TurboTomato

I'll ask when it goes in. Well as far as I could gather it will only be with them for the day. I need a loan car and he didn't mention anything about having it more than a day.

Well some good news on mine. The folding roof specialist couldn't find what was causing the problem with my roof, which is good for me as it doesn't imply that I've done anything wrong to cause it (not that I have). The service manager has reported his findings to Nissan and they've authorised repair work to be carried out by the folding roof specialist company. It goes in on the 17th to have that done.

Will find out tomorrow when mine goes in....

Indeed it is - hello! :bye:

I've got a similar problem with my 56 reg Roadster and I'm really quite worried (you'll see why in a moment). I had the same problem as described, this Saturday - roof got most of the way down but wouldn't retract the last bit. On the off-chance that my local dealer was open (Motorline, Tunbridge Wells) I drove it down, and it was. They looked at it on the spot and handed me the keys back within about 45mins, saying that a clip (or somesuch) that holds the rear screen in place when folding, had come undone. They had put it back in place, tested the roof, and said it was fine. I didn't have a chance to test it on the spot. Unfortunately it doesn't end there. The next time I go to retract the roof, if gets to about the same place and slows right down (seeming to get stuck on something) before clearing itself and folding fully. This didn't seem right at all so I put the roof back up. On putting it back up I noticed that the first roof spar didn't look right - the plastic that surrounds it looked uneven on the side facing the windscreen. On closer inspection, the piece of metal this mounts on had sheared its welding onto the spar itself and seemed to be bent forward. Clearly this was not right so I didn't touch the roof from then on and took the car to Motorline first thing on Monday. I was told initially that it was going to need a new roof, but that they could not guarantee that it would be covered under warranty. The worrying bit is that I think (I'm not clear exactly what the service manager meant) that Nissan have initially refused the warranty, and that a new roof costs (sitting down?) £9000. The car is going back in on Friday for more investigation work and he said that an engineer from Nissan would have to have a look at the car as well - I think perhaps what he meant was that they won't authorise £9k worth of new roof without sending an engineer down first to have a good look at it. As you can imagine, I am quite worried as you can imagine, although at the same time I cannot see how they cannot warranty it.