I can't believe I've only had my lovely SL for a couple of weeks and I've managed to break it already :(
I had the all too common water leaking into the boot, as most members will know there is a most excellent write up on this from Television so armed with this info I set about the job. I opened the roof part way and wedged it as per the write up whilst examining the seals. When I wanted to close the roof I eased it back manually to around the balance point, removed the wedge then powered it up to close, this is where it went horribly wrong, there was a loud crack followed by a piece of plastic flying past my head. There are two plastic pins sticking out of the roof that locate in the top of the windsceen, the drivers side one had snapped off. I have no idea why but I can only assume that when easing the roof back I was perhaps applying pressure more biased towards the drivers side and maybe this left the roof slightly out of square so the pin didn't locate in it's receptacle. So the moral here is: if you do this MAKE SURE YOU TAKE THE ROOF ALL THE WAY BACKWARDS FIRST into the boot before closing, because from here on it doesn't get much better.
After crying into my beer I though oh well not too bad it's only a plastic pin, wrong again, a visit to the stealers tells me that I have to buy the entire mechanism as the pins do not come out seperately £300 all in for the bits so an expensive mistake !
So now I have to tackle the job of replacing this machanism, has anyone done this before?
Also I have assumed the reason for the break was my fault, has this happened to anyone else? or is there another known cause for this as I would hate for it to happen again.
I had the all too common water leaking into the boot, as most members will know there is a most excellent write up on this from Television so armed with this info I set about the job. I opened the roof part way and wedged it as per the write up whilst examining the seals. When I wanted to close the roof I eased it back manually to around the balance point, removed the wedge then powered it up to close, this is where it went horribly wrong, there was a loud crack followed by a piece of plastic flying past my head. There are two plastic pins sticking out of the roof that locate in the top of the windsceen, the drivers side one had snapped off. I have no idea why but I can only assume that when easing the roof back I was perhaps applying pressure more biased towards the drivers side and maybe this left the roof slightly out of square so the pin didn't locate in it's receptacle. So the moral here is: if you do this MAKE SURE YOU TAKE THE ROOF ALL THE WAY BACKWARDS FIRST into the boot before closing, because from here on it doesn't get much better.
After crying into my beer I though oh well not too bad it's only a plastic pin, wrong again, a visit to the stealers tells me that I have to buy the entire mechanism as the pins do not come out seperately £300 all in for the bits so an expensive mistake !
So now I have to tackle the job of replacing this machanism, has anyone done this before?
Also I have assumed the reason for the break was my fault, has this happened to anyone else? or is there another known cause for this as I would hate for it to happen again.