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Hi, I am able to remove the sunroof glass but the sunroof is still stuck at tilt position. I am going to clear the area in and around the track.Awesome!
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Hi, I am able to remove the sunroof glass but the sunroof is still stuck at tilt position. I am going to clear the area in and around the track.Awesome!
@baghloli123 Clean out all of that debris from the tracks. I tape a small piece of 1/4"dia tubing to the end of my shopvac to get in these rails a lot. Even just using some type of pick, flathead, or end of a zip tie would work. Sunroofs are designed to open back up when they sense an obstruction so it won't catch a body part in them.
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I'm afraid it won't be easy to fix it. I finished repairing the sunroof on my 100. It turned out that one of the metal tubes through which plastic cables pass was rusty. The rust effectively blocks the plastic cable from sliding.Any suggestion, how to proceed. I couldnt find any debris in the areas which are visible to eye.
I'm afraid it won't be easy to fix it. I finished repairing the sunroof on my 100. It turned out that one of the metal tubes through which plastic cables pass was rusty. The rust effectively blocks the plastic cable from sliding.
The only solution was to replace the metal tube with a new one, because there was a grater inside (walls damaged by rust). In addition, the plastic cable had to be replaced because it was damaged (worn out) during removal from the tube.
Why am I writing about this? Because I can see the same color you have on the plastic cables.
Compare the color of a healthy (left) cable and a rusty (right) cable.
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Below what the metal tubes look like - guides.
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If you don't want to disassemble whole sunroof and the engine works as it would, but stops after a while, you can try to disassemble only the mechanism. It is connected together with the control computer. After disassembling it, you can connect the cables directly to the engine and set the sunroof in the desired position.
Of course, it's best to disassemble the mechanizm first, unscrew the computer and mount the engine itself. Below is what it looks like
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It's hard to say, but you should know that the plastic cables are blocked by the motorized mechanism and the glass frame is blocked by this. Carriage which moves the glass frame is permanently attached to the plastic cables and as far as I know is not possible to disconnect it.if the actuating cables are no longer moving properly, is there a way to disconnect them from the glass frame mechanism so you can at least move the mechanism by hand and close the thing up until the summer, maybe with some tape to hold it shut?
Of course you can remove the motor (mechanism), which I wrote about above. It's relatively easy to do, just unscrew two screws and pull down. On the rear side there is a latch plate that needs to be folded back.well if it's not possible to disconnect them at the sunroof, how about at the motor? You can perhaps yank them harder by hand from the top than to push them with the motor.