I had my hood jam halfway down recently - having a poke around, I retrieved a large piece of hard foam from between the hood and the lining. This turned out to be a broken piece off the "cross member lock cover" #66729700 (see Eurospares diagram). I suspect this foam jammed between the bars...
OK, so there's a certain inevitability to this; 1st nice (weekend, South of England) day of 2017 and I try to lower the hood (as in soft top) on the Spyder and it stops quite early in the cycle.
Windows drop, pins on the rear of the hood unwind and then it just stops. Won't go back either. To...