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[mesean13]

I was late for work today so I decided to take the Autobahn. I was cruising against maybe a 20-30 mph headwind going around 100mph with the heater on and all my windows up when I started to hear more wind noise and feel a cold draft. I thought I had left the rear hatch open when I looked up and saw the sunroof glass seperating from the frame in the front by about a centimeter.
I am glad it didn't fly off into the car behind me. Anyone else had this happen? How did you fix it? WTF?

[gustav129]

Other thread about this

This thread was only halfway down the page.

Anyways, before everybody tells you duck tape and super glue. It DOES NOT work. You can read the thread all the way through to see what I did over a year ago and have not had any problem since.

Duct Tape is not water proof. As soon as it rains on the roof, the duct tape will peel off real fast. The super glue gets brittle and break as the car flexes. I had to do this method a couple times in a week before I did something different.

What I ended up doing is using silicon sealer on mine. It got to the point that it peeled half way back and would raise about an inch and a half while driving. I put a bead of silicon sealer in between the metal ring and the gals and put them together with a C-clamp. then I put a bead of silicon sealer around the metal edge in the inside and smoothed it out with my finger. Kinda like sealing something inside a bathroom or something.

One important thing, unless you plan on having Sunny days for a while, don't chance it and leave the sunroof inside. If the silicon get's wet within 24 hours, the moisture will break down the silicone.

[warder]

If youre really ghetto like me you can drive fast with a tube of amazing goop and put it on while the wind is keeping the glass up, it works alot better than super glue. I definitally recommend what he said though.

[DEIVIONCRX]

yep happend to me i did a FAQ on it

http://www.redpepper..._Pop-up_Sunroof

[mordantly]

[One important thing, unless you plan on having Sunny days for a while, don't chance it and leave the sunroof inside. If the silicon get's wet within 24 hours, the moisture will break down the silicone.

100% silicone caulk is practically impervious after an hour or so (skin point) to mild pressure water.. like if you caulked arround your winshield rain would do nothing to the curing silicone provided it wasn't a fire hose blast (El Nino style or snow). Latex plus silicone is more resiliant than straight latex but not as good as 100%. Being a plumber, painter, etc i get many situations/conditions to make repairs.