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I have tested the switch and it tests just fine
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I don't have the answer for you, but check the rods that operate the top.
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If it is not doing 'dancing' with the front of the soft top, I would really suspect those pushrods even more.
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I don't have the answer for you, but check the rods that operate the top.
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I don't have the answer for you, but check the rods that operate the top.
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I have tested the switch and it tests just fine
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those pushrods even more

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If it is not doing 'dancing' with the front of the soft top, I would really suspect those pushrods even more.
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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

when closing my roof, just 3" before it touches the windshield top, my roof does a little disco dance! it stops and goes back 1", then forward 1", then back 1", etc etc etc while I am holding the top up button same deal for the top down button I rap on the button several times until I can get it going in the down direction, then change to up switch and it closes I have tested the switch and it tests just fine has anyone seen this?

POST 2Original post

I'm sorry, but it seems your car has come down with disco fever !

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I don't have the answer for you, but check the rods that operate the top. They have the plastic cups on one end and bolt into a lever arm on the other end. The other end of the lever arm moves the clamshell cover. If it is not doing 'dancing' with the front of the soft top, I would really suspect those pushrods even more. I suspect they are out of adjustment or have some worn bushings. . See if you can get some one to operate the roof while you watch those linkages.

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The roof relay is not just a mechanical DPDT relay

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