Thing on my 206 I don't know what it's for!

britboy · Post by **britboy** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:26 am

Hi,

IN the boot of my car .. there is a kind of bit of white string with a plastic bobble on the end of it which sticks out of the plastic bit at the top.

Oh thats just a useless description ..

er .. it looks a bit like a bathroom light pulling string thing but only comes out about 2 inches into the boot and seems to do nothing even when I've tried to pull it a bit!

Anyone know what this thing is? Or indeed what I am talking about at all?

Erm · Post by **Erm** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:30 am

its for the manual release of the roof........ dont mess about with it and make sure its snuggly pushed in otherwise your roof cud bugger up!!!!!

CB · Post by CB » Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:36 pm

Erms right - don't pull it out or leave it dangling (phnarr!) Push it back in and make sure its in TIGHT

Post by **Lyndon** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:39 pm

or when the roof comes down it could cut it off

and get tangled up in the roof itself.

http://www.peugeot206cc.co.uk/videos5.html

shows some videoclips of what the white thing does,not sure which clip tho

Darth Bourj · Post by **Darth Bourj** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:46 pm

I thought it was for holding the cover when removed.

I believe it holds the cover so you can get to the mechanism below the rear screen in order to lower the roof manually. It was poking out on my car about 6 weeks ago. I investigated it a bit and decided to just push it back in. No problems since.

Cappy · Post by **Cappy** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 7:38 pm

Lyndons used this before, Has your roof been fixed????

Post by **Lyndon** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:04 pm

never used the white toggle thingy.

yeah me roof's been fixed a few weeks ago

Pauline · Post by **Pauline** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:05 pm

I've used it and, when I'd finished with it, it was flopping about a bit (fnarr) and the roof made a weird clunking sound when going down (fnarr fnarr) - so I tucked it back in and hey presto - silent roof operation! So the moral is, keep it tucked in if you don't wanna snap it off

Sara · Post by **Sara** » Thu Aug 14, 2003 8:10 pm

Thnaks for that post Pauline, my thingy is dangling so I am going to push it back in (That sounds abit rude) hopefully my roof will stop cluncking then

Sara

CB · Post by CB » Fri Aug 15, 2003 8:48 am

You missed off a "fnarr fnarr" at the end there Pauline!!

ICE DOCTOR · Post by **ICE DOCTOR** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:47 am

Thnaks for that post Pauline, my thingy is dangling so I am going to push it back in (That sounds abit rude) hopefully my roof will stop cluncking then

Sara

ICE DOCTOR · Post by **ICE DOCTOR** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 9:50 am

If such a small "Thingy" can have such a big impact, does that now answer the age old question "does size count?"

britboy · Post by **britboy** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 10:59 am

Oh WOW!

My roof does 2 'clunks' on the way down as well -- quite loud!

And my white floppy thing is hanging out!

Don't know how its gonna make the difference =-- but I'm tucking it back in again asap!

nx · Post by nx » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:35 am

Took it back it or it will snap off as mine did last week - ooh eerr madam.

Seriously though the cord is used to manually shift the mini parcel shelf thingy behind the back seats if the roof is broken. When you open the roof automatically and hear the clunking sound it is because the toggle on the string is caught in the folded roof and as the parcel shelf is flipped back up it tries to pulls the string back in hence the clunking and eventual snapping.

Currenlty waiting for a replacement to arrive at the dealers!

Darth Bourj · Post by **Darth Bourj** » Fri Aug 15, 2003 11:46 am

Now you say it. "Clunking noise" My roof was making a noise as the plastic cove flipped over (You know the cover.- The one that flips over at the final point of the roof being lowered). It was this that made me check out things in the boot and discovered the string hanging out. I guess it was a simple case of car PMT.