What was happening is, as the top was opening, all of a sudden it would get a signal that the latch switch was closed and it would shut the whole system down. Obviously they want to know when the trunk's open, because everything has to follow a certain sequence. With these tops, there's a number of switches for different things. The latch of course is at the front of the convertible top where there's to actuators that lock the top. Found a trouble code stored for a latch switch, so I figured that's a good place to start. Mark: How did you go about diagnosing what looks like a pretty complex mechanism and set of actions?īernie: Critical to diagnose in these vehicles is a good quality scan tool that will read all the data and information in the vehicle computer. At that point you really have to figure out what's going wrong, and fix it. Mark: You suddenly have a big air dam on the back of your car.īernie: Yeah, and it's un-drivable. When I was opening the roof, it would actually get to about this point here and then jammed up, and it would stop working. Now when the roof, in our diagnostic procedure what I found was, the roof, I'm just going to backtrack the video here. You just hold a switch and then it does its whole operation. The trunk closes and hides the roof, and the windows go back up. This little piece comes up, goes back down. What I'll do is actually, I've got a nice video here of the actual roof in operation so you can just kind of have a look at that really quickly. ![]() Key, you have a convertible, make sure you have the owner's manual in the glove box or somewhere accessible so you can actually do this. There are levers you can pull and things that'll actuate things to allow you to actually manually just lift the roof closed and latch it in place. They think of all the things you need to do to make sure you can close the roof, even if the trunk's fully closed. It's actually fairly simple once you get the procedure figured out. It's a little complex, but once, I actually had to do it a few times myself while in the process of repairing it. There is in the owner's manual a procedure, and almost all convertible vehicles have a procedure to close the roof when it jams up. It's one of those things where you need to go, "Oh, what do I do now?". Mark: What do you do when the roof gets stuck part way open?īernie: This is a good time to have your owner's manual of your vehicle in the car, because it's a kind of thing where you probably never pre-study it. It had basically jammed up and wouldn't open or close. But the roof stopped working part way through the process. What was going on with this vehicle?īernie: The owner of the vehicle went to put his roof down, or moved it up. ![]() We're here with Bernie Pawlik, Pawlik Automotive in Vancouver, for the Pawlik Automotive Podcast.
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