Cloth Roof???

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I see on e-bay (item 260171616281 ) a 2005 with a cloth roof. I've never seen a cloth roof before on an LS. Was this standard option available or is it an after-market?
 
yeah, i totaly know what your talking about. I saw a deep maroon one with a black "cloth" top on the way home one weekend. I did a double take and had to turn around and go look at it. I could see how it could look pretty good. BTW, it was at a dealer, albeit a small independent one.
 
This has come up a few times in the past, it was not a factory option, but a dealer option. I have seen one in my area a few times.

I'll quote from another thread:


Originally Posted by SoonerLS
No, you haven't. NONE of them rolled off the Wixom assembly line with that "option" installed; those were all done after they arrived on dealers' lots.

As I understand it, there was actually a threat by the president of Lincoln (or was it the LS Program Manager?) of physical violence against any dealers who did that. Some of the longer-tenured LLSOC members can tell you about that--they heard it from the horse's mouth.
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Originally Posted by LS4ME
Yep. Jim Rogers, then VP of Marketing threatened to take a baseball bat to any dealership owner that did that. I was there when he said it. Jim said they could do whatever they wanted to the GM and TC but were to not touch the LS!
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speaking of which, anybody know what the process would be to remove a factory vinyl roof from a car?
 
1/4 tank=90 miles til empty?

I just looked at the pix again and one shows more than 1/4 tank of gas left but only 90 miles until empty. I understand that the computer computes this based on previous usage. Is that correct? With 1/4 tank of gas, my '02 LSE gets a lot better mileage. About 26 highway, 20 city.
The one item I cannot find in the owners manual is if you switch from metric to imperial, is that miles per US gallon or Imperial gallon (1/5 more)? Since the car was produced for North America, my thinking is that it must be US gallons.
 
thats just avg mpg. 90 miles til empty is what i get at about quarter tank.
 
Nasty, I saw one LS with a top like that the other day and it was in my color, that thing was straight up nasty.
 
Eric0508 said:
not the headliner, but the actual roof (on top of the paint, yes, ourtide) is cloth.
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Kinda depends on the type installed. I did a 78 TC - it was nasty glued on. Had to use goof off to get the glue off the roof - use this stuff cautiously as it will damage paint. I really didn't care I was putting a new one on. just primed and sealed the roof are before putting on the new roof. Also I had to remove the headliner to get to the trim bolts.

I did a 92 Grand Marque it had a white vinyl roof - actually after removing the trim bolts it just popped off, it was not glued except around the rear window - mostly silicone which came off with some vigorous rubbing. the top was really a fiberglass cap, slipped on.

There were caps on the doors too, they were the hardest to get off with out hurting the paint. slight use of a heatgun and lots of plastic and wooden scrapers - nothing metal. Wiped with bug and tar remover then waxed the crap out of it. Luckily there was no paint fading - you never would have known, except for the extra Mercury medallion on the sail panel, that it ever had a vinyl roof. Took a good 4 hours.
 
It's called a Carriage Top.

Old Limo and hearse-type option.

Long time LS owners cringe at the thought!
 
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