Thread: I HATE SUNROOFS!!!

Originally Posted by mike 90 RR

So your not specifying that it's a blocked drain line?
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Cheers
Mike

No - that I can't be specific about where the drains are.

John

Okay the sunroof is a bigger bastard than I thought...I just pulled up the carpets to see how much water there is and the front ones are soaked That stuff under the carpet is like a sponge that just retains water for ages...GOOD DESIGN GUYS!! Anyway it looks like they may have gotten wet before because there is a bit of surface rust starting to form which I guess I'll have to deal with. I've got it sitting now with the carpets propped up and doors open in the garage to dry. I might as well put a sign on it saying "spiders come nest in me now I'm open for business" but I'd prefer spiders to floor rust. That's for another thread that one

I can't see any drain holes but I'll have a closer look. Don't have a compressor though.

Hey Ben
The roof was installed by previous owner or the dealer but all the papers are in the handover folder I gave you!
It never leaked b4 but I seldomly opened it as I knew one day it would.
See if the glass has twisted(rare) and does not form a perfect seal now?
It all looks pretty clean up there, just like when I handed my beloved car over!

To dry the car out, leave it in the sun or put a heater inside but the floor surface rust is a mystery!

Look after it mate, it's a goody!

PS! I don't hang out here anymore, too many beardie weirdies!
Just email me!
Thanks bud!

I remember you saying how you didn't use it too much but even if you did use it I'm sure you would have kept a very close eye on it so the rust is a mystery too. I'm thinking it might have even leaked already on my watch a bit but I didn't realize a while ago and it's been damp for somewhere around six to eight months maybe...surely if it had been damp for any longer than that the rust would be more severe anyway? I did notice a bit of a mark on the inside of the window that looked like something had leaked down it once but the whole thing was dry so I just brushed it off but in hindsight I didn't think to check the carpets then either...might have leaked some.

I'm taking it somewhere to get the sunroof serviced (yes apparently sunroof places do that) which isn't going to cost much and they think they can clean any blocked drains from the outside without taking the roof lining off, and apparently the also check and lubricate all the other bits up there which isn't a bad thing and they know the sunroof so I'm happy to pay them a little bit of money to do that.

I'm wondering if the roof will dry out by itself or if I need to take that off too someday soon and see if there is any rust on it too from the inside? The roof doesn't feel damp at all anymore but I've never seen inside it so I don't know if it would hold water in any silly places.

What would you do??

I took mine today to get checked out and the guy said the Hollandia 300 (which mine is) doesn't actually have drain plugs/pipes coming off the sunroof, it just seals on the outside. What's more he ran the hose over it and didn't see any types of leaks.

He said that it might be some seal in the middle of the front of the sunroof and to get to that and change it he would have to drop the head lining and that would end up costing about $300 which still isn't a tonne for that job it's actually pretty reasonable but he wasn't even sure that would be the problem. He just said that is the place to start and it would "eliminate" that part.

The thing that gets me is that it only leaked, quite suddenly mind you, when I opened the sunroof and it still had water sitting on it from the night before. Some water went into the channels and into the mechanism and dribbled out of the thin roof lining near the front passenger corner. It had never leaked before this but I knew I had let the water in myself so I let that one go and let it dry and thought it'd be okay.

Then the next day we had a rain storm and I got in the car and all of a sudden the roof was soaked at that same spot and dripping everywhere in the car! Not sure how this could have just suddenly happened. It has never even hinted at leaking before through the sunroof and all of a sudden this. Kind of makes me think I just didn't close it properly.

Anyway today at the sunroof place the guy ran the hose over it and nothing leaked at all. Then he opened it up himself with water still sitting on the roof and it dribbled in through the roof lining as it rolled off the glass the same way it had done for me and he explained how this was just from water getting in the mechanism and that's what would happen, but obviously this wasn't a leak it was just water from the roof.

So I don't know whether or not to take it in to get them to check it out, probably couldn't hurt, but I don't have money to burn on a sunroof.

Some water has obviously got under the floors in the front seats before because I spent yesterday afternoon with my friend scraping out and treating some rust spots under there...nothing major though (see thread in Disco 1 forum).

So I'm not sure what to do...I sure would hate for it to leak again!

Found a solution that works for me. New disco with no sunroof it's a win win situation lol