If you have a sunroof – Chances are it will go bad one day or the other depending upon how often you open the sunroof. This job is very time consuming but worth saving the money. You are looking to spend 5-6 hours with normal tools. The sunroof repair kit can be purchased for $40-$75 depending upon where you shop.
Removing the Interior Pieces:
You can start off by removing the A, B and C Pillars, sun visors, rear view mirror, all the interior holding bars and ofcourse the headliner.
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Unbolting the Sunroof:
Unbolt the sunroof track from the car. This involves removing all the bolts that are holding the sunroof assembly.
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Removing Sunroof glass from the track:
The next pic shows the bolts that need to be loosened to remove the glass from the track. There are plastic covers that need to be removed that hid the bolts. This goes for both sides.
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Sliding the Broken Tracks off:
There are brass fittings at the end of the track that need to be removed in order to slide the broken tracks off. Chances are if your sunroof doesn't move properly, your tracks my look like this…
The first of the 3 pics show that damaged tracks. The cables are disconnected from them. The last pic shows the old against the new.
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Putting it back together:
When we removed the old tracks , the cables were still stuck inside of their guides. We used the new cables to push them out. There is much more to be explained on this part of the job because after the new tracks go in, you will need to put the track back up into the car (with the sunroof glass bolted back onto the tracks) to see if the glass is flush with the roof when in closed position. Befroe this is done, everything will need to be in position as if the sunroof is closed. We must have pulled the sunroof out like 10 times to get the sunroof's height correct.
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