309 sunroof?

Can someone explain how it works?

I mean, it deflates and inflates itself with no apparent powersource or anything!

I think it's rather clever!

Martin

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Martin John Brindle
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A deflatable sunroof? I've never seen one of those!

My 305 sunroof has the motor in the boot, if that's any help....

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Chris B

It's all done by vacuum, obviously. I think the tank is under the scuttle next to the wiper motor, but I'm not sure. It gets its vacuum from the servo pipe. I think it's designed to open and close five times with the engine off. There's a couple of valves operated by the sunroof handle which allow a vacuum in the seal to allow opening of the sunroof, or open the seal to the atmosphere when the handle is closed to seal the sunroof. Quite a clever design really and quite reliable too. I believe it was only fitted to the 309.

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Nigel

works from vacuum pressure via the inlet manifold.

Reply to
Piggy

Wow, I never knew that. My 305 has air vents which open and close using air pressure. I didn't know the 309 had a sunroof like it! Might have to look into that system, as various parts of my motor-driven sunroof system keep breaking.

Chris.

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Chris B

fitted to the 309.

My 1986 205 Gti had this as well. I don't know if it was standard on

205's, or if this was an option.

I had a 309 as well, and it's was definatly the same type of sunroof.

Reply to
Woof

only fitted to the 309.

Got one on my 205 Dturbo! My old 309 SRi had it as well. Greta nvention

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Carl Gibbs

Whaa! I want one now!

Methinks I might be off to the scrappy... ;)

Chris

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Chris B

I didn't know that the 205 had it as well, but I'm not really surprised. It WAS a good sunroof, simple and reliable.

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Nigel

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