by droopsnoot » Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:09 am
I had one on my Firenza when I first got it, but when the car was repainted I had it removed partly because I didn't like the look of it, and partly because I was a bit concerned about what was going on underneath it. Mine had some suspicious bubbles along the front edge of the roof, although they did turn out to be glue rather than anything worse.
As for what's underneath it, it all depends on whether it's a factory option - there's plenty of scope for it to have been fitted at a later date, in which case it will be painted underneath. Code 507 on the SPI plate denotes "Fabric roof covering (Onyx)".
I did also hear a tale that if a car reached the final inspection stage with a few dents in the front edge of the roof, if they were too difficult to sort out (the front edge has another piece below as you probably know, and a clue to it having had some dents is a hole along the edge of the windscreen aperture) then the solution was: customer gets a free vinyl roof.