Ok, so in the process of wrecking my car I am getting a new softtop as well. Since the old one was in VERY bad shape I have to pay a 10% betterment fee. Which means... I either pay $78 for plastic rear window OR $278 for the glass rear window. I prefer the glass for obvious reasons of not having to get out of the car to press the middle in and no hastle of scratches. But needless to say there is a big difference in price between the two. Opinions please.

 

I say go for glass. This is the cheapest opportunity you'll ever have to make the switch.

Personally, I prefer the glass because:
- It's easier to keep clean.
- There's not fooling around with it to go down correctly.
- It just looks better (IMO).

The only real downside it a little bit less visibility.

I say go for it.

 

I'd go glass too, but you'll have to add the defroster bits - is that covered in the $200 difference?

Glass is a lot easier to deal with - I know lots of people with convertibles and they all wish they had glass (Porsche, Miata, etc).

 

Go Glass!



D.

 

Glass FTW

 

How long will you keep the car?

You won't get any of the $$ back at resale so the only "return" you'll get is driver satisfaction.

Tell you what. I'll give you $278 for the new top and my old API top.

Deal?

 

Well...I just converted to glass this weekend (and wow what a job it is when you do it yourself).

Really, the glass only has 2 drawbacks: 1) it looks a bit goofy being truncated halfway down compared to the plastic...but I'll get used to it; 2) amount of rear visability takes some getting used to compared to plastic...I found myself dipping my head today trying to get more view from the rearview mirror.

But in my opinion those are minor compared to the fact that the glass will never cloud up, never crease, will resist scratching and can be cleaned without polishing or plexus.

I think even if you sell it, the glass will be a good selling point.

Go for it...

 

glass

 

how much do you value your rear window vision?
if you want to see more stay with plastic.
try hopping into one with glass to get an idea.

 

Well, considering the fact that my rear window has been so bad that I havent looked out of it in over a year now so I dont even use it. I just hate having to clean the plastic. But I think after much thought and consideration that I am going to get the plastic top unfortunately... I have some engine maintenance things that are really high priority once I get the car back (AHEM, valve adjustment!). I plan on keeping my S2000 forever pretty much, I just dont understand the insurance company POV on this one. If I had an S2000 with glass window ST they would cover it, but since it has the plastic one they wont, despite the glass top being OEM. I mean, whats an extra $200 to them when theyre already covering $5,300??