The top of my 91 civic hatch is about as rigid as a kite. Is this normal? Driving down the road with a decent amount wind will cause it to buckle inward and then pop back out. Not sure if that's a good way to describe that, but basically I'm just complaining that it's so flimsy and would like to know if there are any common ways to fix that.

Thanks.

 

wtf...?? strong wind causes your roof to flex in? wow..ive had 5 hatches and have never seen the roof be that flimsy

 

Yeah. Or when I'm drying it off after washing it, just a little pressure pushes it inward. I'm guessing it's not normal then?

 

Did someone cut out the supports?

 

lol, your car seems to be effed up man.

 

Previous owner changed the headliner. It's possible. I haven't really messed with the car too much as of yet, as it has only 66k miles and I've only had it for a month. Don't want to start messing with quite yet! But the roof thing is really bothering me. I guess tomorrow I'll take out the headliner and see what's underneath? Or what isn't?

 

not normal at all if a power washer pushes in the roof lol...does this hatch have a sunroof? a headliner still on there? check those webbing supports on there

 

If someone installed an aftermarket sun roof they may have cut the supports out and made your hatch a tin can.

 

No aftermarket sunroof. I'm guessing that the supports have been cut out. A tin can is a good way to describe the car. Any ways I can fix it?

 

Weld the supports back in?

Even with the supports, the EF roof really is pretty flimsy. But it shouldn't buckle in while driving on the freeway.

Take some pics of the roof with the headliner removed, I'd love to see this

 

Meh. Going to go get pictures right now.

 

Not that flimsy though.If you cant source replacement braces, taking some 2" wide flat bar and welding that in will solve the problem. An old customer of mine had an aftermarket sunroof installed and his roof was about as solid as a piece of paper. Bent them up to fit the contours and welded them in. Problem solved.

 

Okay. Went out and partially removed the head liner. Looks like the supports are there still, but you tell me, because I don't know what it's supposed to look like.









Video showing how flimsy it is, hard to tell maybe..

 

That rear support in the above pic looks to be your problem. It looks like it's pushed down

Then again, in your first picture, it looks like you have a rather large dent smack between the two supports. Once you get one of those large concave dents, they'll just dent in and out in and out over and over

 

my sedan is the same way the roof is flismy like that i checked the supports and they are good... i think the problem was that somebody jumped on the roof and then pushed it back out... but i think im going to find some better supports... i dont i think you should do the same

 

I was planning on taking the car to a body shop to get that **** on the roof fixed anyway. They could figure out a way to reinforce it couldn't they?

 

That's called "Oil canning". And no my hatch doesn't do it.

 

Most likely you just need to re glur the supports to your roof. It looks like its seperated

 

my hatch had the exact same issue. it was caused by some damage to the topi fixed it with some really thick glue.... hahah on mine whenever you would go between 55-60 mph is when it would do that when my speedo broke thats how i knew how fast i was movin hahah