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Old 07-26-2006, 10:07 AM
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Yesterday out of the blue my soft top wouldn't go up, so i just had to pull up on it and latch it up. the problem is that it wont go up or down. the fuse under the hood is fine, so i don't know what could make it stop working...? any help would be great! thanks. oh yeah it a year 2000
Old 07-26-2006, 10:24 AM
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You have the brake pulled and it's showing the brake light on the dash? Won't open or close without the brake.
Old 07-26-2006, 10:46 AM
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There is more than one fuse under the hood and several fuses that must be intact under the dash for the top to work.
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yeah the brake light is going on....what other fuses do you need???
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could be the motor for the top is burned out. Not likely, but possible.

There aren't that many fuses, just check them all . Besides, its good to know if any are burned out.
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There are two motors. Not likely both would be dead. And one working motor would be very obvious when you try to use the top. It's going to be a fuse, or bad switch of some kind.
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Does the top switch operate the windows or does it do nothing when switched? Couldn't hurt to check all the fuses just to be sure (as xviper said, there are multiple fuses to check for this).
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An after-thought:
Have you been doing anything under the center console of late? There have been instances where the person did not "click in" the top switch or somehow tampered with the ebrake interupt switch.
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naw i did the brakes, and i took off my right hand door panel to find out that my window regulator is bad, but i don't think that would affect it would it??
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The windows have to be down before the top will move.....Just a guess, but maybe the window regulator is your problem.


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