Hi Steve,
I'm sure theres a way to manually close and open the roof however I haven't tried it.
I believe the issue is related to the switches inside the latching mechanism that are !Removed! - the motor has rapidly degraded in speed to open/close as well.
It's summer and my roof is ironically unusable; ran a vcds to figure whats wrong and still lost.
Has anyone one else come across / solved this issue with their convertible before?