e34 Touring: Sunroof...please don't die!

[Hozay]

Gday all!:)

The twin sunroof on my e34 touring has a few issues. It started by not closing down from the tilt position (although both roofs were still sliding OK. A few days later, the front roof still wont close from the tilt position...but it's now also having a really hard time sliding, and there are a few nasty noises that have come with that too:(

Is this fixable? I'm dreading needing to fork out some serious loot for this repair!

If anyone can give me any sort of feedback regarding this I would really appreciate it!

Thanks

[Paul in NZ]

clean and lube.....

[attack eagle]

yeah, look for trash in the rails.

[bad_manners_god]

yeah, look for trash in the rails.

If that doesnt work, you have to take out your headliner and lube the motors. Mine are becoming rather sluggish also and the outer seals leak into the car under extremely heavy rain or the automated car washs.

[repenttokyo]

If that doesnt work, you have to take out your headliner and lube the motors. Mine are becoming rather sluggish also and the outer seals leak into the car under extremely heavy rain or the automated car washs.


might not be the outer seals, might be the drains, check and see if they are clogged with a piece of wire.

[Paul in NZ]

and if you want your paint to last dont go to car wash's

[Hozay]

Thanks to everybody for replying so quickly!

I'm going to do as suggested...clean and lube. This makes sense as the motor seems to be working OK.

I've also booked the car in to my local Webasto sunroof expert...so if worse come to worse, I'll get the sucker fixed! Can't live without them twin babies...it's a major reason I went for the touring over the sedan!

I'll post up once it's working again.

Thanks again!

[bad_manners_god]

might not be the outer seals, might be the drains, check and see if they are clogged with a piece of wire.

I know my front right drain is blocked from the bottom but I don't know where it is to drill it out

[Hozay]

So it's been a few weeks now and the roof has pretty much died. It just went crunch after a few attempts at diagnosing the issue. According to my local sunroof techs, I'm gonna need a bunch of bits brought into Australia from Germany, so in total I'm looking at total cost to repair of about $1500 aud (or about $1250 usd), with half going on the parts and half on the work.

If I didn't love the car, and especially those twin panels, I don't think I'd bother with the expense. But, I just have to do it! Can't live my life knowing I've got a trick roof I can't enjoy.

If anyone's interested, I'll post the result once the work has been done. I think I'm looking at a few weeks before the parts arrive, but hopefully it's sooner rather than later.

[rharold51]

Curious if you ever got your sun roof repaired with out breaking you as I am having problems too. and then some. So, just checking. Robert, Atlanta Georgia!

[shogun]

here is a good repair instruction from a German forum, lots of pics, 22 pages

http://www.e34-welt.de/tips_tricks/dshd.pdf

[rharold51]

Shogun, Is there a way to get this in english as I cannot read German? This is a very expensive sunroof to repair and I am thinking about tack welding closed? Then repaint. Not sure right now as I got such a deal on this car and it is in remarkable condition except for the sun roof issue. Thanks Robert, Atlanta, Georgia

[Paul in NZ]

copy and paste the whole thing and translate?

[shogun]

use google translate for that. But the pics show it all anyway
22 pages
http://www.e34-welt.de/tips_tricks/dshd.pdf