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 Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:01 pm
First I'd like to say I love my little 214, but recently the rubber seal around the sunroof has decayed to the state where it now flaps around in the breeze, and has exposed that the entire sunroof is now made of rust (Due to corrosion caused by leaking seals)
I need to seal the gaps around the glass pane, it's getting to the point of the year where there is alot of rain, and on more than one occassion in the last week I have got into the driver's seat, only to find I didnt notice the small lake forming in the footwell or the patch of drenched material on the seat itself.
I have checked all local scrap dealers, half a dozen internet sites, the local papers, even the Audi dealership that was once the MG / Rover dealership, and nowhere has the seal or the sunroof that I need to avoid drowning myself when winter gets here.
Me and my father have differing views on what to do. I want to simply tear out all the old seal and replace everything with a sealant of somekind until new parts can be obtained and installed. My father wants to leave the seal in and do nothing on the grounds that finding a new seal should in theory be easier and that the effort taken in removing the sealant without breaking the glass sunroof wouldnt be worth it.
Anyone here got any suggestions? If needed I can post a few pictures of the sunroof itself
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Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:26 am
I think you should make one out of liquid gasket or some similar material, but before you put it in you should coat everything but the very edges with a light layer of petroleum jelly. If you do it like that you can easily remove the pho-gasket when you finally get a real one.
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 6:11 pm
oh my god... the same thing happened to my dads car .. i turn left and oh okay im swimming in the Mississippi river.. bit of caulking under the sealant works temporary but if u want it to look nice, buy new seals
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 6:36 pm
wahmbulance Update: wahmbulance No new seal as of yet but since my dad went away for the weekend I tore out the old seal and filled the entire gap with gutter sealant (waterproof, durable, designed for outdoor use and actually black in colour, so the work looks less obvious)
Result? One watertight seal and one unmoveable sunroof (Not that we need one here in the UK 98% of the time)
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