Hello board members
I have a 2000 Boxster and never have had any trouble w/ the top (though rarely used). Today while driving the car along I noticed the convertible top light on the dash was staying lit while driving......so suspected some sort of issue.....I wanted to see if the top still worked, so I put attempted to put the top down and it did work to go down (though w/ fair amt of racket). But when I then tried to raise the top, it went a couple inches up only and then no more. Sounded like the motor to raise it cut out or something. I could lower it again to full open....but again the issue is that the top won't raise up and close now (also the side windows won't close completely).
The parking brake was on while trying to operate the top. And the parking brake sensor I believe is fine - I can activate/deactivate the parking brake handle and the light for that on the dash goes on/off normally.
I saw some youtube video that led me to believe possible some convertible top relay (986.618.199.00) has gone bad.
Any ideas? If it's just the relay that seems pretty easy to fix myself. If it's more a matter of the motor inside the convertible top going bad or some of the cabling/etc, then I will have to get help.
Thanks in advance