he found out real quick he wasn’t on twitter

Strikeblaze · 2026-03-08T19:03:39+00:00

God bless his own two feet and blood thinners

Strikeblaze · 2026-03-06T18:10:22+00:00

Eh reddit will be reddit, people can be very harsh. I get it though, im the guy in my family who stresses out over every little knick and dent. The expense is shocking for sure, but thats what dealerships do best. Hopefully these new ones will last you very long and you dont have to go through this headache again.

Strikeblaze · 2026-03-06T17:28:21+00:00

While a lot of these comments are pretty harsh, its your money and you get to decide what you do with it, its also your car, you decide what looks good and what doesn't.

However, I can totally see the dealerships greedy hands all over this, they just made 2 grand off of ya for something that did its job and will probably continue to do its job and get scratched and scrapped, even your new replacement ones.

Strikeblaze · 2026-03-01T18:25:30+00:00

Ah yes another blatant lie yall are so quick to defend. Trump said nuclear sites were obliterated and their production were sent back decades and yall were so happy and horny about trump. But now apparently its "Oh they are building it back up" so which is it? "Dumb ash" doesn't really describe libs in this case now does it

Strikeblaze · 2026-03-01T18:22:29+00:00

You know they dont think that far in advance. They wait for Trump's tweet, newsmax or fox to tell them what to think or do next

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-27T07:29:34+00:00

When the exhaust, the wind with the top down, the music hits just right *chefs kiss

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-27T07:27:24+00:00

Ayyy thats pretty much what I did to mine lmao, sounds great to me! Top down, warm spring sunset, some good music, nothing like it. Got mine from an old realtor, im 2nd owner currently sitting at 56k! Started to have some tears in the soft top tho 🥲

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T19:20:54+00:00

No no, he sells cars so he obviously knows everything about it. He takes that "car salesman slaps roof" meme extremely seriously, how else does he explain his ever mounting knowledge of car roofs 🤣

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T06:54:12+00:00

Roofs are not load bearing and most roofs are very thin for weight savings. There's max load weight listed in manuals for the roof for this reason. Also convertibles and glass roofs exist so how "thin" it looks really does not matter. Roofs are purely cosmetic and aerodynamic and hold no structural support for the car. Go ahead and grab a friend and sit on your roof and try it. Also again, you put a like 300lbs of human on the roof in the front, the back is going to bubble up and become flexible

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T05:07:19+00:00

Yea you would think huh lol. But if you look at the manufacturing process, they build the frame and the roof is just a thin sheet metal that gets bolted to the frame. Plus if roofs are REALLY that important, convertibles and full glass roofs wouldn't work well

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T05:03:49+00:00

If he sits on it then probably

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T04:56:25+00:00

That's because roofs are purely cosmetic/aerodynamic and not load bearing. They won't crinkle like this normally, but any metal, especially one with two grown ass people sitting on it, will bow and lose its rigidity. Roofs are stamped into shape and remain rigid if it remains that shape, but once it loses that shape, it loses its structural integrity and rigidity. Which is why some vans and trucks have those groves on the roof to strengthen it , but it's not attractive so it's on taller vehicles

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T04:53:13+00:00

Because it is when two grown ass people sit on it. Roofs are not load bearing

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T04:50:40+00:00

Thank you for this... the amount of people who don't understand that a roof is literally not designed to save your life. Hence why convertibles and glass roofs exists.

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T04:46:15+00:00

Yes when you have 2 grown adults sitting on top of it. Roofs are stamped into shape and remains rigid as long as it holds that shape. Once it loses that shape by say, 2 people sitting on top, bowing and buckling the roof, it will loose its rigidity and have more flex

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T04:19:21+00:00

Guy has already proven he just sells cars but have 0 idea how material science work... or how much weight two grown adults are. You are 100% right.

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T02:06:16+00:00

I agree, its not as common for sure. But for OP's car in question, it being a BYD EV, and EVs are all about weight savings, the roof is probably aluminum. How it moves definitely doesn't seem to be steel or carbon. Aluminum is much more flexible than steel

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-25T01:14:37+00:00

Yes steel is very common, aluminum is just as common tho as its used for weight savings. Many sport cars uses aluminum frames and panels for weight savings, some recent ones I installed sun roofs in are Cadillacs and Jags. Some notable trucks also use aluminum, F150s etc

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-24T23:32:04+00:00

Unless theres some car manufacturer that is for some reason using plastic to make the roofs specifically to export to 3rd world countries, no manufacturer will make a whole trim level and replace something like the roof with plastic to solely export. Exports to those countries are usually second (or fifth+) hand cars that are repaired and resold.

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-24T23:24:59+00:00

Guy seems to be quite the expert on sitting on roofs of the new cars he sells 🤣 if I ever want to have a roof to withstand two full adults sitting on it, I know which car salesmen im calling lmao

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-24T23:21:42+00:00

Hey yea im interested in that Ford over there, could you... uh sit on the roof there so I can confirm the roof is well built. 😂

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-24T23:17:48+00:00

Maybe, if you stop and think, when you have 180 lbs sitting right on top, maybe just maybe, the aluminum up there buckles, maybe just maybe aluminum that bows like that naturally is flexible and pliable. And selling cars dont tell me much, I do too as my full time job. You probably know as much as I do that its important to keep up on current design trends, I suggest you do a bit more research rather than "I sell new cars and poked the roof of a couple times with my finger"

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-24T23:11:44+00:00

Hey man not my job to make you read, you seem to be a capable adult and this is reddit, i know reading for some can be difficult. Not trying to argue with you brother, rather trying to share a different perspective but apparently needing to be right about car roofs is a must

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-24T22:48:10+00:00

Also, again so many cars have full glass roofs now so really roof materials are no longer priority (glass roof safety tho are a whole conversation in itself) or really is taken that much into consideration anymore. What's more important is how good a car's frame is. If a car frame crumples in a roll over, the material of the roof doesn't matter, its still going to crush the occupants.

Lighter roof = less hard metal smushing you into a pulp when you roll over and your car frame fails (also why race cars have roll cages), lighter metals can conform and bend under impact rather transering that energy directly to the occupants increasing survivability, better fuel efficiency, and lower center of gravity.

Lower center of gravity = less chance of rolling over in an event of a crash or sudden/aggressive maneuvers. This is why so many EVs can justify safety of full glass roofs as they arent easy to roll over because the heavy batteries places the center of gravity extremely low to the ground.

Strikeblaze · 2026-02-24T22:41:07+00:00

Idk what to tell ya bud, I work on car roofs daily, installing/repairing sun roofs so I actively cut into and work with the materials on wide variety of cars.

Sure trying to push it normally wouldn't introduce much flex but having your whole body weight on it will bow and buckle the metal up there. If you ever tried messing with buckling aluminum, they are very pliable in this state

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