Install the hatch on the car

If the experience - "spoil the roof of the car" can be relatively easy to handle, then the anticipation of future leaks in it you will never leave. With a good model of the hatch it will happen at least not immediately.

Saving on installation, we chose the more expensive, but proven hatch Farmont 1000. Its lid can be opened as throwing and sliding.
Work only with scissors
Scissors cut the sheet with no burrs, slot width of 5 mm is obtained, without sawdust, and waves of rounding. Hacksaw will penetrate through the roof and not necessarily where you want. Caught in the interior lining filings with the time show up spots of rust.
And another advantage of this model. It has a shutter, which can lower the front of the glass when the sun is too pripechet.
Not recommend to give preference cheapest models hatches and remember "free cheese".
Cheap hatches with a stable frame just does not happen. But it is the frame must restore the damaged stability of the body, which he lost after cutting holes.
Models hatches for self-installation offers a variety. What is right for your car, you should understand: for a convex "bug" Volkswagen - small, for a Mercedes - a little more, and for domestic cars should be specified by a specialist. This is usually indicated directly on the packaging hatch.
In principle, the installation itself is simple: cut out the pattern hole in the roof sheathing, insert the top into the hole the main frame and the inside - her mate, and then steal their screws. After that, install the glass cover and - done.
But first, accurately determine the position of the hatch. To do this, put the template in the right place and "Iron Rule" - 20 cm from the windshield. Easy nadavlivaniem fingers on top, you can determine which pass under the sheet transverse ribs. They will be separated. Caution: Do not incise!
Inside the machine through a hole in the skin also determine the position of ribs and cables (eg from an antenna). In our example - Volkswagen Santana - There was only one rib.
To make cutouts in the roof and interior panels coincided with a screwdriver through a template mark the center cut holes, first from within. The template center outside of a small bulge (trace marking the inside), you can schedule the cutting line. Electric scissors cut the gap to be the length and width greater than 2 mm size of the main frame: When two of the frame pull together, then between them there is a convex roof, requiring the compression of a small gap.
Interior lining cut carpet cutter: first, rough, then sure. Doorway there must be greater than the outer to inner (mating) of the frame pursed only to the metal. Screws tighten on the long side first, then - in short and in the end - at the corners.
Two movements set to cover lock, and after a busy night you can hit the road with the breeze.
Council rofessionala n: a drop of tar dreaming about the car with the hatch: 10 years warranty on sealed hatch give in Europe, only when placed in a specialized firm.