Thread: Are sunroofs in Australia going out of fashion

Originally Posted by Disco Muppet

Oh and let's face it, we drive land rovers. In the event of a roll over, the sunroof is the least of your worries....

those in defenders need to worry about falling though the gaps in the panels.

And here I was thinking it was an escape hatch.

I have a premonition!

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

wow,
all those cars, and all those sunroofs,
thats a lot of amputations just waiting to happen!!
You'd think the gov would do something,,

I rolled my RRc in 2001. While the vehicle was skidding along the road upside down, my left arm had lost grip of the wheel and must have been hanging on the roof lining where the sun roof would be (you could tell by the blood stains from the cuts on my hands from the all the shattered glass). I also had gravel rash from my right shoulder to wrist.

If there was a sunroof there I would surely have suffered serious hand injuries or worse.

Still it is just my opinion that I'd never again buy a vehicle with a hole in the roof.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I rolled my RRc in 2001. While the vehicle was skidding along the road upside down, my left arm had lost grip of the wheel and must have been hanging on the roof lining where the sun roof would be (you could tell by the blood stains from the cuts on my hands from the all the shattered glass). I also had gravel rash from my right shoulder to wrist.

If there was a sunroof there I would surely have suffered serious hand injuries or worse.

Still it is just my opinion that I'd never again buy a vehicle with a hole in the roof.

i hope you never put your window down

Originally Posted by Eevo

i hope you never put your window down

If you put the window down the Air Cond doesn't work!

But unfortunately the windows on the driver's side all smashed and my arm left little lumps of flesh on the road. (tiny lumps gravel erupted from my arm for years afterwards.)

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

tiny lumps gravel erupted from my arm for years afterwards.

i always thought u were a bit rough.

...by this rationale we shouldn't buy vehicles with any windows at all!
hmm, i suggest there's equal if not better (two sides) chance you'd be sliding on the side in a roll over!

I wouldn't have chosen a sun hatch if my puma landy hadn't come with one when I spotted him under the gum tree waiting for me to take him home. Not because of safety, but because of heat. But with a layer of 99%UV tint, it's all ok.

...I've also grown to like it for the expulsion of hot air (pun intended), but above all it's nice to have it open when roving slowly along, down the beach or through the bush, on a beautiful spring or early summer's day. It's nice to see the rain above too.