally Posted by indianamoon
3. Everybody thinks you have a bottomless wallet when you have one of these. One quote to fill in and spot paint to remove roll bar holes was $2600 and the quote to fit the factory B&B top and B&B tonneau on my B&B cobra was in excess of $1500. Not to make new ones, just to fit them, not including putting in the studs, which the guy said I had to do. Front of the top is completely done, have new bows, needs only studs for the back. Tonneau just needs studs. And if I gotta put in the studs, what did he think I was getting for my $1500+? Guess I will do all of this myself.
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That doesn't sound real high to me since you are talking about both a top and a tonneau. One thing he may have been thinking about is that you said the front of the top is fitted to the windshield bows. At least in comparison to fitting an ERA top, that is backwards. On my top I installed the lift-a-dots in the rear of the top to match the body. This is kind of a nerve-wracking task as each one has to be installed in the top to perfectly match the studs on the body. He can't screw one of them up and have a do-over. Then the rear bows must be tweaked to fit the profile of the top and if you have side curtains, to fit the rear of the side curtains frame. If you have side curtains he will have some tweaking to get them to fit the body and the windshield will have to be adjusted to match their front. Only when all of this was done did I pull the top to the front, marked it and glued it to the front bows. If when he gets to that point and the front of the top doesn't reach the windshield or is too loose at the windshield, he has a lot of additional work to do. Also, I think you said you had adjusted the windshield back some - no telling how that is going to all go together at this point.
And then after that he has to go through the nerve wracking job of installing each lift-a-dot on the tonneau to individually fit each stud on the body. It's quite a project, even for someone who does upholstery work for a living.