Thread: Are sunroofs in Australia going out of fashion

Originally Posted by Redback

In a Defender, wouldn't there be enough airflow in a Defender from the gaps in the seals

Interesting you say that...

On Emmas 90, if the other doors etc are closed it take s a reasonable pull to close the door properly and get a full "latch"..

With the sun hatch or a window down a little the doors close easily..

We've washed the vehicle with a high pressure spray quite a few times now (she washes her 90 at least 10:1 against the Disco ) and don't get water in it anywhere...

Originally Posted by Tombie

and don't get water in it anywhere...

in 1 side and out the other

My Vogue is sunroof equipped. I am pretty sure that all of that model in Australia came that way. By preference I wouldn't have it, it is very rarely opened.

Before I bought the Vogue I was looking at TDV8 Sports. They all come with a sunroof, which is no good for me as it takes too much headroom. A Sport with no sunroof is OK, the sunroof versions have my head hard up against the roof.

I certainly would not option one, or get one fitted to a car. Although I would like a Smokey and the Bandit style TransAm with T tops.

Our '97 D1 has a tinted electric factory sunroof with shade slide which has never leaked or rusted & is very useful for transporting 6'-8' fishing rods
Steve

Originally Posted by Eevo

we should put a tax on it

Its been done before. In 1695 King William III imposed a window tax resulting in many historic properties bricking up windows to save on tax. You can still find succedant examples of it in the different tax levels of Defenders and Discos in the UK with rear windows. The D4 and 110 Defender commercial variants don't have glass between the "C" and "D" pillars to attract less tax.

I have a sunroof in my RRc and wish I never swapped the roof for the sunroof one, it's impossible not to have it leak. In a roll over, once the glass roof shatters (as JD suggests) the roof loses strength and your body parts risk serious injury or amputation if they get trapped between the road and remains of the roof.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Interesting you say that...

On Emmas 90, if the other doors etc are closed it take s a reasonable pull to close the door properly and get a full "latch"..

With the sun hatch or a window down a little the doors close easily..

We've washed the vehicle with a high pressure spray quite a few times now (she washes her 90 at least 10:1 against the Disco ) and don't get water in it anywhere...

It must be broken.

We had a sunroof in the D1 which was good for starry night cruising or listening to the birds in a rainforest.
However, it died when we were out in The Simpson. The air-con pulley jammed so we removed the belt, so without air-con stupid me decided we would be cooler if we drove with the sunroof open. We pulled up at Innamincka on a dusty day and one of the runners in the sunroof jammed because of the dust and we couldn't close it. Eventually got it closed manually and carried on.
Back home we found a piece had broken in the slide so it couldn't be repaired, only replaced, which was going to be expensive, so we just left it closed until we sold the vehicle.
Apparently they often leak too, although ours didn't.
So, I'd rather not have one. If I wanted to be out in the sun I'd ride a bicycle (shock, horror!).

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I have a sunroof in my RRc and wish I never swapped the roof for the sunroof one, it's impossible not to have it leak. In a roll over, once the glass roof shatters (as JD suggests) the roof loses strength and your body parts risk serious injury or amputation if they get trapped between the road and remains of the roof.

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,,