hi guys. I’m William. New here. LOVE this vehicle. Phoenix is where my wide and I are located. We take the case for little jaunts on the weekend around the metro area tiles until the sun here starts melting the tires. 😉

on a side note, and hopefully helpful for Phoenix/Scottsdale and metro area residents, Airpark Chrysler onE Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, WILL work on our cars. Jacob the tech there, his father has had several and her abs his team are VERY finicky with the nuances of these cars.

my hope is that my situation can be rectified with a simple “to reset procedure”, or the like. But before I did that, then set an appointment for the dealer, I wanted to ask the collective brain trust if the answers to my questions (before), point to a simple solution…like a top sync or something.

Pizzaguy posted these questions 6 years ago, and I’m experiencing the EXACT same thing with my 05 Roadster after flawless operation the last 6 months. I say 6 months because when I bought the car we had to replace (rebuild) all 7 pumps? ( probably not the right word), and replace the hydraulic motor. Since then, the top has worked great.

At that same time a brand new battery was purchased.

More provenance… The car has not died, not been jumped, the alarm has not gone off…. No one has poked, prodded or looked at it funny.

On with the saga… the other day I went to put the top down, and after uncoupling the D ring, nothing…zippo…

so, I found pizzaguy’s post and decided to repost his questions with my answers.

1) If you unlatch the top from the windshield frame, do the driver and passenger windows automatically go down?

- Yes

2) Once the windows go down, is the little light on in the top switch?

- Yes. Stays on. No flashing or intermittent lighting

3) If so, and you press the switch, do you hear a beep?

- No

4) If it does NOT beep - do you hear the faint sound of the electric trunk lock activating?

- Yes (verified by the trunk being locked after the attempt. Could only unlock it AFTER performing pressure release procedure.

5) Do you the hear the hydraulic motor start running?

- Not sure ( I am 99% certain I do not). Where should I hear this from? How loud?

In addition, the trunk obviously locks because I can’t open it afterward unless I do the bleed pressure procedure.


(Your answers should be: yes, yes, no, yes, yes. The first 'wrong' answer is the beginning of knowing what is wrong here.)

thoughts, guidance….

Pleasure to meet all of you

William