[s-cars] Sunroof not bringing much sunshine ...

[Lewis Consulting]

Thanks Bill, 

Appreciate the reply, I will do that... Thanks for Bill's how-to.  I suspected that perhaps I may
have shorted out the switch contacts.   

Take care, 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Randy

Lewis Consulting

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Noland [mailto:wenoland at pacbell.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:56 AM
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Cc: lewisconsulting at sasktel.net
Subject: Re: Sunroof not bringing much sunshine ...

Randy, not sure if this will help, but here's one of those how-to's I saved over the years. This one
is courtesy of Bill m. Probably worth pulling the panel down and make sure you're getting power at
the switch and motor.



Bill N

(actually, no relation to Bill m -- just next door neighbors in the
alphabet)



"Perhaps this happened last winter when I tried to open the sunroof to the 
vent position whilst it was iced shut.  Why would anyone do this?  Dont 
know, but while mine did 'pop' open, it also skipped a few gear teeth.  This 
left my open/close dial at about 10 a 4 oclock instead of 12 and 6 in order 
for the roof panel to be flat and in the correctly closed position:/



LesFix~

Pull down light/SR dial panel from front windshield side.  Just let it hang 
down.

Turn the SR dial control so that it is at the correctly closed 12 and 6 
position.

Observe crank shaft hole where manual key would be inserted for manual 
operation and note that there is a very small notch on the outside of this 
key hole shaft.

Take a sharp instrument and make a small mark where this notch is adjacent 
to it on the housing as a reference point.

Turn SR control so that SR panel is flat with roof i.e. the roof panel is in 
the correctly closed position. Observe the key hole shaft as it rotates and 
make another mark on the housing where the notch stops.

It will take a little playing to ascertain that the panel is in the flat and 
correctly closed position.  When it is, make this aforementioned mark on the 
housing.

Now look at the motor housing assembly and observe that there are three star 
type allen screws that need to be removed in order that the motor drive gear 
can be lowered, taken out of gear so to speak and have the drive gear rotate 
freely.

So remove these allen type screws (they are not real tight)and pull the 
whole assembly down.

You will see that the motor assembly has an angled drive gear while in the 
roof there are matching drive tracks that this gear sits between.

Now is a good time to clean all this and regrease.  Brake cleaner with a red 
plastic extension spout worked extremely good for the cleaning portion.  I 
then applied some new bearing grease.

Now take the manual SR key and push it into the key hole/shaft and rotate it 
(clockwise IIRC) until the notch on the shaft lines up with the first mark 
that you made on the housing.

Re screw the housing assembly into place.  If by some miracle the panel is 
in the closed position AND the SR switch is in the 12 and 6 oclock (closed) 
position, you are done.

If not you will have to unscrew the assembly again (not a big deal) and try 
some further rotational adjustments.

Thought I'd get this out whilst still sort of fresh in my head.

Cheer's

Bill m"



> Closed my sunroof via the door key the other day, closed fine, but now the 
> roof is completely
> unresponsive.  I have checked the fuses (both under hood and side of dash) 
> and they seem good,
> having no other symptoms.  Any thoughts on what I have done??