Leaky sunroof

I think that there are drain tubes in each of the corners of the sunroof rail. Make sure that the drains are not blocked by poking a long piece of electrical wire until it comes out the bottom underneath the car.

"Ray O" wrote in news:Baidnauhhpde54DanZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

That would be my suspicion as well. Those tubes are often plugged from undercoating, mud, or collision damage.

And use stranded electrical wire; it's more flexible and less apt to poke holes in the hoses.

Use compressed air first before you go poking around. Most plugs are usually near the bottom, gravity being the reason and road grime helping seal it off.

It matters a LOT. After market SRs do not have the metal drain gutters built into the roof, like OEM SRs. After market SRs uses the seal itself, it has built in drain tubes to channel away the water to the "A" pillar.

If a OEM SR leaks it is probably because the seal deteriorated and needs to be replaced, since the leak is most likely where the glass contacts the seal, not where the seal meets the metal roof.

Place a piece of material between the glass and the seal. If you can pull it free, the seal should be replaced.

mike

Use Low Pressure Air Only!! - use a regulator, and do not go over around 20 PSI. They use un-reinforced rubber hose for the drains. Too much pressure will burst them wherever the weakest spot is, like inside the door pillars. Or pop the hose off the splice at the sunroof gasket.

Then you have a much bigger problem on your hands, since you have to drop the headliner to reattach the hoses, or repair or replace one or more of the drain hoses, or replace the whole gasket around the sunroof if they blow right at the molded-on hose stubs where you can't fix it...

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