Just thought an update might be good for others searching for slow roofs

After all the great advice I decided to wait until the spring to get the roof done, using mrs bongo but don't need the roof and a bit skint so patience.

All the greases and lubricants were out so I thought before putting it ...

yep she's 1996 mike so got the key of the door.
to give you an idea of what a mechanical bell end I can be I went to get in her this morning and had left the ignition on all night :shock:

thinking of taking her for a bit of TLC to your man at bongo spares up north whose always been great with ...

Had a good look at the motors and they show signs of corrosion, I'm certainly going to swop the gas struts because up she goes when I take the weight of the roof particularly from about halfway up so that makes sense to me.
saw that brilliant thread on cleaning and redoing the motors but will have ...

are you talking about the the rocker switch in the cockpit ? sounds like that may be worth a try ...............................

had a search mike and think I can find the motors, at the back under a couple of black covers I'll have a look and see what I can see.

where are they located Mike, sorry to be dull. I sprayed everything is sight just about, even the dog got a bit........
at least I can get it up to have a look

here's a puzzle and hope someone can help..
roof has always been fine if a bit slow but always needed a final push to get it all the way. I got fed up with it and thought time to do some maintenance so raised the roof and cleaned and greased the rails and anything else that looked like it may move ...

With you all, sorted me out with really daft fettling bits that were pestering me ........
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Just a heads up, when I was looking for mine I used an app called vehicle smart,you put in the reg and it gives you the full mot and advisory history. There's a dvla website does the same thing...........I avoided some horrors thanks to that ( advisory 1.unable to check underneath because of heavy ...

Posting this YouTube clip of louis ck talking about deer, don't know if it's allowed and it is quite offensive to some I'm sure so feel free to delete if you think fit.
Just sums up how I feel about pheasants.....and deer

https://youtu.be/ln1ucGoPvWk

thanks for that G8hde, no switches just blanks so when I get round to it I'll take the fuse panel off and see if I can trace the wires.

hit a pheasant last night so busy with mirrors and wind deflectors.................................

First of all thank you for the replies.
I don't have a side conversion just an absolute standard beauty with AFT

I'm not actually fussed about having the blinds electrically operated, I have privacy glass in the rear areas and it's only me and the dog.

My thought process was that given fuses 6 ...

Just fitted a leisure battery with a lovely split charge system off rooster.
I'm connecting the aux/radio and interior lights obviously, the remaining two are for the electric blinds which I dont have........the fuses are in and the leads go to the loom so Im assuming mazda just use the same loom ...

Im a newbie here myself and use my bongo as a second vehicle. The only thing I do is take it out regularly if it's only up into the hills for a cup of tea and a dog run. I suppose what I'm saying is I don't like leaving vehicles standing doing nothing better to run them to show them a bit of care ...

So after my previous post about no sound on the drivers side front or rear I've removed the door card and the speakers fine. I've looked at all the wiring under the dash to the right but that makes me very nervous but there's nothing obvious.
Since Im quite confident to remove the door card I can ...