Top Troubles

The top on this car has never worked perfectly for me - it always needs some babying to get it to go up or down. At the least, this puts a lot of stress on the rear window. The rear glass was broken out when I bought it because it wasn't closing right and was bending the glass. I tried putting some Lexan in there figuring that was bendable, but I was in a rush one day and when I put the top down it bent the Lexan right in half and cracked it.

Anyway, last weekend, the top got hung up half-way down. Found some time to look at it today and the problem had gotten worse - it wasn't moving hardly at all.

I took a look at the mechanism (after taking out the back seat again) and found that one of the cables that pulls the gears to move the top had broken. You can see the end that fits into the motor has broken off:



This isn't an expensive part - $35. It should be here next week.

So, hopefully this will get the top working again. I'm a bit concerned that there is some binding in the mechanism that led to the torque twisting off the end, but I'll have to wait to get everything back together to investigate.