Thread: Anyone know anything about my Vermuelen Hollandia BV sunroof (D1)?

Webasto is the brand used by LR - at least in my P38A.

According to Prestige Sunroofs Webasto is the new name for the Vermeulen brand, and they still make the same Hollandia models. Same types.

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!