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[dashers]

Hi everyone, as a new owner of a 1995 R129 SL280, thought it was worthwhile joining the forum.

No sure where to post my issues with roof.

Having taken delivery of the vehicle a few weeks ago, and yesterday (good friday) being such a great day, a top down ride was calling.

First we removed the hard top, with no problem, safely stored onto its holder, we raised the folding roof, again with no issues, locking into place etc.

as we are about to set off for the coast, lowered the folding roof, locked into position, all good. However....

Went to fit the draught guard and need to raise the rollover bar, which is when I noticed that both the red lights on the switch are constantly on, as is the roof button.

The roof nor the roll over bar will not operate, Have trickle charged the battery with the battery condition, tried with the engine running and not running. Have reset windows, have applied the footbrake, pretty much everything that I read about on the forums. But the roof remains stubbornly down, with roll over in the down position and the red lights constantly on on both the roof switch and roll over switch.

Is there a knack that I'm missing

Regards Neil

 

[Blobcat]

Hello and welcome,

Moved it here for you

 

[Dean Fletcher]

Hello and welcome

 

[dry run]

Welcome

 

[SmartAmg]

Welcome.

 

[dashers]

Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone. Now to get the roof sorted

 

[dashers]

So update on the R129 1995 roof saga, have managed to close the folding roof manually, and have locked it in position. I guess I can lower it by reversing the process. Have checked the hydraulic oil reservoir, all good. Battery full NOCO Genius take care of this. The roof and rollover switches permanently lit red and neither functions. Any clues, pointers, would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Neil

 

[davidwilson]

Hi Neil:
Welcome to the frustrating wonderland that is ownership of a Merc soft top! Waaaay too complicated for common sense - but wonderful when it all works. (As Michael Caine said in an interview " It's a wonderful thing - if it starts to rain when I'm out in it, I push this button and the rain stops" ....) You need to find a decent indy mercedes garage who can use the dealership code reader to pull the error codes. (Dealer will charge you big bucks - unless you just bought it from them.) The decode of that should tell you which of the many microswitches to start looking at - but without the codes you're stumbling about in the dark. (If you haven't got a local friendly indy like I have, you can find a scanner that will read the codes for ~£100 or so (iCarsoft, I think. Shout if you need details & I'll go & look. Where are you?
Cheers
David

 

[worldbiker]

Ah, I see you have exactly the same problem as mine. Let me know how you get on. Mine's a 1997 R129.