for the brake light try this:
- start the car and leave it in park.
- pump the parking brake 3 times or until it engages completely (stops ratcheting and stays down)
- feel around above the parking brake pedal for a metal lever. it wasnt painted or coated so it might be surface rusted. when you find it DONT PRESS IT YET
- once you find it position your arm/hands away from the travel path of the parking brake, but still in a position to press the lever. The reason is this will manually release the parking brake which may slap your hand and hurt like hell.
- press the lever. check to see if the light went away.
- if so GREAT your parking brake was triggering the light. if not report back please
Which window isnt working? do the switches have good travel feel and arent "sticky"?
as for the back part locking down? are you talking about the hardtop or softtop? is the motor itself working?
If so, ill give you a trick for the softtop which will make everything ALOT easier.
- Put the boot cover up, there may be a thin shield around the pulldown motor assembly, it can be removed by taking out 4 screws, put the thin shield to the side.
- you should now see the pull down motor assembly
- theres a black wire going to a metal part on the assembly, it looks like a big gauge wire but its really a thick wrap over a regular wire. This is a ground wire to the pulldownmotor, The J-Hook on the top completes the ground circuit and activates the motor causeing it to lower. unfortunately the motor is usually too quick for you.
- you have 2 options here: 1 cut the wire, insulate the end. 2 unbolt the wire, insulate the end.
- The motor will still operate normally, just not automatically. this is the way i use it and i dont think id change it back
- put the thin shield back in and fasten it of course (i left mine out and it didnt affect operation one bit BUT, theres a frayed cable that over the course of a few months ended up fraying the material on my top)
- close the boot cover
- im not sure if you know about the rocker switch, if you dont, feel around the underside of the top stowage area almost directly behind the driver seat, youll feel a small switch this is the pulldown rocker switch, it controls the position of the top pull down motor. once its sending the motor up, it can not reverse the direction until it reaches the top, once its on the way down, it cant change directions until its all the way down.
- ok so use this rocker switch to raise the assembly to the highest point it will go
- raise the top and make sure the front latches are secure. pull the red lever on the driver side to release the bow and lower it. of course still make sure the boot cover is closed. The original procedure says to slam the bow down or lower it sharply, DONT DO THAT THIS TIME
- once you have the bow down as low as it can go, carefully look to see what the hook is doing, it should NOT be hitting the boot cover. It SHOULD be going into the hole in the boot cover, it SHOULD be engaging in the latch.
- if it is hitting the rearmost part of the boot cover, an adjustment needs to be made, report back and ill show you how.
- if it is not hitting the boot cover but is also missing the latch (too far forward), reach in with your finger (not in the hole, just in between the top and boot cover) and manually pull the hook back torward the latch. The hook is spring loaded and will pivot forward with relative ease.
- once it is making contact with the latch, use both hand to press down firmly on the middle of the rear bow.
- you should feel the hook actually go into the latch with a click
- reach in and use the rocker switch to manually lower the pulldown assembly. you want to hold this switch until you hear a CLICK, this click should definitely be loud enough to hear.
Thats IT!