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      03-30-2019, 06:54 PM   #18
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Drives: 2012 Z4 sDrive35is
Join Date: Jan 2012
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Originally Posted by Madscott View Post
I would venture to say what you found for $200 is the motor to un latch the roof at the windshield. The one in the trunk is the hydraulic unit to actually open and close the retractable top . Your problems are like mine . My top worked fine, then it didn’t. When I actually finally got it to move, it closed, put the pump was not strong enough to push the top the last inch or so onto the windshield so that it would latch, although it looked closed. just the opposite when putting it back down. The boot never closed completely
Overall, the location of the hydraulic motor is a major design flaw. They should never have placed that motor in the lowest point in the trunk. Once I fix this issue, I am going to investigate installing some sort of drain so water can’t pool down there again.
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