Roof gone skew-whiff

Wow, that was indeed a lucky escape - now go and buy a Lottery ticket! :lol:
 
well done... hope the neighbours were impressed with your victory dance! :crazydude:
 
So....I'm guessing every roof down operation will now be:
1. Finger hovers over button
2. Get out, open boot
3. Check all is clear
4. repeat steps 3
5. repeat step 4
6. repeat step 5
7. hide while someone else presses the button
 
I will certainly be checking my boot carefully before raising or lowering the roof. Glad it worked out alright in the end. You will never be so lucky again. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
Faaarking Hell !! Feeling your pain . And some. So much so, if it happened to me after reading this discussion, I'd have a self induced heart attack.
 
Fantastic News!!! I felt some pain reading through this but what a great result. Really pleased for you as it looked like it would cost quite a bit to fix....and what strong design if it all went back nice and smooth. :thumbsup:
 
Freddie - Have you picked some numbers for the lottery? The way your luck was running after that fix, it might be worth a punt!
 
FreddieKuga said:
Finally managed to have a go at the roof this afternoon with the help of my long-suffering neighbour. We did as Flybobbie suggested and eased the roof panels up, propping it up with a length of timber placed between the boot floor and the underside of the cockpit roof. With the roof roughly level, I tentatively pressed the roof close button and the hydraulics whirred into action. Halted the operation after a moment so that we could remove the tyre inflator which had caused the jam, and then checked that everything on the roof gubbins was in roughly the right position, which it was.

So we carried on closing the roof and to my surprise it closed perfectly. Tried it again all the way down and back up again and it works fine! Have to say that I'm completely astonished by this - I was expecting to have to trailer the car away to somewhere very expensive to get it fixed, but it seems to be absolutely perfect - we can't see anything out of line or not as it should be. As a precaution, for the next week I'll only be dropping the roof when the car's at home or somewhere else convenient to leave it should the operation fail, but at the moment the omens look good.

Thanks to all for the suggestions and sympathy - it was very helpful. I'm now going to the pub and I may be gone some time!

Freddie
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Most excellent !
 
A salutary lesson for all of us: Check the boot before operating the roof!

Freddie so pleased you got this sorted dude. That would have been quite a bill.... :o
 
It's a pity that there aren't some kind of proximity sensor to warn of objects in those two areas when the roof operates.
I crushed and empty box once.
There are ultrasonic kits that could be fitted and perhaps tuned short range to warn of objects.
I fitted two extra lights in those areas to illuminate the boot.
Should help to stop me leaving anything in those areas.
Perhaps these could be adapted;
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Parking-Rear-Reversing-Sensors-4-Sensors-Kit-Buzzer-WILLKEY-Audio-Alarm/163719880379?hash=item261e771ebb:g:8~MAAOSw84ZcGGFS
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Car-Rear-Reverse-4-Parking-Sensors-Reversing-Audio-Buzzer-Alarm-Kit-LCD-Display/392383705902?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Wire the positive to the pump motor.
 
Thanks for all the comments - just to finish this thread off, the roof has behaved itself perfectly for the last ten days so and shows no signs of any issues as a result of the mishap. As one poster suggested, I am checking and then double-checking that there's nothing in the danger area before dropping or raising the roof and I'm also making a point of never leaving anything in those areas, even for a minute or two. Having got away with it once, I don't think I can rely on the same thing if I manage to do it again!

Freddie
 
We had an incident with a 4 pint bottle of milk took us months to get rid of the smell. Has made is more wary now. Hope you get it sorted.
 
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