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Today I pulled up to a traffic light that just went red. Since I knew I was looking at maybe 2 minutes plus, I decided to put the top up since I was going to a movie and would have had to put the top up anyway. I started it up to the point where the top was raising out of the trunk.

About this time, some jerk pulls up tight on my rear. I released pressure on the brake pedal to creep forward a coupe of feet at maybe 1/2 MPH. As soon as the car started to move, the top quit moving and I felt a jerk. I immediately add brake pressure to stop the move. I probably only moved about 2 feet if that. As soon as I was full stopped I reversed the process and then waited until I could park before putting the top back up (with no problem.)

I could have swore I saw something here to the effect that the top can be put up or down at less than 5 MPH (which I was no where near).

I'm never going to touch the up/down switch again unless the parking brake is engaged.
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GOgg
Mine is set not to operate if the speed is greater than zero mph, come up and says speed to fast. Done the same at lights myself and found a similar situation.
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Doolallygirl said:
Been caught in rain and the roof won't go up when moving, done the same thing as you at lights but had to drive with it half up/half down for about 2 mins looking like a right doughnut before I could pull over!! :D
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Worse than that I got caught on the motorway in a cloud burst, had to pull over and that 30sec time for the roof to close seemed like an eternity. Every thing was completely soaked. A lesson to me that you should only use the sun roof if there is a strong possibility of rain and you are motorway driving.
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I'm pretty sure most othe CC's have this as standard. why VW don't do it as well is a mystery.
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