[s-cars] Manually close sunroof process

[Wylie Bean]

I had the same problem and have not replaced the red cap because the Bentley  
manual says it's a dealer-must procedure. If your roof was out of position  
there's a good chance the gear-driven cable was slipping like mine was.  Not  
sure how to fix that issue besides dropping the headliner (mine needs that  
anyway to replace the fabric cover) and cleaning / lubing it. Then setting  
the positions back to factory and replacing the red cap.



Wylie Bean
theringmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
91 200q20v
92 urS4
08 Q7

-----Original message-----
From: "weski at verizon.net" <weski at verizon.net>
To: S-Car-List at audifans.com
Sent: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 17:02:34 EDT
Subject: [s-cars] Manually close sunroof process

My sunroof has been acting up recently (it would pop-up arbitrarily by  
itself and then close itself a minute later).  This has been ongoing for  
several years but did it only once a month or so that it didn't bother me  
enough to look into it.  A few weeks ago, it seemed to lose home position -  
I went to close it and it went past closed to the pop-up position even  
though the dial was in the closed position.  To get the sunroof to stay  
closed I would turn it to slide it open but turn off the key and open the  
door right as it was in the closed position.

Today, when I turned it to close it stopped a couple inches from full close.  
 If I turn the dial to pop-up, it did nothing - it thought it was already in  
pop-up.  It's supposed to rain tonight so I pulled the panel open, pried the  
red cap off, and cranked the roof closed.

My question is - how do you replace the red cap?  Without the red cap, the  
motor runs but doesn't engage the sunroof gears so I can't really test to  
know if it is working correctly now or not. I do know that I can drive like  
this without worry of getting wet inside but I'll want to get this figured  
out so I can enjoy the nice summer days.

Let me know if there is a secret to replacing this red cap.  I tried using  
my rubber mallet but didn't want to hammer it too hard for fear of breaking  
something.

TIA,

Paul Dooley
95 S6 237k daily driver
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