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Roof mechanism broke, advice needed!
RJ2013 replied to RJ2013's topic in 987-1 Series (Boxster, Boxster S)
Thanks Maurice, I'll check the switch out and see if the motor drives from a 12v feed. I presume it won't make much difference to the roof opening/losing alignment if I drive the arms around roughly 1 complete revolution? -
Roof mechanism broke, advice needed!
RJ2013 replied to RJ2013's topic in 987-1 Series (Boxster, Boxster S)
I think the 987 might be a bit different to the 986, I have read that they moved the alarm ecu from under the seat and that the rear control unit sits there now. I have bought a new rear control unit. I was told that no extra coding would be required on this unit and it was plug and play. The windows do lower when the doors are opened. As I have to manually push back roof so that the new joints can be re-attached under the clam-shell I can't say if the windows would lower on releasing the roof latch with the roof levers all hooked up. I have tried releasing it with both pairs of ball joints disconnected and nothing happens, the windows don't drop and the rear motor does not run when pressing the button. Although the motor did run run seemingling at random before I disconnected the battery and installing the new rear control unit. As nothing else had changed I presume that the motor and mechanism should be fine? I did check all the fuses and they are fine, also removed and reinstalled the relays in the boot. The boot now opens fine since putting the new control unit in, it wouldn't open at all previously, with the door side button or the fob. There only appears to be one switch in the front roof release, I'm not sure if the 986 is the same, the roof can be lowered up to 30mph or so on the 987. Looks like I may need to get a couple of working relays to double check there's no issues with these. -
Roof mechanism broke, advice needed!
RJ2013 replied to RJ2013's topic in 987-1 Series (Boxster, Boxster S)
Ok, having reconnected the battery and manually half put the roof down, the roof motor under the clamshell decided to run, the roof and clamshell arms on both sides were already disconnected so no harm was done, both sides seems to turn fine and look to be aligned the same. I disconnected the battery and checked the rear control unit under the passenger seat (UK car), looks like moisture had got into it, with corrosion over the circuit board. I've now got a new control unit and with the roof manually put half down reconnected the white plastic ball joints and the metal ones attached to the clam shell. With the battery reconnected the roof does not move, the motor does not turn when the button is pressed. I've checked all the fuses and they look fine, the rear spoiler is still up and does not go down with the button, although the rear spoiler error has now gone from the dash display since replacing the rear control unit. Any advice on what to check next would be appreciated. Thanks. -
The roof mechanism recently broke on my 2007 Boxster, the white plastic connectors that fit onto the roof ball joints snapped. I have 2 new arms with plastic cups ready to fit. The roof is broke in the closed position and the roof down button has no effect. Having read through the various threads on here I have popped the metal ball joints off the other side of the mechanism and can now open the clamshell manually. Having read that care should be taken not to misalign the mechanism, I am looking for advice on the procedure to change the new ball cups. The mechanism will need rotating in order to get the new cups to join to the ball joint and obviously with the clamshell opened manually the metal cups will no longer reach the other end ball joint. Hopefully once I get this fixed I can look into why the spoiler decided to fully extend and not retract with the dash button! Thanks.