Thread: Sunroof Rust

Gee Ron your Range Rover just keeps wanting you to spend money on it.
I cant believe all the things that have just cropped up at you.

Originally Posted by LoadedDisco

Gee Ron your Range Rover just keeps wanting you to spend money on it.
I cant believe all the things that have just cropped up at you.

(a) It does

(b) neither can I.

Ron

Maybe its time to kiss that rangy goodbye. I know where you can get a good disco , ive always admired those countys

Originally Posted by Mick-Kelly

Maybe its time to kiss that rangy goodbye. I know where you can get a good disco , ive always admired those countys

Yours?

Where the heck is Narangba?

With what I've spent, I think the P38A is becoming a keeper. I still have to replace the heater core (very many hundreds of dollars for the part and a huge amount of work).

Actually, the idea of stripping it and selling it for parts is becoming more attractive.

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

I pulled the sunroof out of the P38A today to replace the broken parts in the mechanism and found the steel frame around the glass was rusted away in one spot, right in the centre at the rear edge.

The steel window frame has a sealing rubber around the edge. Water has seeped in at the join at the rear of the window and wicked along the steel edge over which the seal is pushed.

Yours too ??
I have a seal ready to fit as mine is lifting at the centre rear. I originally assumed the seal itself had a metal insert which was corroding & lifting the seal. When I had a closer look, I found it wasn't the seal rusting but the metal strip inserted into the glass panel like yours . It was the rust growing & pushing the seal upwards.

I removed as much of the seal as possible with the glass in place & gave the strip a soaking with WD40 to slow down anymore corrosion.

I'll be removing the glass panel soon to treat the rust properly & hopefully replace the missing metal section.


Ron, I have the new seal sitting at home if you want to do yours this weekend. I'll get another one later on for mine. Actually, I can even drop it off for you on the way back from Bathurst tomorrow morning.

Isn't this a problem with all vehicles with sunroofs?

Originally Posted by dobbo

Isn't this a problem with all vehicles with sunroofs?

I can't say I've noticed the same problem on my '88 RR.

Are you trying to tell me that other cars have the same problems as a P38a ?
I thought they only had unique problems .

Originally Posted by p38arover

Yours?

Where the heck is Narangba?

With what I've spent, I think the P38A is becoming a keeper. I still have to replace the heater core (very many hundreds of dollars for the part and a huge amount of work).

Actually, the idea of stripping it and selling it for parts is becoming more attractive.

Ron

Ron if you keep it how much money are you going to have to spend on the thing over the next few years? Sometimes it is just better to cut your losses. I know from where I am it is easy to say, but I hate to think how much money you are going to have to keep pouring into the thing.

And I hate to see a fellow Landie owner having such a bad run.