Lifting roof

A pop-up roof or sunroof is a special form of the sunroof . The roof is not pushed back, but raised at the rear. The airflow is directed through the opening so that no drafts can get into the interior.

General

It is therefore often referred to as a convenience opening in brochures from German automobile manufacturers . Another advantage is that a pop-top roof can also be used when it rains because the roof is still on. It is also a practical matter that the pop-up roof is fixed at the front and only lifted at the rear, because the rain cannot be blown into the interior by the wind. It also offers better protection from the sun because the sunroof is tinted dark, or the sunroof - especially in older cars - is made entirely of steel. However, older pop-up roofs in particular increase the interior noise significantly when they are open.

The pop-top roof is often referred to colloquially as a smoker's hatch .

There are often several pop-up roofs in one omnibus .

Pop-top roofs through the ages

While lifting roofs were initially just a pane of glass that could be lifted at the rear, they have occasionally been integrated into normal steel sliding roofs since the 1980s, but they often appeared individually until the 1990s. Today mostly only small or cheap cars have single pop-up roofs without a sunroof function. The lifting roof was one of two opening options. For example, if you cranked it in one direction, the roof was pushed back. If you crank in the other direction, the roof was raised at the back. Modern pop-up roofs are operated electrically, are integrated into tinted glass sliding roofs and are one of two or more opening options.

literature

• Hans-Hermann Braess, Ulrich Seiffert: Vieweg manual automotive technology. 2nd edition, Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 2001, ISBN 3-528-13114-4