Yammer5
31-10-2008, 19:19
First post!
Howdy all
Im in a bit of a pickle, my 5 is one of the unlucky ones that has an electric sunroof, it has had a leak since a bought the car and rust has been falling out, i decided to take out the sunroof completley and see how bad things were.
little did i know that an electric sunroof is a 4inch deep box that is as wide and as long as the roof of the car! its massive, and is bracketed to all 6 pillars.
Anyway, me and mr angel grinder got to work and out it came, quite nicely actually glass and all as one piece.
I found that the sunroof was really rusty but the car roof wasnt that bad.
I was now expecting to just treat any rust and then get a sheet of metal and weld or metal glue it under the sunroof hole and fill it and that would be that.
But....when they install an electric sunroof it seems they remove any additional strenghening bits and bobs that a normal 5 has, so now my roof is just like a sheet of tin foil its so thin.
It now sags down a little on its own, if i stuck another piece of metal under it to fill the sunroof hole it would just sag down even more, and thats just the aesthetics it would be a death trap if the car ever rolled.
Has anyone ever stripped down a R5 without a sunroof? do they have some sort of metal strenghening beams or something?
And do you think they are something i can get hold of?
or does anyone ave any other ideas of what i could do to strengthen the roof?
Thanks in advance for any help
Jay
Howdy all
Im in a bit of a pickle, my 5 is one of the unlucky ones that has an electric sunroof, it has had a leak since a bought the car and rust has been falling out, i decided to take out the sunroof completley and see how bad things were.
little did i know that an electric sunroof is a 4inch deep box that is as wide and as long as the roof of the car! its massive, and is bracketed to all 6 pillars.
Anyway, me and mr angel grinder got to work and out it came, quite nicely actually glass and all as one piece.
I found that the sunroof was really rusty but the car roof wasnt that bad.
I was now expecting to just treat any rust and then get a sheet of metal and weld or metal glue it under the sunroof hole and fill it and that would be that.
But....when they install an electric sunroof it seems they remove any additional strenghening bits and bobs that a normal 5 has, so now my roof is just like a sheet of tin foil its so thin.
It now sags down a little on its own, if i stuck another piece of metal under it to fill the sunroof hole it would just sag down even more, and thats just the aesthetics it would be a death trap if the car ever rolled.
Has anyone ever stripped down a R5 without a sunroof? do they have some sort of metal strenghening beams or something?
And do you think they are something i can get hold of?
or does anyone ave any other ideas of what i could do to strengthen the roof?
Thanks in advance for any help
Jay