Thanks.......although that's what I've had to do. I decided I had no choice but to manually dis-engage everything. The porsche manual makes it look vaguely easy to get those gas-strut-arms (whatever they are) off, but one of mine I had to use a full-size crow-bar. I don't think I've damaged anything, but I really didn't have much choice, it was stuck on fast. God knows how I'm going to get it back on!!
Anyway my roof is up, and I guess until I locate a Porsche specialist in my area (South Essex, UK) I can at least get it up and down manually.
I'll just finish this by saying to anyone who it happens to - I was ultra cautious about prising those bars off, but you have to give it some welly*. Lord alone know how some people do it from inside the car when the roof is stuck inthe UP position.
I'll be purchasing a mini-crow-bar I think to carry around with me......you gotta laugh, but it's going to be part of my Boxster toolkit now!
I formally welcome myself back into the world of proper sports-car ownership. I'm just hoping it's not going to be as painful or as costly as when I had the TVR Chimaera....surely it can't be....right?
*'A lot of effort'. British slang
