Top in CLOSED position. Motor working. Help?

[iatros]

Hey everyone,

My convertible top is stuck in the up position. The motor runs when I hit the button, the clamshell comes up etc... but the top itself doesn't move.

The top is disengaged from the latch above and the windows come down. And it can be moved manually.

Where should I look first? Is it that both cables snapped??! Or both plastic pieces broke?

My dad took it out for one day, gave it back with a broken top and a flat tire hehe... I hope he at least had fun in it ;)

Thanks for your anticipated guidance

[1schoir]

Hey everyone,

My convertible top is stuck in the up position. The motor runs when I hit the button, the clamshell comes up etc... but the top itself doesn't move.

The top is disengaged from the latch above and the windows come down. And it can be moved manually.

Where should I look first? Is it that both cables snapped??! Or both plastic pieces broke?

My dad took it out for one day, gave it back with a broken top and a flat tire hehe... I hope he at least had fun in it ;)

Thanks for your anticipated guidance

Iatros:

Since the clamshell is coming up, it is not the cables. When the motor runs, it spins the cables, which drive the transmissions, which rotate the V-levers, which in turn operate the clamshell from one end of the V-levers and the convertible top from the other end of the V-levers.

I am pretty sure that your white (or red if early Boxster and never replaced) plastic cups, which are pressed onto a metal ball at the base of the B-Pillars, have either popped off, or have broken apart. Your top is no longer connected to the V-levers, which is why you are able to operate it manually.

If it is your white plastic cups, there is a guy in Belgium who has reproduced the cups, otherwise Porsche only sells the complete connecting pushrod assembly. If you need his information, PM me and I'll give you the details.

Regards, Maurice.