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Post Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:17 pm

After a bit of help with getting the auto roof on the e30 cab sorted, when I bought the car the roof motor was missing, I've never bothered looking in to it until yesterday... have taken loads of photo's of bits that are missing/faulty hoping that you guys can offer a bit of assistance....

So the motor has been removed as below:

Under Roof Cover
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Unplugged Wiring (Inside Boot)
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There is a snapped cable which looks to be to close the boot
(passengers side of the boot)

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The mechanism to lift and lock the roof cover looks to be faulty and the cables to lock it down have a great amount of slack in them.

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Also on the roof cover there appears to be another cable missing on the left in the pic below

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Any advice welcome... Cheers,

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Post Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:17 pm

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Post Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:13 am

Send a PM to DaveD he has sorted this type of problem many time, or do a search for all posts by DaveD and find the answer yourself- may take some trawling though!
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Post Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:42 am

DaveD did a great job of uploading Cabriolet documents to the Wiki. This selection of articles is his work:

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... :Cabriolet

"Resetting The Electric Roof" gives you the BMW technical article, and lists all components and the fitting procedure.
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Post Tue Feb 07, 2012 8:34 am

i always felt that electric roofs were as much for the pose value as anything else.
convert it to a manual and be done with it. it takes only seconds to raise and lower it manually.
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Post Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:38 am

adit wrote:i always felt that electric roofs were as much for the pose value as anything else.
convert it to a manual and be done with it. it takes only seconds to raise and lower it manually.
:D Yeah, but what a pose it is, Adi! :cool:
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Post Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:57 am

Gert_8 wrote:
adit wrote:i always felt that electric roofs were as much for the pose value as anything else.
convert it to a manual and be done with it. it takes only seconds to raise and lower it manually.
:D Yeah, but what a pose it is, Adi! :cool:
I'm not so sure. First I have to raise the front by hand. Then I have to push the button, whilst "helping" the front raise higher by hand, to ease the strain on the delicate motor. Then a couple of seconds later I have to stop, get out, to make sure the rear screen is folded properly. Then back in to complete the operation. Not so cool.


Putting it back up is a lot easier I admit, but only the SLK type hoods are cool in my opinion.
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Post Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:08 pm

Awesome thanks v much for all your help... much appreciated

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