Disassembling Hardtop
- Remove cover strips and roof strip clips.
- 1.1. Lift up the cover strip on left and right -2-
using a plastic spatula and pull it out of the hardtop body -1-
. The roof strip clips are destroyed when they are removed.
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- Place outer roof panel of hardtop on the assembly fixture.
- Unclipping lining
- 3.1. Unclip lining -3-
at sides and front from hardtop body -1-
.
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- Remove hardtop locking mechanism. → Removing Convertible Top Lock
- Detach seal at sides of roof frame.
- 5.1. The seal at the sides of the roof frame -1-
is in two parts. Pull the upper seal -2-
out of the profile of the retaining strip -3-
.
- 5.2. Unscrew fastening screws -4-
from the retaining strip -3-
.
- 5.3. Remove the seal below together with the retaining strip -5-
from the roof frame -1-
.
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- Loosen and disengage retaining strip and roof frame seal.
- 6.1. Unscrew tapping screws -1-
from retaining strip -2-
.
- 6.2. Unscrew pan-head screw -3-
from the roof frame seal, detach the seal at the corners and remove it.
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- Pull off sealing rubber.
- 7.1. Pull off the surrounding sealing rubber -1-
to the rear and pull it out at the ends from the roof frame seal -2-
.
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- Remove roof liner at front.
- 8.1. Lift front retaining strip -1-
of roof liner -2-
with a plastic spatula and pull it off.
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- Detach roof liner at sides.
- 9.1. Lift up the roof liner -1-
on the left and right sides with a plastic spatula and disengage from the sheetmetal clips -2-
.
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- Detach roof liner at rear and transverse struts.
- 10.1. Pull plastic rail -2-
on roof liner -1-
to the rear and disengage.
- 10.2. Pull out transverse struts -3-
with plastic sleeves -4-
and remove the roof liner -1-
.
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- Loosen sound absorber from the hardtop body.
- 11.1. Loosen the sound absorber -2-
of the hardtop body -1-
using a spatula.
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- Disconnecting wiring harness of the heated rear window
- 12.1. Drill out the 3.2 mm -27-
tubular rivet. Disconnect electric plug connection -28-
, remove wiring harness with hardtop locking mechanism from hardtop body.
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- Remove locking lever.
- 13.1. Unscrew and remove fastening screws -1-
from the locking lever -2-
.
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- Press expander nuts out of the hardtop body.
- 14.1. Press expander nuts -1-
out of the hardtop body -2-
at the sides and front.
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