A Happy new year to everyone. I have some very enlightening news for everyone to start 2010. I recently my visited my local Audi specialist AM Cars in Ilminster, Somerset. I told him that my open-sky wasn't working and the proprietor Rupert looked on this forum and read the various problems people are having and told him I wanted my roof fixed. He has a lot of connections within VAG UK and contacted Brian Bell the tools and equipment administrator. He was informed that the roof can be repaired by an Audi dealer instead of having a new one fitted. However the dealer has to have a VAS 6010 slide/tilt roof assembly device. This part will cost the dealer £1027 plus VAT and delivery. In my case AM cars were not prepared to purchase a part that he might only use once. I can understand that in the circumstabnces. It seems that you need to find an Audi dealer that has this part (if any) and they should be able to repair the roof. Also required is a repair kit, part number 8Z0 898 738 comprising of a set of cables and guides is £139.18 plus vat and there are 4 in stock in he UK.
Here are some PDF files.
I'm waiting on a call back from Peter Smith, service-manager at Audi Eastbourne. I dont see why Audi cannot loan out the repair jig from dealer to dealer in order to get these open skys working. If they won't do a recall then surely it's the least they can do. We customers would still be paying for the repair kits and labour plus vat so they are quids in anyway??!! I wouldnt mind paying for the repair but it would just be foolish to fork out a fifth of the cars value just to open the sunroof....even if I could afford it !!If having the device to repair the roof means the repair is a DIY job, is this something the club members with broken Open sky may be interested in looking into?
If there are say more than 10 folk interested in buying the kit, and we could find an appropriate source to complete the repair, this may be a goer.
Thoughts?
Glen
Hi All,
I too have some problems with OpenSky. It did not close fully, but opened OK and seems to be gliding freely etc.
I closed it manually with the hex-key using the instructions in the user manual. This improved the situation somewhat: When I now try to open it to the first position (lift just the back of the front panel up), nothing happens (although I can hear the motor run). However, when I press it again, the whole window opens normally. Also, when I close it, it closes it fully. Is it as if there is slack in the gears/cables somewhere?
Any ideas anyone where the problem lies, and can it be fixed?
Many thanks
Maybe the motor is now out of sync. You could try the reset procedure in this post - http://www.a2oc.net/forum/showpost.php?p=31318&postcount=15
Cheers Spike