SUNROOF RATTLE
After living with the sunroof rattle ever
since I got the car, decided to fix it today. It's so easy, don't know why I waited this long.
1) Remove the sunroof. Now you need to
take the wind deflector out as one source of the rattle is here.
2) Remove the deflector c-clip (red) from
the spring lever (green). Simply hold the lever with a screwdriver and push the
deflector toward the front of the car. Repeat for the other side.
3) Now, you need to remove the little
clips that the deflector slides on (this is actually the source of the
rattling). Slide the deflector toward the back of the car, so that you can get
to the front of the clips. Take a thin-bladed screwdriver to underside of the
clips and pry them up with a simple twisting motion of the screwdriver.
4) Here's just some pics of the deflector
out of the car. Wipe off all the dirt under the deflector.
5) Now place a piece of felt or fabric
into the recesses that the sliding clips rest in, or attach them to the proper
side of the sliding clips circled above.
I used a couple cut pieces of the material
used in toolboxes to keep tools from sliding around.
6) Now reinstall the wind deflector. Put
the back of the sliding clip in first and then push the front of the clip down.
I had to use a screwdriver to push it down in place, because of the thicker
material that I used.
7) Clip back on the c-clips
8) The other source of potential rattles
is the retaining spring and clip. You may try just lubricating it with WD40 or
something similar. You can see in the first picture that the plastic had worn
off, so that there is metal-on-metal contact that is causing the squeak. But I
decided just to remove mine altogether.
