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Roof lowered whilst in bed

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Arrived at campsite in S. W. France at 19.10, after an 8 hour journey due to a french union blocking the peage near Nimes causing a 3 hour delay. Had something to eat, then a gin & tonic with friends and retired to campervan.

Elevated the roof, as it was going up the hydraulic pump made a strange noise, thought nothing of it as it has always has been a bit noisy. Got into bed (top bunk) two hours later stretched my arms out and hit the roof. The roof had collapsed trapping me in the bed, my wife managed to wriggle free first then it was my turn. It took me about 5 minutes to wriggle free.

We could not push up the roof manually, but it did raise using the central control panel.
I then wedged the roof up using my extendable hiking stick.
We lowered, raised and lowered the roof after 4 nights using the panel and everything seemed OK roof locked down. Quite a frightening experience.

We had no warning audible or otherwise that the roof had come down.
Anyone had a similar experience?
How much is a new pump?
How do you remove the head lining to get at pump?
Or does it need bleeding and new fluid?

This is a 2006 Cali with no audible warning when roof drops.
 
Arrived at campsite in S. W. France at 19.10, after an 8 hour journey due to a french union blocking the peage near Nimes causing a 3 hour delay. Had something to eat, then a gin & tonic with friends and retired to campervan.

Elevated the roof, as it was going up the hydraulic pump made a strange noise, thought nothing of it as it has always has been a bit noisy. Got into bed (top bunk) two hours later stretched my arms out and hit the roof. The roof had collapsed trapping me in the bed, my wife managed to wriggle free first then it was my turn. It took me about 5 minutes to wriggle free.

We could not push up the roof manually, but it did raise using the central control panel.
I then wedged the roof up using my extendable hiking stick.
We lowered, raised and lowered the roof after 4 nights using the panel and everything seemed OK roof locked down. Quite a frightening experience.

We had no warning audible or otherwise that the roof had come down.
Anyone had a similar experience?
How much is a new pump?
How do you remove the head lining to get at pump?
Or does it need bleeding and new fluid?

This is a 2006 Cali with no audible warning when roof drops.
All all I can think of is that you didn't hold the button in long enough when raising the roof - i.e. hold down until motor stops that god awful whining and shuts off after the roof mechanism has locked out?
 
Sounds like a Stephen King book.
bit worrying take a mobile to bed
 
You could try and reproduce it during the day by releasing the button before the tick appears in the display confirming the roof is up.
 
You could try and reproduce it during the day by releasing the button before the tick appears in the display confirming the roof is up.
May be different on earlier models but on my T5.1 (2011) you keep the button depressed until the motor stops (automatically) rather than rely on the display. Good suggestion to test the theory though Les.
 
I would also double check that the screw is tight to the manually emergency lower function.
 
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