Hayden
Love/Hate Relationship
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada
- Car(s)
- 2016 GTI
Welp. After reading tons and tons of stories I finally caught the plague of sunroof issues, just looking for some insight here.
While turning into my work parking lot today, water dripped out of the switch panel (above the rear view mirror), I popped the sunglass holder out and popped the lights plastic out and the inside is pretty wet, nothing crazy. Headliner isn’t wet at all and not a ton of water came from the panel, but you can tell it’s damp inside. I checked the sunroof drains and it seems fine? I poured water into both sides and it doesn’t pool at all and seems to drain very quickly to the ground.
I saw some posts about sticking those wires through causing damage and it not being recommended..but I can’t for the life of me find anybody recommending any other way to try to clear the tubes. I poured a few bottles of hot water through, as well as some dish soap then flushed with hot water again. It comes pouring out the bottom of the car fairly fast
but as I said, it doesn’t seem to be clogged or pooling at all..any suggestions? I had my windshield replaced about 10 months ago with aftermarket glass, but I haven’t had any issues at all with that and it rains constantly here in Vancouver.
Wondering if there’s something I’m missing.
Edit: I did see this: https://www.reddit.com/r/GolfGTI/comments/7xnk8v The strange thing is it seems that those stickers are already applied to mine..
here is a video of my sunroof. It looks like those stickers were already applied. The only concern I had is the bottom right corner of that rubber seal.. it dips a bit, could that be an issue?
While turning into my work parking lot today, water dripped out of the switch panel (above the rear view mirror), I popped the sunglass holder out and popped the lights plastic out and the inside is pretty wet, nothing crazy. Headliner isn’t wet at all and not a ton of water came from the panel, but you can tell it’s damp inside. I checked the sunroof drains and it seems fine? I poured water into both sides and it doesn’t pool at all and seems to drain very quickly to the ground.
I saw some posts about sticking those wires through causing damage and it not being recommended..but I can’t for the life of me find anybody recommending any other way to try to clear the tubes. I poured a few bottles of hot water through, as well as some dish soap then flushed with hot water again. It comes pouring out the bottom of the car fairly fast
but as I said, it doesn’t seem to be clogged or pooling at all..any suggestions? I had my windshield replaced about 10 months ago with aftermarket glass, but I haven’t had any issues at all with that and it rains constantly here in Vancouver.
Wondering if there’s something I’m missing.
Edit: I did see this: https://www.reddit.com/r/GolfGTI/comments/7xnk8v The strange thing is it seems that those stickers are already applied to mine..
here is a video of my sunroof. It looks like those stickers were already applied. The only concern I had is the bottom right corner of that rubber seal.. it dips a bit, could that be an issue?
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