Recent content by SailorDan

In the Maker I added a roof wrap to a square-back SUV, and it wrapped the pickup cab but not the SUV top. Very weird looking. I'll see if I can share....

Well, I'll only be 82! Oops. Mis-added. That's 102. Oh well.

That's what I thought, too. But now, with the Open-Air SUV Kit no longer listed as a body style but as an accessory package (with TBD cost) that requires the square-back SUV body style, I am not so certain.

Early Porsches had huge QC problems. On the assembly line, body panels were beaten with rubber mallets until they fit together, more or less, then screwed or tack-welded in place. In retrospect it seems more quaint and curious than problematic and serious. I doubt the lucky owner of a survivor...

That's the exactly kind of nonsense that I have been bitching about. Don't get me wrong. I love the Slate and all its variations that make it so cool. I have preordered one, and I am looking forward to ordering and taking possession of one. Maybe that's why all the shucking and jiving about...

Making batteries and cars in Georgia, but only for full-price sale, don't want any tax breaks for local folks to buy any. Georgia has joined Massachusetts and Illinois and California as high tax states. The other three at least offer some tax breaks for doing the right thing. Not GA. We have...

Oh, right. You just had to be realistic. On the other hand, if the Slate agent is right, that means you can pop a hardtop onto the bed without a roll-cage. Yea!

Wow! Excellent news. I don't see any mention of whether the Cargo Kit top will have windows or not or maybe a choice of either. Maybe it does not look like the one they had pictured and pulled. ???

You're on! I have no idea really. It just seems like a good bet.

Hah hah! Then store unused parts on the roof rack of your Suburban.

Yep. Again, contradictory, or at least confusing, info from Slate. I realize this not a production vehicle yet, but if they don't make up their minds soon about some basic stuff, it never will be. Some of us have put down $300 non-refundable on this, and the only model / package / price we are...

Lots of questions and guesses here. Some contradictory, or at least confusing, information from Slate. The Maker always shows the roll-bar and seats in both square-back and fastback SUV builds. The Open-Air Kit (meaning the roll-bar and seats sans top as shown in the Slate photos and Maker...

Makes me nervous, however, that they dropped the hard top Cargo Kit picture that was on the Fleet page.

I thought of this first. After all, that is what we used to do with single stage paints. But a ppg panel is not a painted surface, and the likelihood of uneven finishes is very high. Then again, if you just get it close, maybe a ceramic finish on top of a pretty close smooth plastic might turn...

If PPF is made to stick to paint and has a different adhesive than needed for polypropylene,, what do they use on Corvettes and other GFR bodies? Does Slate have a special adhesive that no one else does, for a one-of-a-kind surface? Thanks for all the info, folks. I am learning just how much I...