How to remove the parcel shelf with electric sunblind

[magellan]

Hello,

Before you all point me to the search feature or to some excellent how-to, I want to say: I did it already!

I just spent 3 hours trying to remove the parcel shelf fitted with the electric sunblind. There are 2 reasons I want to do so:
1) The motor of the sunblind is stuck and a tug on the blind or hitting the motor with a hammer didn't do it
2) I want to locate the plug for the PDC sounder.

I removed the rear seat cushions, pulled the back seats forward, removed the the plastic surrounding covering the c pillars, removed the sound proffing foam and clips behind the seat, undid the screwholding the shelf to the roof of the boot in the middle).

I can then pull the shelf up and towards me, 1 or 2 inches, not more, it then gets stuck, blocked by seat belt rolls. No matter how hard I try to pull it up to pass the fasteners, it is not enough.

The weird thing is that I fitted it myself… well it also took me 3 hours (for the same reason) to fit it once the original parcel shelf (without electric sunblind) was removed.

Any idea or suggestion about what I do wrong/forgot/missed in the how-to's that prevent me from removing it?

[StevenWilliams]

Originally Posted by magellan

Hello,

Before you all point me to the search feature or to some excellent how-to, I want to say: I did it already!

I just spent 3 hours trying to remove the parcel shelf fitted with the electric sunblind. There are 2 reasons I want to do so:
1) The motor of the sunblind is stuck and a tug on the blind or hitting the motor with a hammer didn't do it
2) I want to locate the plug for the PDC sounder.

I removed the rear seat cushions, pulled the back seats forward, removed the the plastic surrounding covering the c pillars, removed the sound proffing foam and clips behind the seat, undid the screwholding the shelf to the roof of the boot in the middle).

I can then pull the shelf up and towards me, 1 or 2 inches, not more, it then gets stuck, blocked by seat belt rolls. No matter how hard I try to pull it up to pass the fasteners, it is not enough.

The weird thing is that I fitted it myself… well it also took me 3 hours (for the same reason) to fit it once the original parcel shelf (without electric sunblind) was removed.

Any idea or suggestion about what I do wrong/forgot/missed in the how-to's that prevent me from removing it?

When pushing in you have something to force against and the risk of damaging it is small. when removing you are reluctant to damage anything and are not pulling hard enough. Also when pushing in the window acted as a brace and slightly flexed the shelf but it will not be doing that when removing.

[Greeners]

They are a pain to get out...you need to angle it and twist in almost one movement, but be careful you don't knock the HRW connections off.

The trouble is the blind makes the shelf very rigid

[W953 BJX]

I am having similar problems, except some numpty (me) left the blind parked up when I sold the switch so now I am trying to work out which wires I need to bridge to make it park down out the way so I can struggle to get it out of the car! Any ideas anyone?

[magellan]

Hi Greeners,

I did it: I manage to remove the parcel shelf and actually knocked a connector off the rear window (any suggestion to fix it? A glu that let the current flow?)

Anyway, once the shelf removed, no matter how I hit the motor, it was not working. I decided to remove the motor (3 screws keeping it assembled to the shelf and 1 screw at the axis).

I opened the flat part of the motor (3 torx screws) and removed the black plate which actually holds the axis of one gear in the motor. That wheel was actually misaligned. I aligned it so that its axis goes back into the hole of the black plate.Closed the motor.

The motor now works again, I just have to refit it onto the parcel shelf. I will post some pictures tomorrow to illustrate what I did.

I will post as well a picture of the connector I found under the parcel shelf. I wonder if it can be for the parking sensor sounder... the two wires sseems to be red/brown and red/green or something of this kind, not sure as the light was bad… which check again tomorrow.

[Greeners]

You can buy conductive epoxy resin, but I managed to repair it with a soldering iron.

That connector is the sounder,it sits on a small bracket on the metal shelf

[Devilish]

Originally Posted by W953 BJX

I am having similar problems, except some numpty (me) left the blind parked up when I sold the switch so now I am trying to work out which wires I need to bridge to make it park down out the way so I can struggle to get it out of the car! Any ideas anyone?

You only have to bridge connections when using a switch, doing it by hand you can simply swap the wires over with your hands, this is what the switch cannot do, yo have to swap the wires over for it (bridging or crossing over the wires for it).

Some motors move forward and backwards like the sunblind or an electric antenna, these motors do NOT have a live wire and and an earth wire. If you pass a current through the motor one way it will go forward (up), and if you pass a current through it the other way it will go backwards (down) This is reversing the polarity
(the + and -)

All the sunblind switch does is reverse the polarity of the wires to the motor (changing the direction of the current)

To do this by hand without the switch is easy, I will explain as simple as I can

Do NOT think of the two wires from the motor as a live and an earth.

This is what you do

Take a wire from the sunblind motor in each hand connect one hand to live and one to earth, if the blind does not go down that means it is the UP current direction.

Simply swap the wires over and connect the same hands to live and earth again, and the sunblind will go down.

If you swap the wires over again the blind wil go back up, swap them again and it will go down an so on, and so on