Welcome to the Crossfire world. You'll love it and you appear to be resourceful. We became owners a year and a half ago. This forum is invaluable. We went thru our car from bumper to bumper, did all of the recommended "fixes" and did all maintenance recommendations and have had nothing but trouble free, top down driving since. Enjoy the trip! This is the forum I spent a lot of time on, over the first six months. How about a pic? By the way, when you remove the cowl to clean out the crap, you may as well fix the windshield wiper escutcheon and replace the siren if it doesn't work .