[PETRONE53]

I wanted to inspect my top on my spider and was wondering if I stop it at any position, will it then continue in the cycle once I push the button to start it again.

Any advise is appreciated.

Dom

 

[Venum]

During detailing, I stopped raising the top about halfway through the cycle and discovered the system looses pressure after 30 seconds and stuff starts seeping down. Especially the boot which I had to manually lift back up in position and push the open/close button until the system figured out where it was. Hopefully someone will have the proper way of doing it but I'll never try it again.

 

[Need4Speed]

Ditto what Venum wrote. I have had to stop it in mid-cycle three or four times to tighten loose screws that were rattling back there. Each time, the top began to droop down after 30-40 seconds. As Venum wrote, you have to manually lift the top back to the point where it stopped in mid-cycle while pressing the covertible top open/close switch. It is certainly an anxious moment while you are waiting and hoping that the top "finds itself". So far, it always has - but it is rather unnerving.

 

[Aaron06]

I also had trouble with a mid cycle stop. I did it once for pics in a bunch of positions, but another time I did it and the top stopped completely and was stuck.

It was on arrival at my sons basketball game, couldn't get his stuff out of the trunk, it was about to rain, etc. etc. Not good.

I went through the whole manual process, and it had lost pressure after.

I came up with the idea of doing the manual process to put it down without opening the screw, the rebuilt pressure, and then it worked. I have never stopped in middle again.

They seem very finicky....:cheers:

 

[YSRJunkie]

What I do sometimes is leave the car running to inspect it and it will stay generally in a mid position for approx 3 minutes then release.

 

[Vincenzo]

Damn....I was hoping someone had the magic answer to this mystery. As everyone else, I stopped mine mid-cycle to look inside and try to clean but then had about an hour of 'aftermath' trying to figure out how to get back to normal.

 

[Need4Speed]

If you really need to do it, Petrone, I have little doubt that you'll get it back in sync - it just may take some jockeying around with it. The anxiety and agonizing about a stuck top after stopping it mid-cycle has always seemed much worse than the way it actually turned out. That still doesn't change the fact that the pucker-factor for this operation is about a 9.5! That being said, if it ain't broke.........

 

[michaeladler]

From my previous experience owning a 2005 Spyder, NEVER stop the roof cycling in mid session and ALWAYS keep the engine running when you open and close the roof.