Hello all,

Thought I would post up a pic of the 3/16" x 5/8" (doubled up) universal tack strip installed. My original was cracked in many places.

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2000 Sunfire GT Convertible (daughters car, totaled Jan 2014 RIP)

The rivets are 1/8" in diameter and 1/2" deep. This was shown in the Cavalier/Sunfire 1995-2000 Convertible Top Installation Instructions video. Good video.


2000 Sunfire GT Convertible (daughters car, totaled Jan 2014 RIP)

The video does not mention this but the rear body molding won't sit flush once you are done. So when I got finished I ended up with this. I followed video instructions step by step so I never test fit the molding before putting the top on. Apparently the original tack strip had a cut out for the bulkhead on the back side of the molding to fit into. If I were to do this again I would have fit all that molding onto the car before putting the top on and made corrections as needed. I hope my mistake will help others. I was not able to find any threads anywhere on installing the universal tack strip.

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But other then that the video did a great job explaining the procedure.

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2000 Sunfire GT Convertible (daughters car, totaled Jan 2014 RIP)

Old top for comparison.

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you did that yourself? great job sir.

Spencer wrote:you did that yourself? great job sir.

Thanks, yes I spent a week end. Wanted to learn how to do it.


2000 Sunfire GT Convertible (daughters car, totaled Jan 2014 RIP)