Part of the seal on my sunroof is sagging down and therefore leaves a gap when it closes and air rushes in. Does anyone know if you have to remove the glass to change the seal? Anyone attempt this before? A new seal is not expensive but not sure how big a deal replacing it might be.
Sunroof gasket (glass seal) replace - anyone do this before?
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Should be pretty easy. There is black plastic trim that you have to remove around the sunroof. Be gentle with it. That will expose 4 nuts that you take off. Then you just pop out the glass and replace the gasket. The gasket has sealer already in it, so no need to buy gasket sealer or anything like that.
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Note that it has definite forward facing and backward facing orientation. I used a hard plastic scraper to remove old glue/gasket residue from the glass panel before installing the new gasket (the wrong way around it turned out 
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Thanks, much! Any ideas for how to potentially just DIY a fix without having to replace the whole thing? This does not seem too tough but I am not handy/mechanical, per se.
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Depends how much it’s sagging … you could try a gasket/rubber rejuvenator but that just makes the rubber more supple, not really shrink it … you could seal with silicon or even 3M’s 5200 but that’s just creating a bigger challenge down the road … short answer = dust off the screwdriver and have at it, surely it’s going to rain in Atlanta at some stage 
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Thank you. And btw, I just moved to San Diego where I think it literally will never rain. But gonna see what we can do.Depends how much it’s sagging … you could try a gasket/rubber rejuvenator but that just makes the rubber more supple, not really shrink it … you could seal with silicon or even 3M’s 5200 but that’s just creating a bigger challenge down the road … short answer = dust off the screwdriver and have at it, surely it’s going to rain in Atlanta at some stage
Since nobody has mentioned this here, while the rubber gasket is a very easy replacement, if the sunroof is leaking through the seam in the plastic border of the glass, where the seam is in the back middle, that needs a dab of silicone. That plastic surround is not available separately as far as I know.
