Has anyone tested the performance figures with the Hard top and with the Soft Top?
Any range difference?
Any range difference?
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Has anyone tested the performance figures with the Hard top and with the Soft Top?
Any range difference?
There is more to it than weight alone, but the hard top is actually lighter than the soft top...
Thanks, man. My Tesla salesman told me that the hard top was lighter. He quoted 8 lbs for the hard top and 12 lbs for the soft top. But he's gotten a number of other technical details wrong, too, so I guess I should weigh these for myself (although I don't have the proper scales - I'd have to weigh myself with and without the top, and that's not terribly accurate).Hard top: 22 pounds
Soft top: 12 pounds
... I'd have to weigh myself with and without the top, and that's not terribly accurate).
What tech did you use to weigh your tops, and did you get tenths of a pound in accuracy?
I just weighed my soft top, and got 13 or 14 lbs, but my bathroom scale has whole pound increments. That's not terribly accurate, so I'm not about to remove my hard top for such a coarse measurement. At this point, I might as well report the weight in cats. The soft top is 1 cat, and I presume the hardtop is 2 cats.the values I got were 22.2 and 12.2 and I rounded them for my previous post.
...That's not terribly accurate, so I'm not about to remove my hard top for such a coarse measurement. At this point, I might as well report the weight in cats. The soft top is 1 cat, and I presume the hardtop is 2 cats.
[Note: my hard top is a clear coat one. I assume that there might be some significant difference in the production process, but wouldn't think that there would be a significant weight difference from a non-clear-coat one. Someone should weigh a non-clear-coat one and post here if it is significantly different.]
Supposedly the clear coat CF hard tops are significantly heavier than the body colored ones. At least that's what I heard unofficially from Tesla folks back when people were still waiting for their tops. Would be interesting to have a measurement.
That's a really good point.I had wondered if they maybe built them about the same and added essentially a decorative layer or two to create the clear coat ones, but I wouldn't have thought they'd end up anywhere near doubling the weight. Considering how thin and flexible mine is, I'll be really impressed if the non-clear-coat ones are significantly lighter.
Those of you who are waiting please be patient. It's worth it.