Both hardtop and ragtop sunroofs can be installed with the benefit of an aftermarket utensils.
Sunroofs are a common quality included in some models of motorcar. When not installed at the foundry, distinctive aftermarket kits are available to install competency sunroofs in your motorcar without the nourishment of a crackerjack shop. The kits append detailed templates custom-tailored to your compose and design of motorcar to make sure that any cuts into the roof crop up in the equitable apartment. You Testament want diverse efficacy tools, on the other hand no too expenses are required beyond the equipment.
Instructions
16. Carefully lower the sunroof into the cutout section of the roof. Take special care not to dent the exterior.17.Remove the cap on the "A" pillar, the structural beam supporting the roof on the driver's side of the windshield.
Flatten the template completely over the roof, moulding undeniable to smooth gone any creases.
3. Incision absent the areas designated on the template with a hobby or other single-edged blade. Hint sorrounding the inside edges of these areas with a marker.
4. Place the six holes striking at the front of the template for the wind deflector, and drill honest wrapped up them ethical Sufficiently to penetrate the exterior without harming the interior lining.
5. Remove the template, then drill a larger, co-pilot gap inside of the existence you traced.
6. Starting at and using this aviator gap, chop away the traced divide of the metal exterior with a sabre proverb, a "nibbler", or, alternatively, a die grinder. Carefully peel the episode of metal out from the abutment ribs underneath and discard it.
12. Remove an additional 3/4 inch from each of the ribs to match the headliner, using a die grinder or sabersaw from underneath.13.
9. Grasp a permanent marker against the inside wrinkle of the roofing incision you abbreviate outside and hint all over it onto the headliner.
10. Avail a servicing ooloo or box cutter to chop gone the traced abbreviate of headliner to match the roofing as closely as possible.
11. Lay 3/4-inch tape around the outside of the headliner. Use this tape as a guide as you cut around the outsides of the tape to remove an addition 3/4 inch from each side of the headliner.
7. Intersect Everyone of the exposed ribs along the newly section roof line with a die grinder and discard them besides.8. Capitalization screwdrivers to detach and remove any lights mounted to the interior ceiling where the sunroof is to be installed, then unplug them.
Remove burrs from the edges cut out of the roof with the die grinder.
14. Starting with the front strip, apply the strips of protective foil from the sunroof kit to the roof of the vehicle. Place them flush with the cut edges without creases or wrinkles.
15. Use the special sealing washers, nuts and bolts to attach the front wind deflector, leaving the nuts untightened.
Installing The Sunroof
Making Room For The Sunroof
1. Replace the sunroof instruments's instructions To gauge, stop and tape off where on the vehivle roof the template should be laid.2.18. Route the wiring for the sunroof's motor down the pillar to underneath the dash.
19. Use a screwdriver to remove both of the retaining screws from the sunroof motor. Ensure that the motor can be slid between the metal skin of the outer roof and the interior lining.
20. Push the frame for the front clamp into place at the front of the cut-out headliner, then screw in the motor fastening screws from the sunroof kit.
21. Hold the frame for the rear clamp in place at the other end, then screw down and tighten the accompanying nuts from the kit onto each of the stay bolts.
22. Push the side frames on and screw them in place using the screws provided in the kit. Avoid driving screws into holes covered by labels at this point.
23. Hold the trim frame supports in position so that the upwardly-flanged nose engages the gap between the main frame and the clamping frame. Screw them in place with the kit's fastening screws, tightening each one equally.
24. Connect the sunroof's switch to the wiring loom and test it.
25. Close the sunroof and adjust the wind deflector before tightening down the nuts on it.
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Lay the wire for the switch in the gap at the front as you fit the front trim cover in place.
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Open the sunroof completely, then hold the rear and side trim covers as you push in the fasteners from the kit to attach them in place.
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Start at the middle of the rear edge and push the edge protection bumper into place all around the sides. Trim excess with wire cutters.
