Hello hello.
I bought a nice newish (2006) 1.8T Cabrio in the UK and all was fine.
I exported to Finland as I am British but live here and cars way more expensive here.
But anyway I accidentally stopped the roof as it was closing when my wife wanted to put something in the boot and so from then on the roof doesn't open and close automatically.
So what have I done. Well first I tried the 2-3 times manual effort which is a bit of a task on my own (the roof is actually quite heavy pulling up and down from one side). That didn't solve it. Note - I have had the flashing roof light on.
I undertook the lengthy check and clean on the commutator with the motor - took yonks to actually get all the bits from the back out - but with great pictures,
from this thread, managed it.
So.... came to try and the light wasn't flashing any more BUT it didn't work.
First the roof went up nicely and the metal cover went up but before the roof came down and tucked in the metal cover started to close
I had to manually go under the back seat to release the lock as it was locked?! and then shut the cover and put the roof back up (closed) as it wouldn't close.
I might have one more go at a manual reset (2 times) but I don't have much hope.
I went to Audi (Espoo, Finland) before I tried the motor clean and they said "â¬75 thanks very much for a check which gave some error code" and followed up with a "next visit will be a time with the electrician and we will call if the work goes over â¬300" .. nice.
When the lights were out on the dash (after you start you always get all lights on but then they all go out) I was hopeful.
I am not an electrician and don't know any good independent Audi dealers here and for some weird reason they don't tend to have a lot of cabrios here .. (something to do with the snow and minus temps in the Winter).
Any thoughts .. I really thought it was near but when the back metal cover started slowly going down instead of the roof being stored I was saying 'nooooo'.
Frustrated cab owner in sunny, soon to be collllldddddd Finlandia.
.. update ..
Well I tried manually opening and then closing twice with the ignition on but to no avail ..