Originally Posted by ZontheRocks (Post 3998776)

Guessing that you ran into a convertible issue. Sorry to hear that.

Originally Posted by ZontheRocks (Post 3998776)

Any additional details that you can provide? Maybe the forum can give you some of that advice you're looking for.

Originally Posted by nr7 (Post 3998772)

stuck and broke down in a hot, expensive, sweat trap

Originally Posted by nr7 (Post 3998792)

spending a week in this hellish sweat box is more than I can bear.

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3998844)

Does the AC work at least?

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3998811)

You bought someone else's headache. When you buy used. It's a 50/50 shot. On this this one. You ate the bullet. :shakes head:

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3998811)

You need to get ahold of Joe at ZSpeed. He can go you going again with the right clutch parts. The previous owner might have not replaced the old CSC. If he did, it's was with the same oem CSC. :shakes head:

Originally Posted by Rusty (Post 3998811)

For the oil temps. Where you live at. A 34 row oil cooler should be on order.

Originally Posted by Red Voodoo (Post 3998847)

Wow. What a mess. Besides the aforementioned fifth bow issue, I've been fortunate: It's been a trouble-free 10k miles for me since my purchase in early-2019. Knock on wood, I guess.

Originally Posted by Red Voodoo (Post 3998847)

Hope that you get back on the road soon.

Originally Posted by nr7 (Post 3998848)

It's not like I can use it, if the car won't drive.

But if you are trying to get me to compliment the car, the HVAC on that money pit is among the best I've had.

Originally Posted by JARblue (Post 3998879)

Well, I just figured it would come in handy in that "hellish sweat box" you're in since you can't go anywhere. Good luck with the repairs.

Originally Posted by nr7 (Post 3998851)

How did you sort out your top issues?

Originally Posted by nr7 (Post 3998849)

The vehicle had been well maintained and garaged. The mistake I made was pretending that driving the thing would be OK. It's designed more to be just looked at.


Joe's out of parts. Thanks. But yeah, I get the routine. Give some 3rd party vendor and mechanic (assuming you can find one who is willing to touch it) thousands of dollars to fix another POS design flaw.


Yup, I already bent over and grabbed my ankles on that one.

The absurdity of that statement becomes apparent when you re-parse it. "A $1000 in aftermarket parts should be purchased and installed if you would like to ready your sports car to be driven up a decent sized hill."

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Originally Posted by nr7 (Post 3998772)

I wish I could say I am a new owner, but I bought a 2010 Sport Touring Roadster 6sp back in February and have been waiting 4 and a half months to get approved to post on the forums.

I could have certainly used some advice from the knowledgeable folks on this forum, while getting the vehicle ready to travel. The best of which would have been not to buy such a flawed, unreliable, poorly designed POS car for such a trip.

$15k for a 2010 Sport/Touring Roadster with 28k miles in excellent condition seemed like such a great deal at the time What a seemingly great car with great performance and Japanese reliability to take on a 4 month post-Covid trip around the perimeter of the US? But little did I know, I would have been better off looking at Yugos. Thousands in upgrades and repairs is hopes of making it into decently reliable transport leaves me stuck and broke down in a hot, expensive, sweat trap where no one is willing to work on the car. Even the dealer here refuses to work on this POS.

Sorry for the down trodden tone, maybe after another few thousand dollars I'll be able to come up with something nice to say.

I hope your car gets you through the day w/o a $1000 repair bill.

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Originally Posted by nr7 (Post 3998792)

That, unfortunately, is not cause of my current chagrin. I figured out that I had the "top-hatch fifth-bow smack" (that plagues EVERYONE) much earlier, shortly after dealing with the realization that she couldn't handle a spirited gallop from the valley up to the ski resorts in 45 F-degree weather without nearly shutting down due to oil cooking. The dozens upon dozens more hours searching, fretting and frustration about the bow-5 design cluster-f*** led me to per chance upon a convertible "top whisperer" in San Diego for whose attention I under took a 14 hour drive and 3 day's hotel stay in an attempt to preemptively stave off that disaster in the offing.

I'll share this wondrous Top Guru's coordinates and digits after I get a little less mad at my obstreperous, she-devil's current recalcitrant antics.



I am currently dealing with "slave disintegration syndrome." The previous owner said he had replaced the clutch with a "competition clutch and billet flywheel" at 15k mi., so I accidentally assumed that I might elude that multi-thousand dollar cluster ****, but as goes it with being owned by this bitch, bend over.

I've somehow learned to live (beaten dog style) with the $1000+ cash hemorrhages this doxie demands, but spending a week in this hellish sweat box, assuming I can find someone willing to work on her, is more than I can bear. The 5 day layover in Memphis was as much as I could tolerate, it's just getting as to where it's not any fun anymore.

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