Hello everyone,

Thanks to those who replied and offered help. I'm just reporting back to let you know what the problem was found to be now that it is fixed.

The BCM (body control module) had to be replaced. I found a competent service manager at a dealer in a nearby town who kept it on the meter until a fault code was captured. It turns out this module controls the wing and the mechanism that raises and lowers the top, and it was reading the car as moving about 5km/hr while it was standing still.

Another interesting twist to this story is that, because my car is out of warranty, the repair was going to run me more than 700 Euros (just over $1000 at current exchange rates) because of the cost of the part here in Germany. But the svc mgr said it would be a lot less if I could get it from the US and he would be wiling to install a part I didn't buy through him considering I had just done the 50K full service through him.

It turns out that, for a part manufactured in Germany by MBenz and exported to the US for Mopar, it ended up costing me nearly $500 cheaper by getting it from a dealer in the US and having a friend bring it back for me than if I bought the same part here in Germany.

The entire repair ended up costing me only $450 US, absolutely amazing how much of a difference it makes buying things in the US instead of over here !!!!

Anyway, everything is back to working perfectly and I'm once again a happy C-fire owner who can take advantage of a summer with the top down :>)

Cheers