Sazzy Posted January 28, 2018 Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 If you have the problem of the roof not seating in the rain channel correctly, it may be beacuse the tension cable within the piping of the roof has snapped or corroded. If you have already tried replacing the elastic, of which there are numerous other threads on here on how to do, this may be your problem instead. A new cable can be had for about £20, the part number is : 986 561 921 00 Open the roof about halfway, look at the base of the B pillar and you will see the bottom eyelet of the cable. Undo the screw and if you can pull the cable then its broken inside. It's a good idea to put a cloth underneath to avoid losing any screws etc down the drain hole! To get to the top of the cable you will have to remove the front part of the roof from the frame as it is hidden inside behind the top of the window. Firstly remove the two roof latches: Then the screws along the top rail: Then the two at the corners that hold the side seal on: Pull the seal completely away from the front and the side you're working on: Under the side seal is a plastic retainer with four screws that needs to be removed, looks like this : Under that are more phillips screws with one hidden under a piece of rubber seal that you need to pull off, took me a while to figure out why I couldn't undo it with all visable screws removed! Now the fun bit, you need to carefully pull the roof back from the frame, there's a lot of adhesive but you will see underneath an aluminium plate with the top of the cable attached to a spring in shrinkwrap, which you will need to split : Undo the top eyelet from the spring and pull it through the piping, here was mine, or at least half of it .... Thread your new cable through the piping, attatch to the spring, and re wrap. I put the plastic back around it and then electrical tape to hold it. The cable comes with the other eyelet unattacthed to allow you to thread it through so you will need to crimp it on. Then it's just a case of putting everything back together! My roof now sits perfectly on that side so I hope this helps some of you with this problem if you have tried other options. It's a shame Porsche didn't make it from galvanised steel would save a lot of hassle! 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluepork03 Posted January 29, 2018 Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 Thanks for taking the time to do this @Sazzy, very nicely done! Mine's okay at the moment, but it'll be a very useful "How To" when the inevitable does eventually happen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topbox Posted January 29, 2018 Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 Thats a great " how to thread" thread thats going to be very useful for sure 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sazzy Posted January 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 Thanks, I've been meaning to do it for ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S14 Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Hi Sazzy, Excellent “how to”. I need to replace one of my tension ropes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sazzy Posted January 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Thanks ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenM Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 That's Brilliant, thank you so much 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfprorich Posted February 2, 2018 Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Just checked my cable and it's snapped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S14 Posted February 3, 2018 Report Share Posted February 3, 2018 My cable has broken, and I tried removing the cable but a small section of corroded cable was left inside the “piping”. Tried all sorts to try and get the section of broken cable out of the “piping” but it wont budge. Might have to split the “piping” to get the remainder of the cable out, but that will leave me with another problem to sort!! I guess these things are sent to try us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfprorich Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 (edited) On 03/02/2018 at 10:08 PM, S14 said: My cable has broken, and I tried removing the cable but a small section of corroded cable was left inside the “piping”. Tried all sorts to try and get the section of broken cable out of the “piping” but it wont budge. Might have to split the “piping” to get the remainder of the cable out, but that will leave me with another problem to sort!! I guess these things are sent to try us @S14This is exactly what happened to me this morning! About 3" from the bottom was blocked with rusted old cable. In the end I decided to dissect the pipe with a Stanley knife and removed the blockages. Once the new cable was in I simply glued the incision together. I made the cut on the inside of the pipe so it wasn't visible from the outside Edited February 5, 2018 by golfprorich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S14 Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 5 hours ago, golfprorich said: @S14This is exactly what happened to me this morning! About 3" from the bottom was blocked with rusted old cable. In the end I decided to dissect the pipe with a Stanley knife and removed the blockages. Once the new cable was in I simply glued the incision together. I made the cut on the inside of the pipe so it wasn't visible from the outside Hi Golfprorich, What glue did you use to repair the split “piping”? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfprorich Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 23 minutes ago, S14 said: Hi Golfprorich, What glue did you use to repair the split “piping”? Just normal Loctite superglue. It seemed to do the trick but I will re-check in a day or so. As it was at the bottom I may wrap a bit of tape round to stop any water getting in. Ideally I'd have liked to just drill out the blockage but there wasn't enough movement in the hood to get a drill lined up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S14 Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 Hi Golfprorich, Thanks, I will attempt to glue my piping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfprorich Posted February 5, 2018 Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 9 minutes ago, S14 said: Hi Golfprorich, Thanks, I will attempt to glue my piping. No worries I'm sure it will be fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfprorich Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 How it sits now, which is better than the other side! I may as well do that one as it will probably snap at some point too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonesy Posted July 30, 2018 Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 Thanks guys just joined forum as i have this exact issue...so hello & thank you ?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk1max Posted November 19, 2018 Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 Hi, @Sazzy. Just giving this a bit of a bump as I may need to tackle it this week. What adhesive did you use to put all of this back together? I saw mention of Loctite for the small bit of piping, but would that work for the whole job? Or did you get something more specialised? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sazzy Posted November 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2018 1 hour ago, mk1max said: Hi, @Sazzy. Just giving this a bit of a bump as I may need to tackle it this week. What adhesive did you use to put all of this back together? I saw mention of Loctite for the small bit of piping, but would that work for the whole job? Or did you get something more specialised? Thanks! Hiya I didn't need to use anything, there is a lot of adhesive and it's very sticky. It all just went back together fine and has been ok ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk1max Posted November 20, 2018 Report Share Posted November 20, 2018 That's great to know, thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dubdubz Posted March 20, 2019 Report Share Posted March 20, 2019 Hi is this when you pop up the roof and the hood tries to sit on the outside of the plastic outer sections? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topbox Posted March 20, 2019 Report Share Posted March 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Dubdubz said: Hi is this when you pop up the roof and the hood tries to sit on the outside of the plastic outer sections? This is when the hood fails to locate around the windows in the correct way and, as you say, sits outside the plastic folding frame. Sometimes its an elastic strap thats loose in the back of the hood and takes about 15 mins to fix if you know what your doing, thats not me by the way. Read through from the begining as Sazzy makes it very clear whats what, good luck 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glooper Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Just to say Thanks to Sazzy, spent 3 hours doing this today and now perfect, followed it step by step, brilliant. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk1max Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 It's a great guide, another thanks to @Sazzy from me too! However, I dismantled both sides (and had spare cables ready to go) only to find both my cables were fine. I considered replacing them anyway but was worried I'd make something that works no longer work! So I put it all back together and am going to replace the elasticated bands instead as I think that's the source of my problems. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glooper Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Totally understand that - my drivers side wire was pushing strands through the sleeve so I knew it was broken. I debated doing the other one too but as you say why risk making it worse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sazzy Posted June 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2019 Ah thank you, glad the tribulations with my roof can help others 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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