Seeing as how the tip-up is just a switch position, could you not disable it electrically? It seems to be just a bypass to push the roof further after the panel hits the stops. I am assuming that the tip-up mechanism must be replaced to make the roof work? I disabled the whole thing by pulling the plug on the motor anyway.

Yes, its a pity things break on a 17 year-old car, boo hoo, but at least the sucker could have been designed to be repaired and not full of that German plastic.

I did a Volvo roof once, it was straight-forward and easy to adjust, has given me the confidence to do this one, which, I understand, most mechanics won't touch because it is such a pita.

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1991 300 SEL
218,000 Km

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