The carbon slicktop thread

[old///MFanatic]

Picked up the CSL specific headliner this morning. Pulling up in the X3M...
I just slid the headliner into the trunk, closed the trunk and pulled away. Good stuff!

Just a heads up, in the box it prevents it from bending. Having just had my slicktop headliner wrapped in Alcantara (and having removed a few headliners)it is cumbersome. But when you flex the headliner it pulls the glue and foam backed stock material and can/could start premature headliner sag.

[ra2fanatic]

Picked up the CSL specific headliner this morning. Pulling up in the X3M and the parts guys skepticism that the headliner would fit in the trunk made me laugh. It comes in this massive box, so I just asked them if I could just take the headliner out and they can toss the box and the way they were like "you should have brought a truck" was funny as I just slid the headliner into the trunk, closed the trunk and pulled away. Good stuff!

[BMWahba]

Welp, I'm chasing down a leak on my roof. I have some dampness occurring when it rains very heavily near the A pillar and right above the driver and passenger door entry way. Pretty bummed about this. I didn't remove the soft drains when I did the install. I am hoping that is the cause. Going to pull the headliner and inspect to see if I can trace where the moisture could be coming in.

[Onefastsicilian]

I'm interested on the labor cost as well.

I paid $1200 by a very well known shop in my area.. They specialize in hail damage repair vehicles so they were very familiar with replace roof skins. That price also included pulling glass and thankfully, they didnt break or crack them.

[Feffman]

If you are considering doing a carbon fiber roof yourself, here's a tool from 3M a friend mentioned to quickly remove the rivets if you have a compressor.

Collision Hub Video: https://youtu.be/zDIq8psx8hk

3M Mini Belt Sander: https://www.amazon.com/3M-33575-case...6132206&sr=8-2

There are some electric version of the belt sander as well on Amazon.
Makita: https://www.amazon.com/Makita-9032-4...132206&sr=8-15

Feff

[EthanolTurbo]

That's pretty steep for labor costs. I've had several reputable shops quote me around $1k with glass removal and everything. It really isn't that difficult a task for a shop that has prior experience with this.

Sending you a PM

[heinzboehmer]

Besides the glass removal/installation, you can get away with doing it yourself too. Just drill out the million spot welds and make sure to prep everything correctly before panel bonding.

You can probably get any mobile glass installer to come remove and reinstall the glass for you. And a mobile welder to weld in the brace if you can't do it yourself.

[fullyflaredd]

PM me and I'll send you the name of the shops I spoke with. One is in the bay area, and another in socal. As I mentioned they are very reputable shops who have done this before many times so it's not like they're taking on a new unknown project. This is just labor we're speaking of. A bit north of $1k but not by much.

[ra2fanatic]

idk, but $1k sounds too good to be true. I'd love a deal, don't get me wrong, but that just seems sketchy to me.

[fullyflaredd]

That's pretty steep for labor costs. I've had several reputable shops quote me around $1k with glass removal and everything. It really isn't that difficult a task for a shop that has prior experience with this.

[ra2fanatic]

$2k-$3k. I was quoted $2100 just on the labor side of things. That's supplying all the parts.

[Ramo]

That is a nice feature that the Karbonius roof keeps the mountings for the roof rails.

What is the average cost to have a carbon roof installed?

I'm interested on the labor cost as well.

[Slideways]

That is a nice feature that the Karbonius roof keeps the mountings for the roof rails.

What is the average cost to have a carbon roof installed?

[Epsilon]

Some serious packaging indeed, but love it!



How about making some more carbon goodies for our E46 M3, IND?

[IND-Distribution]

This is how IND packs up these RKP roofs.

We take our packaging pretty seriously! Believe it or not, we recently received an actual complaint that we packaged an order with too much bubble wrap 😂

Obviously we're pretty partial to our RKP Carbon Roof. We also offer installs if you're local to the Chicago area; we've probably installed at least 20 roofs (across multiple chassis) over the years.

We still have some 1x1 weave (OE style) carbon roofs in stock, but unfortunately we're still out-of-stock on the 2x2 (unless someone is interested in a crazy custom red kevlar 2x2 carbon roof we've had on hand after a customer backed out 😐). And we're just about caught up on the 2x2 roof back-orders, so wait time on those shouldn't be bad.

2x2 VS 1x1: