Soft top stuck... help needed

[ludo21]

I have managed to get my soft top stuck with the rear bow stuck in the box compartment!

The fix for this is described in the Tech Manual but I can't get it to work.... the inverted 'L' brackets mention (that I am supposed to push up) have no give in them at all! (they merely form part of the rear bow frame).

I will try and attach photo to show the part I mean, but it does not appear to be spring loaded and does not move!

Any ideas

Having trouble attaching photoso will try and post it later.

[ludo21]

Photo...

[JamesL]

This happened to me recetntly. I found that if I stood on the floor in the back of the car and had the front of the top halfway up, I could just about reach over to the rear bow and lift it out quite easily. Doing it from one side didn't work as the whole thing twisted a bit so standing in the back it was...

[Cees Klumper]

If you do a search on the forum you will find many a post that goes into this. Given how many owners have been stymied by this problem, I'd call this a design flaw ...

[Peter van Es]

You need to push the L shaped lever (but it will only move a little) and whilst you do this, push HARD on each side of the frame up-right. You indeed cannot move the lever on it's own.

Try again... http://www.sl113.org/wiki/Tops/SoftTop#StuckSofttop