[s-cars] another mystery - phantom sunroof

[Jack Walker]

Over the years I've cleaned out the darn things numerous times, but it
always seems to be the time that I've got a couple feet of snow on the top
of the car and then drive back to Portland from the mountains that the snow
starts sliding around, melts and it's down the neck. 

It's like I must not be cleaning the things out right!
Weed Wacker line doesn't seem to be stiff enough, and things like clothes
hangers are too stiff and scratch the paint. I'll get it again this long
weekend!

So on another note, be careful if you do have a big pile of snow on the
roof. If it slides forward and has any weight in the snow it will jam the
wipers and the posts of the arm attachment will simply strip out the threads
on the arms and take the threads on the posts with it if it continues to run
ever so slightly. Temporary fix to reattach the arms is to stuff them with
steel wool to fill the striped out threads. Wouldn't you think Audi would
have the arms designed to be sacrificial rather than take out the complete
post threads. Is there a way to replace the threaded post?

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Levitt [mailto:lee at wheelman.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:43 PM
To: Jack Walker; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] another mystery - phantom sunroof

Yep. Wear a hat with a broad bill. :)

Lee



On Wed Dec 23 14:35:17 CST 2009, Jack Walker 
<jack at walkerperformancegroup.com> wrote:

> All this discussion of mystery sunroofs has me scared!
> 
> Every now and then I get a back of the neck with water from my 
> sunroof
> leaking!
> 
> Sounds like some preventative measures are in order.
> 
> Jack
> 
>