Can the hard top be opened manually on 2005 sl 500

 

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To answer your questions, yes, but not easily. The flaps must be operated and that's best done with SDS:

THis is the "manual close" document, but opening would be much the same, just reverse the appropriate steps:

http://benzbits.com/r230/Roof/ManualClose.pdf

And the flaps:

http://benzbits.com/r230/Roof/ManualCloseFlaps.pdf

 

I did the manual close, but manual open did not work for me. Never could figure why, but roof did not get all the way down in the trunk and rear shelf never got in the horizontal position. I gave up and closed the roof.

 

A friend and I struggled with lowering the top on his car a couple of weeks ago. I think it is because the "Easy Pack" hydraulic cylinders are able to freely move and are not supporting the roof mechanism in their extended position.

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Hi Rudney, where are you looking for those photos with images that explain with doing tasks in Mercedes SL? I would like to have that information to assemble and disassemble some parts of my car. Thank you

 

Most all of my docs and photos that I keep on my website come from SDS.

 

Thanks Rudeney, unfortunately I don't have any diagnostic machine and I can't have that kind of documents.