graham.hassall
Monza
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- 29 May 2009
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Out in the sunshine yesterday and opened the sunroof, all was well in the world until I come to close it!
I had to close it as I was going to drive on a motorway (I find the buffeting unpleasant)so I pushed the close button to shut it and it started to close but with about 50mm to go it stopped and started to re open (I took my finger off the switch when this started to happen). I then tried to close it again and had the same issue, after about four attempts I applied some gentle pressure to help close it and it shut.
This evening I opened it again and applied a drop of GT85 (penetrating oil with PTFE) to the spring/cable and runners, I then closed it with no problem. I then reopened it and closed it a couple of times and all was well, however on the fourth attempt it repeated the aforementioned problem.
However this time it seemed to not want to close all, it would however move back wards and after about 5 attempts I eventually got it to close. Interestingly applying some gentle pressure to close it didn't work at all.
I am starting to think that maybe the switch is faulty as the mechanism operates smoothly with no juddering.
Any ideas comments?
cheers
Graham
I had to close it as I was going to drive on a motorway (I find the buffeting unpleasant)so I pushed the close button to shut it and it started to close but with about 50mm to go it stopped and started to re open (I took my finger off the switch when this started to happen). I then tried to close it again and had the same issue, after about four attempts I applied some gentle pressure to help close it and it shut.
This evening I opened it again and applied a drop of GT85 (penetrating oil with PTFE) to the spring/cable and runners, I then closed it with no problem. I then reopened it and closed it a couple of times and all was well, however on the fourth attempt it repeated the aforementioned problem.
However this time it seemed to not want to close all, it would however move back wards and after about 5 attempts I eventually got it to close. Interestingly applying some gentle pressure to close it didn't work at all.
I am starting to think that maybe the switch is faulty as the mechanism operates smoothly with no juddering.
Any ideas comments?
cheers
Graham
