The other day I was picking up my girlfriend who was stranded in the middle of nowhere. I had my roadster top down and saw mild looking clouds and thought nothing of it. Lo and behold on the way back it began POURING as I was on the interstate and I pulled over immediately and was able to close the top of my 2005 Limited Roadster.

Ever since then for the past 2 weeks, the top has been slower and slower to open until it got to the point that it just stopped working at all and I had to open/close manually. In addition as I was holding the close switch it popped into the housing by the cupholder so it appears maybe a bracket that holds my switch is broken.

Also I have been getting beeping for about 2 minutes several times which is somewhat rapid. The convertible up/down button also beeps red.

In addition I have had several other weird circumstances such as half the lights on the car staying on (the right side) after parking the car. It is rather unfortunate as I cannot afford to rebuild the top or much of anything at the moment.

I left the top half opened today to air dry in the sun but it doesn't seem to have done much. Has anyone been caught in the rain and experienced any problems? What was the fix?