AnitaS

I have been meaning to reply for a while to thank ZMANALEX. It was indeed that the lock switch had somehow been pressed in. I am embarrassed and feel like a total numpty - but am also very relieved! Now to fix the motor.

Hi. I think I have the dreaded failure of the fifth bow motor - despite the roof being closed, the light saying it's open is on. If I press the button to either open or close I have the windows open, then nothing else happens save for a quiet clicking noise. Also, it had been a bit reluctant to open and close that last bit for a while. The beginning of this issue pre-dates the cold weather, so I am fairly sure it's not related. I asked Japex and Cougarstore whether they would do the motor for me, but they both said they don't do them. Does anyone have any idea where might, please? The roof is in a state and I am hoping to get it booked in for replacement in January, but assume that the motor will need to be working in order for them to do that. Thanks in advance

Thanks. I'm clearly not very observant! I will take a look at that tomorrow. *crosses fingers*

Percussive maintenance didn't work. I didn't know there was a lock button for the passenger window. Can you tell me where I would find it please so I can check that? Thanks for the reassurance re the opposite way thing. As for the 5th bow, I worry that it might be, but am hoping that a good greasing will sort it. Thanks again.

I'll give it a go. Thanks. I quite enjoy percussive maintenance.

Thanks, but unfortunately as it doesn't close I fail at step one.

Hi. I have a 2005 Roadster. Apologies for the length of this but I want to make sure I explain it properly. Ever since I have had it, sometimes when dropping the roof it stops when two thirds of the way through. Dealing with this has generally been easy enough - close the roof a bit and then try to reopen it and it generally works. That doesn't bother me and I only mention it as background. The problem is that recently there has been an intermittent issue with the release / recatch at the bottom of the rear window (i.e. the very last thing that happens when it closes). Sometimes the roof won't open, and sometimes it won't recatch when it closes - in either case the "roof open" warning light will stay on, and I will try the roof here and there for a couple of days, until eventually it will work, at which point I will close it. I assumed the mechanism required greasing or something like that and figured I would sort it when I get a new roof fitted (i.e. as soon as I can find someone to fit it who has space in his diary that coincides with mine). However, a few times when I have been doing this, I have been pressing the switch to open and it has been closing, or vice versa. I am not mistaken about which bit of the switch I am pressing - and the roof is going the wrong way! This only happens when I pause in the opening or closing due to it sticking (as per the above two paragraphs). It's a bit alarming, but again a bit of shifting it back and forth seems to fix it. TODAY'S PROBLEM is a much bigger one. On opening the roof (which of itself was ok today) the windows went down as usual, but now the passenger side window won't come back up. I have tried using the switch on the driver's door and also the switch on the passenger door. I have tried it with the roof open and I have tried it with the roof closed, but to no avail. As I haven't previously had any problems with that window whatsoever, and as it opened perfectly fine (and automatically) when I opened the roof this morning, I am wondering if this is another symptom of my car getting confused about where its roof is / should be. Needless to say, having a window stuck permanently open is a PITA. Does anyone have any ideas on any kind of reset procedure, or what might be wrong more generally please?