360 Ferrari 360 Capote Cover Scraping Hinge – Adjustment Help Needed

Hey all,

Hoping someone here has dealt with this before. I'm having an issue with the capote (soft top) cover on my Ferrari 360. On the passenger side, the cover is hitting and scraping against the hinge during operation.

Photo 1 shows the hinge making contact with the cover.
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Photo 2 shows the dent/chip forming on the edge of the panel from repeated scraping.
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I removed the cover completely and checked the kinematics lift mechanism. I measured the height difference between both sides and found the passenger side is around 4mm higher, as shown in Photo 3.
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Then I looked at the shims—Photo 4 shows the passenger side had significantly more shims stacked. I removed about 4mm worth of shims hoping to level it out, but that didn’t completely solve the issue. Removing the shims changed the angle—since the assembly pivots toward the back, the front gap increased instead.
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When the top is fully open, there's still a visible center gap between the capote cover and the body, almost like it’s slightly bowed or lifted. Photo 5 shows this misalignment—it just won’t sit flush. You can see how big the gap is on that side.
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In Photo 6, I tried adjusting the screws on the back of the capote cover (the ones that mount into the hinge bracket). Loosening them, letting the cover sit freely, and then re-tightening seemed to help for one or two cycles—but by the third cycle, the scraping came back.
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Some extra context:
I’ve already installed new elastic straps, so that’s not the issue.
The hinges themselves seem fixed—they don’t appear to move or shift with the elastic tension.

Should I try adding shims again to raise the passenger side even more? Or is there another adjustment point I’m overlooking?

Thanks in advance for any guidance or tips.

 

I'll check that

 

I just took a look its pretty tight in there so I am a little uncomfortable pulling the drive shaft out without knowing the proper process of doing so. That being said, I did put in my scope in there to inspect the splines. They look to be pretty straight to me unless im missing something. Sharing photos below, lmk if something stands out @windsock.


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Yeah, I was going to experiment by adding some more shims on the passenger side and see if that helps, I'll need to order those in order to test that though. What's odd is that once it reaches the point where it hits with very little force if I just manually press down with my hand on the capote cover with very little force it slides smoothly. under the hinge. Im not sure why it won't do that on its own though..

 

Sure, I'll post this video here so its a lot more clear to others also what is going on, and they can chime in:



Thanks again.

 

I still can't seem to figure this out. Here is what I noticed so far:

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The hinge on the driver and passenger side seem to sit at almost the same height when I took measurements.

But, the passenger side will always scrape even when I removed all shims and left only 2 3 mm ones on each side.

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I really can't quite figure out why this is happening I really don't see anything that looks bent. I even inspected the brackets to which the capote cover attaches but why is the difference between both sides that significant in height?

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I just found the PPI report which I got before I bought the car and this is what the tech wrote: Top has multiple issues. Worn and misadjusted linkages that are allowing the top mechanism to scratch the clamshell assembly.
Kinematics for the rear wings are worn which is allowing the clamshell to contact and get scratched by the wing linkage.
Bushings for the rear clamshell are worn causing the shell to lift low and interfere with the wings.
Elastics to the second bow are worn out.

Im honestly not too sure where to start here and what I can fix/adjust myself based on what was written above. Any pointers would be great. My guess is I should adjust linkages but, I have no idea how or if I am even on the right track.

 

Yeah, I mean that was a PPI visual guess the tech didnt actually test for any of this. I personally dont think something major is there, I think maybe a worn component somewhere but not sure where or what. The top opens and closes perfectly without a hiccup, its just that scrape that I have to watch out for

 

Hey everyone,

I took the car to a specialist shop and wanted to post an update on what ended up fixing this. At least 90% better as of now it barely scrapes if at all. The way the issue looked like is quite deceiving, it's actually not too far up or too far down, the Capote cover was too far to the right causing it to scrape. The shop said that replacing all the bushings in the hinges would avoid some of that lateral play but it can be adjusted (Although they had no interest in doing so). I adjusted it myself which took me 5-6 hours between changing shims and adjusting the bolts on each side of the cover panel and shifted it just enough to the left which seemed to have fixed the issue. Now the other issue which the top was not sitting down completely also on the passenger side seems to be because of a missing part.

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This is not there on the passenger side, I took a peek on both side with my scope and saw this:

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Part is in good condition with the bolts and washers on the driver side but... on the passenger side:

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There are no bolts or washers or that bracket. I have been searching for the part online but can't seem to find the part number it is what this latches to:
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Which should be this part number here on Eurospares:
66691600
Under https://www.eurospares.com/Ferrari/360/360_Spider/PartDiagrams/112/Linings_and_Capote_Top_Housing?ref=002

If anyone can help me locate the brackets / bolts to get this top sitting properly that would be great. Thanks all!

 

I wouldn't even know where to start with that to get it made in the same material, I'm sure there is a P/N would be better for me to just get the OEM parts.