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I would suggest checking the connector first, as it is easy to get at.
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Or you could check the main rear lid connector for corrosion on the pins.
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Occasionally the spoiler on my yr 2000 C2 fails to return to "closed" and will stay up until I stop the car and take out the ignition key then restart the car and exceed 36mph, it will then close once back to 36mph as it should. Any ideas?
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Occasionally happens to mine. I though I may have inadvertently hit the manual button on the wheel arch foot-well with my foot.
I guess with your moniker that wont be a problem for you!
May be a dodgy microswitch. There is one to tell the system it is up, and one to tell the system it is down. If you aren't getting a fault light, I expect it is the 'down' switch which may be sticking.
Or a dodgy relay.
Or you could check the main rear lid connector for corrosion on the pins.
I don't know exactly where it is located, but I think it is on one of the spoiler hinges (not the lid hinge). It is a 3-switch unit - apart from the two switches for the spoiler up/down positions, it has one to activate the spoiler brake light when the spoiler is up. The switch has 5 wires going to it, which might help locate it.
I would suggest checking the connector first, as it is easy to get at. The connections sometimes corrode. Then I would try swapping the two spoiler relays (on the relay panel under the carpet behind the rear seats). If the spoiler then occasionally sticks down, instead of up, then you know the relay is at fault.
Being an intermittent fault, it might be difficult to track down.
Here's a pic of the mechanism, showing the switches? next to the motor.
Don't seem to be able to get access to them without removing the entire winding mecahanism.
TB
Here is the spoiler wiring. It shows the 3 switches all in one, but they might be separate. Perhaps you can locate the appropriate switch from the wire colours.
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Clarkson did say that the C4S was the mock tudor house of the 911 range, so maybe its the faux leaded window that is catching your eye!? :nooo: :coat:
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