I’m looking for technical help or recommendations on:
This morning i opened my hardtop roof just to air the car and wipe the seals. I opened and paused it half way to do this. All was fine until i tried to close the roof and it’s now stuck at 95%. The tail section is also remaining raised and pressing the buttons does nothing. There’s nothing obstructing the way for it not to close.
Anybody have any ideas of how i could ‘reset’ the electrics or is there a manual way to get the mechanism to operate so it seats correctly.
If this would need a mechanic to look at any suggestions of a good one around North London. I’d rather not go to Mazda for obvious reasons.
You didn’t say if this was the first time you stopped your roof halfway through its opening sequence.
Your post suggests you tried to close it straight after you had partly opened it, when in fact the correct process is:
open the roof halfway, switch ignition off, clean seals, switch ignition on, open the roof fully, then close the roof fully.
Just had the engine running. Open roof halfway, stopped. Wiped seals and then close the roof.
The one thing I may add is that as the roof was closing I tried to close the latch in a moment of confusion and then quickly opened it again. I can’t remember if my latch closing event occurred just as the roof was about the latch shut and that’s what’s now thrown things off? I wonder if that could have caused any issues?
It’s difficult to say if your attempt to close the latch prior to the roof being closed could have confused the mechanism, but it could have.
What I am surprised by is that you were able to go from half opened to closed (even just 95% closed) without having first brought the roof down to its fully opened position.
The “process” I mentioned to you is something I have no control over, my car will simply not let me go from half opened to fully closed, and it won’t let me go from half closed to fully opened.
I have to complete the interrupted sequence in full before being able to do the reverse sequence.
And that’s fine with me as it’s worked perfectly during all my cleaning sessions.
Do you still have the kit for a manual roof closure? It could be in your glove box.
I had a similar issue on mine took my finger off the button to catch my phone which was slipping from my pocket. I found that the battery needed recharging, to clarify after the engine had been running for a few minutes (5) it just went back to working as normal it was a worry for a time as the button in both directions was unresponsive