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Scooby

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PostSubject: Re: Hello and pop up roof advice please.    Hello and pop up roof advice please.  - Page 2 EmptyTue Mar 24, 2015 7:23 pm

irishman wrote:
Welcome to the forum, if it's the van I am thinking of that was recently for sale on here, it's a beaut!

Don't forget our main yearly club get together 'The Kombi sleepover' is in Banbury the weekend 29th to 31st May, a great chance to meet everyone.

For your reference here is a link that provides a little insight to what happened at the Kombi Sleepover in 2013:

2013 Kombi Sleepover

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oldskoolsboy

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PostSubject: Re: Hello and pop up roof advice please.    Hello and pop up roof advice please.  - Page 2 EmptyTue Mar 24, 2015 8:04 pm

Evening Lori & Al and welcome we have a westy style roof fitted by Pete at Space roofs, (pete's company have been making these roofs) and vw camper conversions for years and we love it..
its based on the the late 70"s rear hinged westfalia camper conversion. It will easily take 2 six footers
The other thing to consider is the large front canvas window with built in mosquito net-wonderful on a hot summers night!! and you also get useful storage for your awning in the front top box!!
hope this helps
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PostSubject: Re: Hello and pop up roof advice please.    Hello and pop up roof advice please.  - Page 2 EmptyTue Mar 24, 2015 8:54 pm

The Space Roofs westy style weld in a steel structure back into the roof for strengthening once the roof is cut.

Danbury's pop top is fixed in place with wood which has been fibreglassed to the original metal roof.

Personally I like the look and functionality of the Danbury Roof but would have liked it with the build ethic of the Space Roofs one.
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PostSubject: Re: Hello and pop up roof advice please.    Hello and pop up roof advice please.  - Page 2 EmptyTue Mar 24, 2015 9:42 pm

I think you also need to consider ease of putting away. I find the Danbury roof a right faff to put down (but easy to pop up); I don't know if spaceroofs are any better.
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Bumble

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Hi and welcome to the Brazi bunch!
We are 6 months old but feel like we have been part of the family for much longer.
I personally in the relatively few times we have used our pop up have found it the worst aspect of owning Bumble. It is not too much trouble putting it up but a real malarkey and fiddle to "pop" ..ha ha.. down.
See if you can try some out first before you choose.
Mrs Bumble
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Hi and welcome as well.

I'm with the other when they say the Danbury roof is a faff to put dow, I'm not too keen on the look of the Danbury roof either. Saying that I'm still yet to see a Spaceroof so can't really compare

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PostSubject: Re: Hello and pop up roof advice please.    Hello and pop up roof advice please.  - Page 2 EmptyWed Mar 25, 2015 8:40 pm

Thanks everyone,
Its great to have all this good advice and reassuring to know the van is known as a good one. The meet up sounds great. Unfortunately we're already away on the Banbury Sleepover but hopefully they'll be more?
We have a couple more questions. I'll put these under a different heading.
Thanks
Lori and Al
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Does anyone know how much it costs to change from Danbury popup to a space roof?
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According to their website to fit a Spaceroof is £2950 from scratch. If a pop top is already fitted it's £3100, the extra cost is for disposal of the original

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PostSubject: Re: Hello and pop up roof advice please.    Hello and pop up roof advice please.  - Page 2 EmptyThu Mar 26, 2015 8:45 am

......or you could ask them to keep hold of the old roof and sell it.
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harryhornet wrote:
......or you could ask them to keep hold of the old roof and sell it.

Someone will always want a spare Danbury poptop ....

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MrZippo sold his old Danbury roof a couple of years ago. I wonder where it went?
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Daz bought one....

VWK had one last year that they cannibalised for a replacement sunroof for Tallulah....


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Hi, while this thread is thinking about poptop roofs, has anyone found a foolproof way of lowering the poptop roof easily without the balancing it on your head while you stuff and pull and wriggle the canvas back into place?

Any tips gratefully received!
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fat_pastor wrote:
Hi,  while this thread is thinking about poptop roofs, has anyone found a foolproof way of lowering the poptop roof easily without the balancing it on your head while you stuff and pull and wriggle the canvas back into place?  

Any tips gratefully received!

That's the best bit, balancing it on your head*! cheers

P.

(* no good for under 5' not very much people! lol! )
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Your own head could be replaced by a second person's head.
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I always find that the natural weight of the roof versus the lift of the struts helps at that point- effectively a third closed.

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Hi  

I have not long joined this forum and I have found it so useful, with great friendly advice. I have just had Pete (space roofs) fit a new canvas to our danbury roof and although it looks amazing its an absolute pain to lower. Already I have had to replace gas struts £60 each from Danbury! I can us replacing the danbury for a Westfalia type from Space roofs in Okehampton.

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