If fiddling with the loading leavers fixes things, then I'd look to the contact switch under the the little shelf foot on the driver's side. Release the leavers and lift top assembly then check along the rail where the shelf rests. Could be something trapped under there. Or, it could be the switch itself.
The problem seems to be that, even with the loading levers fully pushed in, the shelf does not put enough downward pressure on the switch to allow the top to be lowered. If I push it in by hand, my wife can then activate the top. So, I'm thinking, what if I got one of those adhesive backed discs that you put on objects so that they don't mar furniture, on top of the switch in the trunk. What do you think?
The big problem with rigging something to defeat that switch is that if something in the boot is pushing the shelf up out of place, you would have no way of knowing that when you try to lower the top... Until your rear window shatters. Which is bad, since it's part of the top...
That is exactly what I did on the inside of the boot gate for the 'door ajar' switch and that danged 'ajar' light stays off now. Gotta think of something else though, hot weather softens the glue backing and it slides around.
Problem solved (I hope) with a 10mm adhesive backed felt disc. It seems that the boot shelf slightly warped or something and the piece that makes contact with the switch wasn't hitting the raised part of the rocker switch. It was hitting the flat part. With the spacer in there it engages enough to lower the top. Weird, eh?
Thanks for that! Now I remember somebody in our car club mentioning that. I thought I'd heard something like that but couldn't put my finger on it. I've got a 'turn your head and cough' appointment for the li'l guy middle of next month and we'll look into it.
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