cAN ANYONE TELL ME HOW TO FILL UP THE FLUID RESERVOIR ON MY HOOD PLEASE AND SHOULD IT BE DONE WITH THE ROOF UP OR DOWN :stupid:

Did you ever find how to top up your hood and whether it has to be up or down? I am in exactly the same position and would welcome any help!! :rockon:

Appologies for resurrecting this two year old thread... I'm having the exact same issue after finding out that my power hood reservoir leaked itself empty.

From what I can tell, it appears to be some kind of oil... :headscrat

hey, yeah in the same problem, pump leaked itself dry and wondering whether you sorted ur problem??? desperate to get the automatic roof working before the summer comes lol. xx

Power hood? Like it lifts mechanically/pneumatically? Wow... lazy lazy lazy.

Ok so for anyone who hasn't managed to get the hood working I spent 6 hours working on the car on monday and finally got the power hood working. I'm leaving this reply as i'm sure there are other people out there like me who found no information anywhere (including my trusty haynes manual!) as to how to fill the pump and get the hood working.

The pump along with reservoir is located (in my rover 216 k reg) on the left hand side of the boot. I took the whole thing off by removing the nuts and bolts and there is a screw/nut looking thing or whatever you wanna call it on the side about half way down (just about the reservoir). Remove this then fill with fluid (mine came with it the car when i bought it but i assume its something you can pick quite easily from halfords or something), i had to fill the reservoir then hold the button to fill the pipes (as they were empty) then refill the reservoir again. You will have to hold down the button for a while to get the fluid through all the pipes, but after doing this it should work.

Hope that help.

Mazz x

Nice one!
Unfortunately I don't know which grade of hydraulic oil to fill my resorvoir up with, would you be able to tell me the details of yours?

Many thanks,

Richard.

for the hood shell tellus 37 oil
i hope this information is usefull

You can put ShellTELLUS Oil 32 in hood pump(Confirmed by shell office malta37 OUT OF STOCK)

heelo im going to buy a rover 1994 cabriolet but i dont know
anything about this car is 1.6 rover engin what do you thing please help ??

a and is 110 000 miles on the clok and it has the history of the car an benn servis from new in rover

Never in my life have I heard of a power hood...

I seriously thought this was a joke...