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I just purchased a new top boot cover for my BJ8 without the hardware pre installed. Can anyone with experience provide any advice for fitting the cover and any tips for installing the tenax fasteners and two piece snaps before I start cutting holes in the material. thank you gcoll
 
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If you plan on doing it yourself be sure the top is stored correctly and be sure it is a very warm day so the cover will stretch properly over the stored top.
 
gcoll,

On the BJ8, the first thing you need to do is make sure all the male ends are properly located and fastened to the car. If you installed a new interior at some point, you may have missing, lose or incorrectly positioned fasteners on the car.

With the top all the way down, start by laying the boot cover over the top. Get it the correct position. It helps here is you have another person who can hold the cover down on one side, while you do the other. Try to get it centered so that you are positioning the snaps at the same location on either side with the same margins between the edge of the cover and the snap. Pay attention to the center snaps and make sure they will reach when the side snaps are in place. You can pull the ends so tighe that the center snaps won't reach.

When you have it right, mark the center of each snap location with a silve colored sharpie. Just put a dot on the pint where you can feel the male end through the material of the cover.

Now you need to install the two piece female sides of the fastener. Get yourself a good hole punch and punch out the holes. Trying to do this with a razor knife can be dangerous to you and the cover. As I recall, the tennex fastener is a single hole installation.
 
About that warm day. If you do it on a very warm day it will not fit on a cold day! I once put a new top (hood) on my TR3 on a warm day and could not erect it on a cold day and fasten all of the snaps. I would recommend a moderate temperature day.
 
I agree with what Bill says, but when I did the top and tonneau on our BN4 I made sure I started in the center and marked the first tennax. I then installed that tennax using a good hole punch. I then put the tonneau back on the car snapping the first tonneau and then marked for each next tennax on each side of center. I then removed the tonneau and installed those two tnnax snaps and then repeated the procedure again doing two at a time from the center out each time removing to install the tennax's and then reinstalling before marking for the next two. It takes longer but the results are a nice tight fitting and centered top or tonneau.
 
gcoll said:
I just purchased a new top boot cover for my BJ8 without the hardware pre installed. Can anyone with experience provide any advice for fitting the cover and any tips for installing the tenax fasteners and two piece snaps before I start cutting holes in the material. thank you gcoll
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Be sure to compare your old one with the new one. My old one fit great but me new one doesn't! Fortunately I didn't punch any holes in it so hopefully I can return it soon. The spacing between the piping from the rear to the front of the new Boot cover is almost 2" in error compared to the old one.
 
Patrick67BJ8 said:
Be sure to compare your old one with the new one. My old one fit great but me new one doesn't! Fortunately I didn't punch any holes in it so hopefully I can return it soon. The spacing between the piping from the rear to the front of the new Boot cover is almost 2" in error compared to the old one.
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Thanks for the tips guys, I still have the original cover and it fits every where except, where it has shrunk it does not fit in back in the interior where the three two piece snaps hold it at the top of the back seat.
 
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