I've had my 1990 964 C2 cabriolet since June 2008, and I joined 911UK before that, but I'm sorry to say I've been a very infrequent visitor to the site. Now I'm back – begging for some advice please.
The electric hood has worked perfectly every time until this weekend, when it jammed part way up and would not move up or down. I found that the vertical casting at the rear of the offside window had broken, and that one part of the casting was overlapping the other, and the steel (?) window guide was severely distorted. A friend helped me to manually put up the hood to make the car watertight, by removing the steel window guide and the operating levers at the rear sides, realigning the cast pieces and by manually operating the locking mechanism at the front.
I have no idea if this breakage is the cause of the failure, or the effect of a failure elsewhere in the mechanism. I guess this must have happened to other vehicles, though I can't find anything on the internet.
Any ideas? Do you know if anybody had this failure before? Who might be able to repair it? I'm resigned to travel far if necessary.
Any advice will be gratefully received.
The electric hood has worked perfectly every time until this weekend, when it jammed part way up and would not move up or down. I found that the vertical casting at the rear of the offside window had broken, and that one part of the casting was overlapping the other, and the steel (?) window guide was severely distorted. A friend helped me to manually put up the hood to make the car watertight, by removing the steel window guide and the operating levers at the rear sides, realigning the cast pieces and by manually operating the locking mechanism at the front.
I have no idea if this breakage is the cause of the failure, or the effect of a failure elsewhere in the mechanism. I guess this must have happened to other vehicles, though I can't find anything on the internet.
Any ideas? Do you know if anybody had this failure before? Who might be able to repair it? I'm resigned to travel far if necessary.
Any advice will be gratefully received.
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