How to Fix a Leaking Sunroof

Clearing a clogged bleed tube will solve the trouble

Introduction

Solve most sunroof leak bug by clearing a clogged drain tube with your shop vacuum.

Tools Required

Materials Required

  • PVC spinous adapter 3/viii-in
  • PVC cap
  • PVC trap adapter
  • Speedometer cable
  • Vinyl hose

You lot've got water on your seats right below the sunroof, and yous're about to accept matters into your own hands. We're warning y'all: Put downwardly the caulk gun and step away from the vehicle. Usually it's merely a bleed tube that'south clogged with debris. So the h2o tin't drain and it overflows into the cabin. And that's a simple DIY repair that yous can do in about xx minutes.

Project footstep-by-footstep (iii)

Step i

Machine sunroof repair: Take hold of the vacuum!

Open your sunroof and await for the drain holes in both front end corners. Those tubes run through the door pillars and drain through to the rocker panels. Y'all may be tempted to run a coat hanger down the tubes or blast them with compressed air. Don't! You might poke the wire right through the tubing or disconnect it from the bleed pigsty. And then yous'd accept to remove the entire headliner to reconnect it—a big job. Instead, use a shop vacuum and small-diameter vinyl tubing to suck out the clog.

Stride 2

Car sunroof repair: Vacuum the bleed tube

Make a hose reducer with ordinary PVC plumbing parts: you'll demand a PVC trap adapter (to fit the vacuum hose), a PVC cap (to fit the adapter), and a 3/eight-in. PVC barbed adapter. One time yous've created your hose reducer, attach a vinyl hose to the end and vacuum the grime out of the h2o channel and the drain tube.

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Step three

Motorcar sunroof repair: Insert a snake

If that doesn't do the trick, attempt running a very small-scale flexible "plumbing" snake downwards the tube to break up the clog. (Actually, it's a speedometer cable establish at whatever auto parts shop for about $8.) Snake out a really stubborn clog with a speedometer cable. Twist the cablevision as you feed it downwards the tube. If cleaning the tubes doesn't work, don't attempt to disassemble the machinery or bend the sail metal to become a amend fit. That'south a job for a meridian-notch body store. If the car isn't worth the price of the repair, we rescind our before alarm. Become for the silicone and live without the current of air in your hair.