Update on my cracked rear window

[Schumi]

So a good year ago shortly after I bought my Boxster S, the rear window cracked on me when putting it down. I put off getting a new window installed until recently (yes I drove around with a crack in the window for nearly a year... )

I had remembered someone, I think it was milt, mentioned a shop in Long Beach by the name of Bill's Top Shop- so I found their number and gave Patty - the owner- a call. The reason it took me so long to get it replaced was that I really didn't know anyone in the area after moving here and didn't have a way to drop my car off at a shop that wasn't local... thankfully, when I dropped my car off with Patty she drove me to the metro station so I could catch the train back to Los Angeles. She had the plastic window replaced in a day, and the next day I took the metro back to Long Beach, where she again picked me up from the train station to go pick up my car! Total cost to have the old, yellow, cracked window cut out and a new, perfectly taunt and clear window sewn back in, in 1 day? $290.

It's not quite OEM, but for the price and the service you can't beat it. She had another Boxster there along with mine and from the sound of it they do a Boxster once a week or so (!).


Just figured I'd pass on the details for anyone reluctant to get a plastic window replaced- even if mine wasn't cracked, just having a clear one is worth the money- at least to hold me over until I need to replace the whole canvas (It has another 3-4 years I think) at which time I will get a glass window top from GAHH.

[BYprodriver]

Good to know, thanks for posting!

[Wayne 962]

Can you post the number and address of the shop? I get asked for this type of information all the time - I will just lead people back to this thread.

thx,

Wayne

[Zeke]

Bill's recently moved, this is the new address (where Schumi went)

1929 E. 28th St. Signal Hill CA 90755 562 -436-4941 (Behind the granite counter top place.)

Wayne, they advertise in the Grand Prix Region newsletter.

I first had work done by whom I assume was Patty's father in 1965. Patty has got to be in her 70's and worked there a long time.

PS, don't be confused by her dog health food business she runs out of the same location. She's very passionate about that as well as tops.

[Wayne 962]

Converible tops and dog food. I can see the synergies there.

Wayne

[Zeke]

Update:

I have seen Mike's window job and I'll say it's different than I expected. They cut the old window out flush with the canvas and sewed the replacement under the opening leaving the old perimeter in place. Their sewing is outside the original line of stitching making a 2nd row.

Is this typical of how this is done at other shops?