I bought that mag last year in Manchester Airport for that article, something to read whilst lying round the pool in my LYCRA swimming trunks............I have photo's????!!Yes, that's right. They can get noisy, but it's not anything that causes any further issues really.
The roof system is a bit complex, but it's logical once you work it out. can you describe the symptoms? Do you get any reaction to the button at all? (must have handbrake on, and be on reasonably flat ground) If you hear the whirring of the pump, what part of the sequence does it stop at? Does it stop at the same place going down and up?
The scuttle shake goes with the early ones I'm afraid. It was addressed in the 2003MY and onwards by a series of chassis stiffening measures - (I think this mostly consisted of filling some of the box sections in the chassis, including the screen surround with some sort of expanding structural foam..)
Once you get them going right they are great fun and getting increasingly rare - here's mine featured from last year
https://www.magzter.com/preview/1165/238203
Ok Thanks Andy , here goes .Yes, that's right. They can get noisy, but it's not anything that causes any further issues really.
The roof system is a bit complex, but it's logical once you work it out. can you describe the symptoms? Do you get any reaction to the button at all? (must have handbrake on, and be on reasonably flat ground) If you hear the whirring of the pump, what part of the sequence does it stop at? Does it stop at the same place going down and up?
The scuttle shake goes with the early ones I'm afraid. It was addressed in the 2003MY and onwards by a series of chassis stiffening measures - (I think this mostly consisted of filling some of the box sections in the chassis, including the screen surround with some sort of expanding structural foam..)
Once you get them going right they are great fun and getting increasingly rare - here's mine featured from last year
https://www.magzter.com/preview/1165/238203
Very nice.My pride and joy.
Thanks Nibby , I will give that a try .Mike, when I had a problem with the roof recently I cleaned the 4 fuses up in the battery compartment which have seemed to do the trick, going through the receipts this had been a problem area for my car in the past.
Mine is a manual 2003 car and apart from this little glitch and a few moments of paranoia which turned out to be nothing the car has been great, already clocking up 2500 miles since I bought it in March.
My pride and joy.
Thanks Andy I will give it a go , I tried to convince myself that as long as it was down that would be ok , but there are bound to be times when I get caught by the weather and a working top would be handy .By the sounds of it the roof just needs cycling a few times. If its been in storage for a while it may be that either a microswitch or the hydraulics are a bit sticky. It seems that the fundamentals are all there. Keep using it.