Well, I registered to forum only 2 days ago and I have had my 92 500 SL for only 2 days too and I get already my first issue. Every worked perfectly until yesterday evening when I tried to open the soft top again. The operation started working ok with the back cover opening and the back of the soft top moving up but then it stopped when the top part is supposed to retract. When trying to figure out what was wrong I found out that my left windows did not operate anymore and I assume that this is the reason why the operation of opening the top did not go through completely. So now I have to find out why the left window does not work. When the left windows was still working I remember noticing that the left windows took more time to move up than the right one. I am wondering if it is the motor or possibly a relay somewhere that gave up. Today I will start by checking if there is a separate fuse for the left window then the next on my list will be to check if there is a relay somewhere for this before looking at the motor itself. Any suggestion would be very welcome
Thanks in advance
Alain

 

Well, that was an easy fix after all. It was just the left windows fuse that was blown, fuse box in the trunk. After replacing the fuse everything worked great including the soft top opening and closing operation.