E36 soft top adjustment?

[se6b]

Hi, anyone know if its simple to adjust the hood? When the back window comes up as you're lowering the roof, the tray catches on its way up, meaning I have to reach over and pull the back of the hood forward a couple of inches for the tray to clear it. Strangely its absolutely fine when raising the hood back up.

Its a fully automatic hood on a '97 328i.

Cheers!

[JRSE]

I've spent a fortune trying to resolve this. I'm on the 2nd dealership now. See my huge thread in this forum!

The first dealer blamed a kinked hood frame. It took them 5 months to give up. 2nd dealer has been more helpful and may have cracked it (adjusted a rod with some play in it and adjusted microsensors). Fingers crossed.

I've had new tension straps.
Adjusted microsensors and timing delay
Had rods adjusted

[se6b]

JRSE said:

I've spent a fortune trying to resolve this. I'm on the 2nd dealership now. See my huge thread in this forum! The first dealer blamed a kinked hood frame. It took them 5 months to give up. 2nd dealer has been more helpful and may have cracked it (adjusted a rod with some play in it and adjusted microsensors). Fingers crossed. I've had new tension straps. Adjusted microsensors and timing delay Had rods adjusted

Hi JRSE, I had a read through your thread yesterday. Scary stuff! Fortunately my problems are very limited in comparison. I've only had the car just under two weeks now and am absolutely loving it As I say, the only niggle I have so far is the hood catching on the tray while lowering. This was a problem I picked up on before I bought the car. The garage did fix it for me at the time but after around three or four lowerings it had started to snag again. The garage will undoubtedly fix it free of charge for the next six months but I was wondering if this is a really easy one to adjust myself to save me parting with the car for a day or two? When I stop the hood mechanism with the tray open I can see a rod with an adjuster on the passenger side...might this be it??? Apart from this I'm lucky that it has no major leaking problems. The two channels at the top of the windscreen do occasionally drip slightly depending on how its parked, but its so minor I not worried by it...(particularly after 10 years with a Scimitar GTE that leaked like a sieve) ...and it no where near as bad as my mates Elise used to be.


Anybody know what the metal tray type thing is in the boot on the passenger side??

[JRSE]

Hi,

The leak problem has been fixed which is great. However the lid catching the hood was the next nightmare. Numerous trips to the dealerships... They adjust the rods and it's ok - I get home and it catches!!

Then last week I went back to another dealer. They said a rod had some slack in it and the compartment lid misses the hood by about an inch or so after they adjusted it. When the lid was up he pointed to a rod underneath it on the passenger side. It can't be difficult as they did it within 5 minutes.

I'm now enjoying one of these cars too!

[se6b]

Glad to hear things are looking up for you. I'll have a play around with the rods before I take it in. I noticed the other night there are actually two. Hmmmm....

[JRSE]

Well first time I've tried the hood since being at the dealers - still have problems catching!