Anyone done sunroof felts/seals?
 

Started on this today. The seals weren't leaking, but what was there was badly cracked and brittle.

The front was a PITA!! The side felts were relatively straight forward.

Didn't even attempt the rear as I have no way to get to it. The manuals say "remove headliner" as a first step. No tips, nothing.

Anyway, problem is, now the roof won't close. The felts are WAY to fat and tight. Jams up with about a 3" gap. Am thinking maybe I should loosen the felt holder and run the roof and let it jam the felts in and "make its own room", but then the felts will just spring back out when I open the roof to tighten the screws.

Anyone run into this and have suggestions, hints, etc.??

Hmm. This was fairly easy on the W124 once we figured out how to get them in properly.

I suspect you need to pull the front out again and start it over -- it has to go into the corners properly, and that is sometimes a pain.

I would guess that you don't have it completely compressed into the slot -- it's been a couple years since I put it in and I don't remember exactly, only that it took a while for us to get the front part in correctly -- several tries, I think.

Peter

My sunroof would not close either, I banged the felt with a hammer till the roof closed properly, wood one preferred.

For the rubber seals soak them in water with soap, 50/50, so it slips in.

For the backside seal you have to take out the sunroof.

That's what I thought. Will try it.

As for the rubber, I got it in, it just was a PITA.

Didn't do the rear as removal of the sunroof appears to be a MAJOR PITA! Removed one sunroof on a junkyard car, but I wasn't concerned with the headiner or other frivolities at the time.

Had a 1984 VW Scirocco with sunroof (the second of the only three cars I've ever purchased new). Friday night on the start of a Memorial day weekend the sunroof was SUCKED OUT of the roof driving up the freeway to go to Ft. Bragg for a weekend of abalone diving. Had cables and such dangling in the drivers compartment. Luckily it wasn't raining, but it was foggy (as the north Cali coast is most of the time).

Had to turn around, go home, tarp the roof, then pack the bike (Laverda 1000) and head back up the coast, arriving at camp at 3am. Almost drowned the next day, but got a good load of abalone.

VW fixed it for free under warrantee (after I ranted and raved like a lunatic).

Where the heck did you stow your dive gear on your Laverda? I've got a couple of pretty hysterical mental pictures of that set-up!

Yikes!
I had a friend lose the sunroof in a similar fashion, though it was out of his POS Pontiac Lemans hatchback... He was delivering pizza in a snowstorm and took a shortcut across a highway when *pop* no more sunroof! Some people got cold pizza that night!

I've wondered about that felt myself- the new stuff sure looks like it would be a tighter fit... but I havent got any leaks just yet...

good luck!