Whitt944

I just got in the car, was getting prepped to go for a moonlite drive, put up the sunroof and a horrible popping and grinding noise started. Then chunks of plastic fell out. Anyone want to guess what happened?

rberry951

Molecular breakdown of carbon based co-polymers?

Lorax

That car is done for. Ill take it off your hands for a generous $5.

billthe3

Did you forget to refill the headlight fluid again?

schwank

Well duh, it's a SUNroof, not a moonroof!

xsboost90

gears took a sheet.

tifosiman

You didn't check the sunroof timing belt tension did you? It has to be checked every 15K miles. The sunroof on these cars is an interference design, and when the belt gets loose, it can skip a few teeth and all havoc occurrs. The little chunks of plastic are probably all that is left of the sunroof valves, after the sunroof pistons slammed into them and rendered them useless. Whatever you do, don't try to open it again, you'll just destroy more sunroof valves.

Whitt944

I just scared my cat I laughed so hard.

sharky47

tifo - you made me cry I was laughing so hard - possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen/read on rennlist.......

EDIT - is there a $1,000,000,000 tensioning tool that is hard to use and easily broken available for this belt?

75ohm

I will bring the parts if you fly me out.

Whitt944

Either way it is rather expensive, no?

75ohm

Not really... the plastic gears are nominal...

Bri Bro

Sunroof belts...thats funny.

The gears are cheap, and if you don't fix what broke your current ones, they will strip again. I went through three of them until I finally found the problem. Price in link below.

http://www.944online.com/cgi-local/A...+body-944turbo

Keithr726

Wonder how much it would be to ship from hawaii.

billthe3

Still probably less than the car is would normally sell for.