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We recently had to lower our elevating roof manually using the hydraulic oil release valve as described in the owners manual. After successfully lowering the roof the console thought that the roof was still up and so gave a warning message "Roof open", (or similar) and a warning bleep. Also the open roof icon on the panel was flashing. So we drove home safely (the roof was firmly down) but had to keep pressing the rotary button on the RHS of the control panel to cancel the warning bleep which started up at every jolt. We could not now raise the roof as the system did not respond when we followed the usual procedure.
Today I found on the internet that there is a reset button on the console and by using this we reset the sensor and the warning bleep etc stopped and we can now raise and lower the roof OK as before.
To do this "reset" you press the small square button just below the RH rotary button. (It's the one with some computer files drawn on it). You press it for a full 5+ seconds and everything resets. I have now written this instruction into our glove box manual on the relevant page. Surely VW could have done this! They ask you instead to take the California to an approved distributor to be looked at. Ours is fully booked until mid November!
The root cause of our problem is probably that our leisure batteries are at least 10 years old and need replacing. So I will look up the appropriate thread here on the forum to see how to do this. The roof motor runs off of the leisure batteries but these batteries can be boosted by the alternator if the engine is running at a reasonable lick (as a temporary work around)
Today I found on the internet that there is a reset button on the console and by using this we reset the sensor and the warning bleep etc stopped and we can now raise and lower the roof OK as before.
To do this "reset" you press the small square button just below the RH rotary button. (It's the one with some computer files drawn on it). You press it for a full 5+ seconds and everything resets. I have now written this instruction into our glove box manual on the relevant page. Surely VW could have done this! They ask you instead to take the California to an approved distributor to be looked at. Ours is fully booked until mid November!
The root cause of our problem is probably that our leisure batteries are at least 10 years old and need replacing. So I will look up the appropriate thread here on the forum to see how to do this. The roof motor runs off of the leisure batteries but these batteries can be boosted by the alternator if the engine is running at a reasonable lick (as a temporary work around)
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