Misbehavin

These should show you what mine looks like down.

ShaneM

The top is not down enough, that is what my 05 vert looks like if i don't hold the button long enough. My stock top has no wrinkles at all. Looks like they need to adjust it.

OT- I know there was a service bulletin, the name for them escapes me now, for the top on early 05's with the booms wearing holes near booms 3 and 4 on the back quarter. I am the second owner of my car and the original owner didn't get the top replaced under warranty. The tool actually tried to melt the vinyl back together and it looks bad (before you ask i got a good deal so i bought the car knowing it needs a top and not realizing there was a service advisory about the issue). My question is has anyone had the top replaced on Ford's dime after a warranty expired. the tear is obviously from the issue in the bulletin.

Charlie321

It looks like they didn't bother "training" the top at all. They're supposed to manually guide the folds in the top the first few times they open it so the top folds down properly. It looks like they didn't bother doing this, so your top is bunching up all over the place, keeping it from folding it down all the way.

Also, those wrinkles in the first pic shouldn't be there. If the top is all the way up and locked in that pic, then they installed it wrong and it should be fixed. Good luck.

Centurion96

scary. was that an after market top or a factory top? Was this a dealer that installed it?

Here's my cloth top.

JCON

Can you guys post an original top and the common wear points? I think I may try to avoid it by somehow reinforcing or putting some type of guard on it. I've but a 05 with 25K on it and I put the top down every chance I get.

Misbehavin

I haven't really seen any wear on mine. Some of the stitching had started to disappear over time though. When the dealership replaced the top cables they replaced the stitching as well.

As far as the TSB mentioned above, if anyone is looking for that reference number, it's TSB 07-19-1. I haven't had the issue described in the TSB, but I think the previous owner had this addressed on mine. So I can't really tell you what to look for. There was an old thread around here that discussed it at one time though. It's supposed to only affects cars built before Oct 2006 from my understanding.

roadracer516

That does not look right at all. Looks real sloppy and not lowered enough. Sorry for your pain!


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Could you even put on this tonneau cover? That would prove something is wrong?

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pascal

That top should go down a tad more.

The wrinkles though, I'm affraid, are just the fact that you have a Mustang being a Mustang.

Charlie321

The top should definitely go down a litle more, and wrinkles will happen on any convertible. But that wrinkle on the left quarter is a result of bad installation. It wasn't pulled tight enough during the install. Take it back and make them fix it.

157dB

Thats a bad top install and they should junk it and start with a new top.
Its not going down far enough and the material should have been trained.
Sub par installation. There should be ZERO wrinkles.
Did Ford do this or some yahoo at a top shop?
Stop payment on that check asap.

Maybe they need this....
Or this....