The carbon slicktop thread

[robgill]

Work in progress

[TheSt|G]

Cool mod, bit of a steep price for 52lbs and an inch of headroom, but I get it.

Definitely more than an inch, I would guess at least two.

[akshon]

Any decent body shop can do this. Its more time consuming than technically difficult. There is a lot of anxiety on spending this much money to rip off a perfectly good roof but looking at the roof everyday I have no regrets.

[Epsilon]

My Lang Racing Roof. Weave and fit is perfect, carbon is strong enough to stand on. Only problem is it did not come lacquered so had to do it myself.

Please share the details. Where did get it installed?

[akshon]

My Lang Racing Roof. Weave and fit is perfect, carbon is strong enough to stand on. Only problem is it did not come lacquered so had to do it myself.

[usdmej]

Hard to believe it's lighter-- the factory stuff is effectively weightless.

I could believe it works better.

have you ever held a magic eraser? the factory cotton jute is relatively much heavier

[Nate047]

Cool mod, bit of a steep price for 52lbs and an inch of headroom, but I get it.

[Obioban]

if you have the car apart it's worth your time to avoid buying this and instead use melamime foam to to absorb sound

https://www.secondskinaudio.com/soun...ega-zorbe-foam

it's slightly lighter and actually designed for it's intended purpose. the OE stuff is pretty much chopped up jeans and tshirts glued together.
4 sq feet is enough to insulate the roof

Hard to believe it's lighter-- the factory stuff is effectively weightless.

I could believe it works better.

[usdmej]

CSL roof insulation:
Front: https://www.ecstuning.com/b-genuine-...t/51488229733/
Rear: https://www.ecstuning.com/b-genuine-...n/51488229734/
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if you have the car apart it's worth your time to avoid buying this and instead use melamime foam to to absorb sound

https://www.secondskinaudio.com/soun...ega-zorbe-foam

it's slightly lighter and actually designed for it's intended purpose. the OE stuff is pretty much chopped up jeans and tshirts glued together.
4 sq feet is enough to insulate the roof

[Epsilon]

Never heard of DTM mentioned in the forums before, but they are really low cost at $695 for FRP and $995 for carbon and $150 flat ship.

https://dtmfiberwerkz.com/index.php?...product_id=259

[enjoy_m3]

Anyone have experience with the DTM carbon roof?

[Epsilon]

I was planning on ordering it here: https://parts.bmwnorthwest.com/p/BMW...318242962.html and then just picking it up. It's in Tacoma WA, which is only two hours north of me. They're selling it for $776. Although they list shipping as $12.95 to Oregon...

I ordered it to see if they'd honor the $12.95 shipping and of course they did not. =p They wanted close to $400 to ship.

In other news, there's a headliner on Ebay selling for $300 that needs to be reupholstered in case anyone is looking for local pickup in New Jersey. Search item number 143446606317.

[terra]

The problem is AUD to USD is rubbish at the moment and so is shipping... whereas I have a local Wurth dealer that gives me good prices and I have used Wurth to replace basically all my OEM stuff underseal etc so I am comfortable with Wurth as an OEM replacement I just dont know what equivalent glue they provide to bond the roof on...

You don't have to order from ECS, that stuff should be available from any BMW parts vendor.

[STAATS]

Painted bits of CSL diffusers generally look okay, especially in OEM guise.




I'd probably use the glue that BMW uses on the E9x. I believe it's this stuff: https://www.ecstuning.com/b-genuine-...l/83190417144/

The problem is AUD to USD is rubbish at the moment and so is shipping... whereas I have a local Wurth dealer that gives me good prices and I have used Wurth to replace basically all my OEM stuff underseal etc so I am comfortable with Wurth as an OEM replacement I just dont know what equivalent glue they provide to bond the roof on...

[liam821]

Where would you order an OEM slicktop roof panel at a reasonable price? ECS shipping and taxes make it about the same cost as a carbon one shipped from Karbonius.

I was planning on ordering it here: https://parts.bmwnorthwest.com/p/BMW...318242962.html and then just picking it up. It's in Tacoma WA, which is only two hours north of me. They're selling it for $776. Although they list shipping as $12.95 to Oregon...