UPDATE: A few hours after posting this, I went out and messed with several things. First, I tried to get the top to come down with the key in the door, but that was also non-functional. Next, I pulled the ashtray and button assembly out and made sure that the button didn't magically become unplugged. It had not. Then, I wanted to get a glimpse at the wiring to the pump, so I could make sure that it hadn't become pinched or something after putting the top back on when I changed the motor. I manually lowered the top (allen wrench and top hydraulic disengagement cable) and took a good look at the wires. They were all fine.
Once the top was down, I wondered if it would operate automatically if I reengaged the motor. I put the release lever back into place, hit the button and the top moves! It was a bit of a relief to find that the top was still functional after all the work I put in recently to replace that motor. Unfortunately, once the top was all the way back up, it returned to its same state; buttons did nothing, not even lighting up the lights.
I manually lowered it once again, and this time I stopped before it got all the way down. I reengaged the motor and tried using the button to drop the top all the way. That worked, except the latch didn't latch on its own and needed me to push it down. I did this and then raised the top automatically, all the way till it was about to latch, then lowered it all the way again. I did this several times and it always worked, but the latch when the top is down never latched on its own.
Finally, I put the top all the way back up and tried to put it down on its own. IT WORKED! Whatever is going on must have "reset" after all the manual movement. I think its out of calibration slightly, perhaps. The only explanation for that is the fact that I recently recoded all modules in the car using Progman and have had a couple weird issues since. I think there might be a slight version mismatch with some of the software that it coded and perhaps it coded the convertible top module somehow wrongly. When I coded everything the first time, my headlights were flickering and I had to recode the light module again to get that to stop. Maybe the same type of situation is going on with the convertible top module.
Anyway, when I was done with all of this, I connected the laptop and checked the module with INPA. It shows the following code:
1 errors in error memory!
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64 Drive catch hook: Current too high when unlocked
Error frequency: 2
Outside temperature - 128.00 degrees C
sporadic error
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Not sure what to make of that. During the paint job, I noticed that both the ambient air temp and outside air temp sensors had wires that had the coating scraped off. I wanted to fix them and ordered the wrong connectors, but had already cut the wiring to the old sensors. Currently the sensors are not installed and I wonder if the error, along with the fact that the top isn't latching, are associated to that? It certainly isn't 128.00 degrees C here, though this is Phoenix!
Anyway, I'm glad to see that the top is working again right now. Maybe I'll try to recode the CVM tonight and see if that makes any difference in it latching correctly. What a weird issue...
