How do I manually close a 993 roof?

[Mario149]

Typically, the roof on my 993 cab started playing silly buggers yesterday (see here: http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=832997&... after not being used in a while. However, trying it today, after a slight false start, it now seems to work. I've cycled it back and forth about 8 or so times with no probs. Hopefully it was just a grouchy microswitch or something that has now righted itself.

BUT, in case it suddenly does decide to play silly buggers again, can someone tell me how to manually close the roof? Apparently its in the owners manual but I can't seem to find it anywhere (think I may have a Carrera manual as opposed to a Cabriolet one if that's possible)

[hot66]

mine failed halfway open in the depths of France . If you look where the hinge covers are on the b pillers, take off the cover & behind there is a bolt ( 17 or 19m from memory) . Loosen the bolt on each side , do not remove ! , and you can then operate the roof manually

[Mario149]

Ta! How do you get the rotating bolts to lock at the front to keep the roof down?

[hot66]

on mine, those kept working fine so it was just a matter of using the button to lock down or unlock the front and then get out of the car to manually fold the roof back / up etc

If the front locks fail I'm sure there must be a way to manually activate them

[R2D3]

These tops can be a real pain. A lot of owners leave them on manual operation to preserve the mechanical bits. There is a saying that suggests that every time you open a 993 cab roof, you should put £10 to one side!

Micro switch setup is critical. There are three main ones- two on the top of the windscreen frame( these allow your two latching motors to lock the hood down.)There is a travel limiter behind the trim cover on the drivers side. This stops the hood travel on the way down. You should be able to activate the latching motors in manual mode simply by closing the roof to screen frame and operating the roof switch.

Al this is controlled by an ECU buried high up in the near side footwell. This has its own problems. ( usually on the soldered joints).

There is loads of info on the various forums, so you should be able to do some homework on these sites.

Good luck.

[hornbaek]

The only issue i have with closing the roof is that when reaching the last 1/3 it simply slams down and hits the top edge of the windscreen quite hard. I normally stick a hand up just to feather the fall a bit to avoid a big slam.

[R2D3]

I have a similar issue; I think a lot of these tops have been recovered over the years or perhaps had a new rear screen fitted with a result that the tension is never quite 'factory'. This causes the top to 'snap' into position. But 'Hey Fellas' we've got some old cars here now.