Astra TwinTop Owners Club

If any members have suffered dents in the rear roof pillars for no apparent reason please could you post photos here in this thread which will help others seeking evidence that this is not an owner generated fault.

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louise

Might be worth noting that these dents in theory should be half way up the flanks of the panels that when closed enclose the rear window.. Thats where mine was..

Hi

I m from Singapore. I have 2 similar incidents. I thought someone dented my car. send backt o OPEL for repairs as dents.

They did not say anything except vandalism .

First incident April 09 left side ( taken pics, repaired by OPEL)
2nd Incident Sept 09 Right side ( no pics taken, repaired by OPEL)

After joining this site, I found similar incodents, so I email to OPEL, now they are looking at it.

This is a photo of my dents. I am about to do battle with Vauxhall as I was told by dealer yesterday that roof warranty is for one year only. My car is 2 years old but has only 6600 miles on the clock. The dealer contacted Vauxhall who refused to do anything. He has seen 3 cars all with the same dents in the same place.

Ouch! They don't look like they have been 'pulled' from the inside which negates one theory. Are you positive there was nothing in the boot?

yeah...looks bad...mine was like that too

Well lets build up some evidence and I will take it up with Vauxhall

The only thing that was in the boot was an umbrella. I rarely use the car and the roof even less. It has only been used maybe a dozen times in 2 years as I live just north of Newcastle on Tyne and last summer I think we managed one day with the roof down. I thought my car had been vandalized until I went to a Ladies night at the dealership. The chief mechanic who was showing me how to top up levels sand change a tyre spotted the dents and remarked that this was the third TT he had seen like this. One had dents on both rear pillars. It appears to be the 07 batch that is affected. Mine certainly had a manufacturers recall on the roof and has not been the same since as it usually jams now where it didn't before.

ttlady - received your email... Mine was similar to that - the dealership guessed the valuator had left something in the boot when he was cleaning it and just opened the roof - Poooow Dent... - They just replaced the panel - no questions.. It was on the the passengers side.. If that helps>?<

Hi to everybody on the site i also have the circular ding on the rear pillar which I thought i had caused with a brolly sitting on the shelf area while trying to close the roof not sure if this is what happened but i assumed I had caused it but not so sure looking at simialr dents its about the size of a golf ball and curved but no paint split pic to follow

Ours is the same... dent to O/S rear pillar clean circular dent with no paint abrasion.

Hi Adels, what year is your TT?

Sorry no photos but my 2007 TT had dents as you describe on both sides of rear window pillar. Vauxhall authorised body work repair this week. Is damage likely to occur again? Sheila

Ive had exactly this problem, it was on the car when i bought it, sales guy told me it was because of some "shopping" in the boot that had got caught.

Also the black paint is coming off on the window......








Sorry for the shit pics my cam just broke so had to use blackberry.

My personal feeling is that most of these dents are down to the disgaceful state of the UK roads.
I know that the VW EOS (ewww nasty car) doesn't have these problems.
But then again, i calculated spec for spec, if i had bought the equivalent EOS (ewww nasty car), i would have paid an extra £8,000.
After buying my used TT i called into my local dealership and asked their expert about the roof dents.
He came out to the car and tightened two bolts.
Motto.
You get what you pay for and NEVER trust a car dealership.

Hello everybody!

My car is 2007 TT and don't have any dents, for this moment. The roads are very poor in Galician (Spain) and I usually goes with the roof down in summer. I hope don't have any dents in the future.

Vauxhall dealer saying items in boot caused damage but nothing was in the boot of my wifes
Astra glad I found this website to show them what is causing the problem.

I notice i had one on my left side and in the same place..... Im glad I'm not the only person too have one,
on the car, its in for its 4th service in a few weeks I'll tell the dealer...

I had a dent appear on my old model (56) assumed it had been caused by an umbrella in the boot. So got my son, who runs a paint less dent removal business to remove it. He did and you could not see that it had ever been there.

Ron - roughly where's your Son firm based.... Might be a mutal benefit in knowing his location especially if he's okay in doing cash jobs for forumn peeps

Stu wrote:Ron - roughly where's your Son firm based.... Might be a mutal benefit in knowing his location especially if he's okay in doing cash jobs for forumn peeps

He owns and operates "All out dents" and his patch is Leeds area

had my tt for 2 months now and just noticed i have a dent on the left had side what caues this ? x

I have just joined the site today - bizarrely wanting to find out info about the spare wheel, or lack of one! I bought my 2009 Twintop Sport secondhand a few weeks ago - the private seller did point out a small dent in the driver's side rear window/roof strut at the time, but I have since noticed a "double" dent has now appeared on the passenger side rear strut. I had no idea how this occurred - I had not even opened the roof!! I had just assumed something had fallen onto the car and dented it . . . . I am therefore amazed to read of so many others suffering the same problem - if I had nothing in the the boot and not even opened the roof, how can these additional dents have occured? I am going to take pics and post on here. Having bought the car privately, it is still under 3 years old, can I still go back to a Vauxhall dealer to investigate the complaint under warranty or does that expire upon change of owner? If anyone has meanwhile had any positive results with these dents I would very much like to hear about it.

Red Leader wrote:Well lets build up some evidence and I will take it up with Vauxhall

Red - Have you taken this up with vauxhall yet?

Any feedback on a response?

Im buying a second hand 08 plate Astra TT next week (via Network Q) and will be checking this area for dents before purchase, just wondered what I should do if I ever end up seeing these in the future, do they fall under the 100,000 mile warranty offered by Network Q?

thanks

If it helps at all, I attach pics of my dents - a smaller one on the driver's side, and a "double" dent on the passenger side. Am looking to get some quotes for paintless dent removal, but am loathed to pay out if it is considered a design/mechanism fault which could re-occur.

Any further update/thoughts welcome.

Lissco, they are nasty

I picked up my 08 plate twintop this week, it doesn't have these dents (YET!)

But will be keeping an eye on them, all the photos on this post seem to have identical dents in the same place, if it is someone leaving an obstruction in the boot then its weird how everyones seem to be in the same place.

Has anyone got vauxhall to admit this is a design fault?

Think we just need to keep gathering as many photos as possible in this thread for now

By the same token, has anyone had their TT for a while now and NOT had these dents? it would be nice to know if people don't suffer from it and see what the common factor is for these people

I no longer have my TT, but I had it for 2 years and didn't get the dents.

Oz

Had my TT getting on for 18 months now, thankfully dent free to date!