Upon stopping and applying the parking brake i discovered that the roof will not open at all.
Porsche boxster roof not opening.
When your roof is not opening or closing correctly then one or more of the components in the mechanism are probably worn out or damaged.
For someone that has never troubleshot a roof system before this can be difficult.
This causes the top to.
Do not try and open close the convertible top using the switch once you have disconnected the rods.
Both windows go down a quarter on roof retraction which is normal but then keep going into totally open position then won t go back up.
Porsche boxster soft tops from 1997 2012 have a couple of failure points.
Follow the photo array in this article to learn about each of these components and how to replace them.
If roof is closed and opened a few times sometimes.
One is when an elastic strip on each side loses its stretch.
A 1998 porsche boxster came in to the shop today with the problem that the motorized roof did not move.
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I doubt the roof switch has any influence over this other than telling the brain the roof is being opened.
The early style convertible top transmissions have been replaced with a more reliable later style one.