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Technical => Chassis & Braking => Topic started by: RyanC on December 23, 2013, 05:38:36 PM

Title: Saftey devices cage
Post by: RyanC on December 23, 2013, 05:38:36 PM
Will it fit with a factory fitted sunroof without copping the cage anyone fitted one to a car with a factory fitted sunroof?
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: Yoof on December 23, 2013, 08:05:49 PM
No mate- see Robins build thread  :)
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: RyanC on December 23, 2013, 09:21:14 PM
Ah man okay cheers
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: hayesey on December 24, 2013, 09:14:34 AM
nope definitely wont fit!  Right ball-ache getting the original sunroof out and all it's tray too.  Not to mention finding a way of blocking the big hole up!  I ended up just going for the metal panel and rivets method
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: cheddarcheese on February 20, 2014, 11:13:56 PM
Quote from: hayesey on December 24, 2013, 09:14:34 AM
nope definitely wont fit!  Right ball-ache getting the original sunroof out and all it's tray too.  Not to mention finding a way of blocking the big hole up!  I ended up just going for the metal panel and rivets method

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Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: Tav on April 06, 2014, 07:53:20 PM
I'd love a photo of the sunroof with head lining removed. Surely just some bits could be removed to fit cage and sure the sunroof wouldn't work, but wouldn't need to come out?
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: hayesey on April 07, 2014, 09:24:08 AM
it sits in a big metal tray that's glued to the inside of the roof and spot welded around the sunroof hole.

May be possible to cut a slot in it the width of the car for the rollover hoop to fit in although you'd also have to cut through the tracks inside that the sunroof slides down as well as the workings that go inside it.  Having said that, the front part of the cage might also be in the way of the sides of the tray around the sunroof hole.

Possibly turn into as much work as removing it.
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: z3i on April 07, 2014, 08:42:31 PM
should you not have fitted a cage before your car was painted ryan??
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: Robin on April 07, 2014, 09:48:34 PM
It won't fit with the sunroof in - I chopped my cage down few inches to get it to fit which is a bitch of a job as the angle of the cage mounting points change.

Also you will suffer from side bar being way to low to be of any use if you get T-barred.
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: Matty! on May 01, 2014, 12:42:06 PM
Does any company produce a cage for sunroofed Polo's?
Title: Re: Saftey devices cage
Post by: z3i on May 01, 2014, 12:53:49 PM
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