Targa rear guides

Quick question, I want to clean and dry lubricate the rear glass guide channels on my Targa, they are covered by a curtain that retracts as the window moves back, I believe these can be unclipped to allow access, anyone done this or know how, I am sure there is a Targa roof guru on the forum GT3 may be? Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Suggest you do a search on here for like posts, I know deMort who used to post was an expert on them

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from the internet Thanks for the informational posts on installation of a replacement Targa shade. I just completed mine and took some photos documenting the process. As kgoertz said, slide the front seats all the way forward and tilt them forward as well. I did all of this work from the back seat on the passenger side. I fully closed the glass roof and opened the rear window to give myself headroom. Overview I bought a darker Targa shade, part number 997.562.405.00 . It looks like a few dealers and parts stores sell it, for wildly varying prices. Here's a photo of the old shade on the right and the new shade on the left. The new one is much darker. Shade operation There is an electric motor under the back of the sliding Targa top. It has a gear on top. When this gear rotates, the teeth move two tight coils of wire in the drive system. These coils of wire slide within tubes that go to the left and right sides of the roof. At the ends of the two coils are slots into which the front rod of the shade fit. There are also "pushers" halfway along the drive coils that push on the middle rod. The shade is stored in a roll at the back of the Targa window. The drive system pulls the shade off of the roll when extending the shade. When retracting the shade, the drive system moves backward, but it is coil springs inside of the shade roll that roll it back up. Removing the old shade Remove the plastic cover over the shade motor by pulling straight down on the front side, tilting it free. This exposes the motor. Remove the two Torx screws and one nut holding the motor in. The motor will fall free straight down. Removing the motor enables moving the two drives on each side separately. Grasp the front "rod" and pull the right side back a few inches so that it is at a diagonal. Now the two ends can be pulled free of the left and right drives. The rod is hollow on the ends. There is a little plastic fitting on each end that fits into the drive. Remove these. One of mine was stuck and I had to break it out in pieces with needle-nose pliers. The middle rod can also be removed at this point. If it is still in too tight to remove, pull back on the right side a few more inches so that it is at more of a diagonal. Let the shade be rolled up by its internal spring. The shade is held in place left-to-right by a spring pushing along its axis. Grasp the rolled-up shade and push it to the right. This compresses the axial spring. Tilt the left side free and remove the whole shade. Installing the new shade. Pull out the pin and let the roll-up spring unwind. Clip a vise-grip onto the square end. Hold the shade in your left hand. Roll the vise-grip17 turns counter-clockwise. Push the pin in through the hole in the shade "frame" and into the hole in the square end of the shaft. This holds the shade rolled up. Remove the vise-grip. With the new shade in the car, position the roll with the shade coming off the top of the roll. Push the right side into place and compress the axial spring. Swing the left side into place, Using needle-nose pliers, remove the pin. This is tight, but you can squeeze the pliers in at an angle. Pull the front "rod" of the shade forward. It should travel smoothly to the front of the car. Insert the left and right sides of the rod into the drive diagonally, then force them straight. This is the trickiest part. I could just squeeze the side of my head against the top window and see the little slots in the drive in the left and right sides where the rod need to go. If needed, slide a flathead screwdriver into one side of the drive and force it forward or backward. Next, install the middle rod. The drive also pushes on it, but only backward. Thus, the ends don't fit into slots, but just fit in back of "pushers" in the drive. Also, the shade must be positioned withing the gaps at the ends of the middle rods. Finally, reinstall the motor and motor cover. One of the screws was very loose when I went to work on this, so I put Loctite on all of these fittings upon reassembly. The gear on my motor had threads in it that I cleaned out. I also put a little lithium grease on the teeth I also sprayed silicone lubricant into the slots along which the shade rods move.

Very comprehensive write up

Thanks for both responses, at the moment my blind is OK it's the soft covers that retract as the glass runs under the hatch area that I am looking to get behind in order to clean the guides