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Great outcome! And cheaper than my remove and replace....
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When it happened to me, I was driving and thinking of my late Dad who bought a '74 911 Targa (that we still have) and showed me the wonders of Porsche. I gave a bit of a "nod" to him in his memory and very soon after, the windows started moving......Until It became more persistent, I enjoyed thinking that Dad was lowering the windows for me as a sign of his awareness of my thoughts. Then my mechanic set me straight..... Best to you, from California. We loved Germany, floating the Danube from Vienna to Nuremberg at Chistmas time.
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The problem is the switch where the top latches to the head rail (where the top's hook drops into the depression and latched). Mine did exactly the same thing and I replaced the switch and it was immediately fixed. When the car is moving, the slight movement of the top causes the switch to think that the top is being put down.
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97 boxster, 5 speed, 2.5, 37,000 miles Four times now in the past two years, on longer drives, the windows on both sides drop without prompting, to different levels, to and below the automatic drop point, eventually all the way down. I first thought it was my late father, prior Porsche owner, playing a trick, but I'm beginning to think it might actually be electrical..... They'll go back up when I use the switch, but then they start down again, sometimes almost immediately, other times after a few seconds or minutes. If one side starts, I can expect the other side to start. They'll drop some distance, not always exactly the same, then they'll drop again, then all the way, sometimes they drop and stay for a while. They never go back up on their own. First time it was after 20 minutes of driving, second time it was 2-3 hours into the drive, third time 3 hours into the drive. Spent the last hour sending them back up only to have them start down again. I've read the post from 2005 about window action http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...lectric+windows and wonder if my problem is related. This has never happened while the car is parked, only driving. http://www.renntech.org/forums/style_emoti...t/renntech1.gif
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Intermittent Top Problem
Srseaman replied to Srseaman's topic in 986 Boxster Convertible Top Issues and Solutions
it's a 97, sorry. I'll take a look at that posting again, thanks. Would that explain it working some times and not others? I was almost hoping for an electrical connection that had a history of intermittent interruption that someone could point me to since it seems to work so flawlessley one time and hangs up another. -
Intermittent Top Problem
Srseaman posted a topic in 986 Boxster Convertible Top Issues and Solutions
I've read the forum entries for boxster top problems and saw the photo log of Tool Pants for how to check the cable length, etc. My clam shell does what I believe others do in one side coming up at a different rate than the other and the top torquing some. The cables are the appropriate length per my mechanic. The problem is, when I gave it to him to evaluate, the top worked perfectly for him a number of times. As soon as I get it back, it starts to bind again. Then it works for me perfectly. Now it's binding....My mechanic suggested I ask you all if there is a micro switch or some other likely failure point that you can suggest so we can try to debug the intermittent nature of this. Can you point me to a specific place in the system to begin? Thanks very much Scott Seaman