04 plate Audi A4 soft top issue

MowyTone · 15 Jan 2014 at 08:50

Asking for a friend on this one. When the roof is retracted the back plate opens up fine and the soft top then folds away and the back plate closes. When you go to close the roof the back plate only opens half way and the soft top gets stuck.

Has anyone had any dealing with an issue like this? Any tips on where to look?

Thanks

paradigm · 15 Jan 2014 at 09:00

The first place to look is a scan with VCDS (what used to be VAGCOM). It'll tell you (in plain English) what fault codes there are.

There's no real point in 2nd guessing what the fault could be, when there are so many people out there with VCDS cables who would either scan it for you for free, or for beer tokens.

Jump onto an owners forum for any of the VAG marques (Audi, Seat, Skoda, VW), and ask/look to see if anyone offers it in your area. Seatcupra.net for example has a section of their forums dedicated to asking for someone local with VCDS to help you out.

If you were closer, I'd do it.

MowyTone · 15 Jan 2014 at 09:10

Cheers for the advice, will pass it on

MowyTone · 15 Jan 2014 at 09:53

Just heard back and he's already had a VAGCOM hooked up and no faults flagged up. Think its strange the back plate will open up fully when putting the roof down but only open half way when going to put it up again