Today after Autoshow In Motion, we dropped the top for the ride home, and left it down because we were going back out tonight.
We left this evening to go out, stopped at the gas station and noticed some heavy cloud cover and dark spots, storms were about to roll thru per the news anyways.
Went to put the top up and - bing - roof cycle timeout. Tried cycling the ignition and all that, then backed it into a space...
To make a long story short: My roof is mechanically stuck in the down position - I say mechanically because the switch and motor appear to work fine. When it tries to go up, driver's side sticks down hard while passenger side tries to lift. I notice a joint when looking at it, that doesn't match on either side - it's like a spindle or wheel in a u-shaped metal cutout - on the passenger side the wheel is totally out of the cutout, on the driver's side it's lodged in it - there's a spring attached to the rear of said metal cutout and the wheel/spindle is at the bottom corner of the front roof panel's mounting hardware when the roof is stowed, if anybody wants to take a look. The whole kit's twisted up such that the tonneau doesn't even close all the way.
Anyways, rain was imminent and we had to get out of dodge. Home was not an option - no garage or carport, I have a townhouse. Service departments are all closed by this time, but just to try, we hauled over to the local chevy dealer - completely unhelpful, they told me I could use their cleanup bay and try to fix it if I wanted. Which I did try. No avail.
So then I hauled A$$ around the beltway for 15 miles to Tyson's Corner and dropped it at a dealer who opened his service lanes for me to stow the SSR - and not a moment too soon - the sky opened up as I was writing up the drop-envelope for Monday service.
I haven't been able to enjoy this machine for more than 2 or 3 days consecutively since I bought it. I called my purchasing dealer as soon as this happened, of course, and I had just picked it up from there LAST NIGHT after 3 days of other service. He (my sales guy) said "this is ridiculous, you're probably getting close to lemon designation here" - I doubt it highly, but at this point it is nice to feel like the sales guy shares my sentiment. I'm not angry, I'm just sad - sad that I've got this one big issue now to cap off what I thought was just little expectable stuff.
Tomorrow morning I pick up my rental, which will be reimbursed by the purchasing dealer, as the dealer I dropped it off at doesn't "do" loaners.
Wish me luck in the next few days.
We left this evening to go out, stopped at the gas station and noticed some heavy cloud cover and dark spots, storms were about to roll thru per the news anyways.
Went to put the top up and - bing - roof cycle timeout. Tried cycling the ignition and all that, then backed it into a space...
To make a long story short: My roof is mechanically stuck in the down position - I say mechanically because the switch and motor appear to work fine. When it tries to go up, driver's side sticks down hard while passenger side tries to lift. I notice a joint when looking at it, that doesn't match on either side - it's like a spindle or wheel in a u-shaped metal cutout - on the passenger side the wheel is totally out of the cutout, on the driver's side it's lodged in it - there's a spring attached to the rear of said metal cutout and the wheel/spindle is at the bottom corner of the front roof panel's mounting hardware when the roof is stowed, if anybody wants to take a look. The whole kit's twisted up such that the tonneau doesn't even close all the way.
Anyways, rain was imminent and we had to get out of dodge. Home was not an option - no garage or carport, I have a townhouse. Service departments are all closed by this time, but just to try, we hauled over to the local chevy dealer - completely unhelpful, they told me I could use their cleanup bay and try to fix it if I wanted. Which I did try. No avail.
So then I hauled A$$ around the beltway for 15 miles to Tyson's Corner and dropped it at a dealer who opened his service lanes for me to stow the SSR - and not a moment too soon - the sky opened up as I was writing up the drop-envelope for Monday service.
I haven't been able to enjoy this machine for more than 2 or 3 days consecutively since I bought it. I called my purchasing dealer as soon as this happened, of course, and I had just picked it up from there LAST NIGHT after 3 days of other service. He (my sales guy) said "this is ridiculous, you're probably getting close to lemon designation here" - I doubt it highly, but at this point it is nice to feel like the sales guy shares my sentiment. I'm not angry, I'm just sad - sad that I've got this one big issue now to cap off what I thought was just little expectable stuff.
Tomorrow morning I pick up my rental, which will be reimbursed by the purchasing dealer, as the dealer I dropped it off at doesn't "do" loaners.
Wish me luck in the next few days.