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Finding a leak
- Thread starter theburns1
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You did re seal your sunroof before you did all that?
imprezaworks
ClioSport Club Member
Mk5 Golf GTI :)
Looks cleaner if nothing else mate. Good work
Clio 172
Nope. Only joking yeah, bloody sunroof pouring in. It was one of them looking up the bulk head for ages, had the scuttle off ect then looked up at the roof and thought, that looks wet lol
Clio 172
Explain how I'd do it before I did all this? Or am I being a bit dumb. Plan is to remove sun roof, good inspection and seal in place. Proper job in my eyes
Clio 172
Cheers mate, yeah loads cleaner, don't wear gloves any more when I'm in there lol. Still smells a bit though.
I did it leaving my entire interior in place. Had to pull the headlining down a little to fit a socket in but that was it
Clio 172
I pulled my interior out as I'm replacing it, but wanted capets and foam up anyway to dry off, while doing that found a previous owner had drilled holes in the floor to drain the water!!!!!! What a clever guy. Took the whole roof lining down so I can dry the lining out and get as much water out the roof as possible. It's a bad leak, and I always do what I clas as a proper job, not knocking what you did, just I'm a little ocd with everything I do.
Clio 172
Previous owner drilled holes in the floor to drain the water...ersevere: What a prat! Glad you've went about it the proper way :up:
Cheers mate, always like to think I'm doing it the best I can. But after today I'm beginning to wish I hadn't bothered lol. I had some double sided seal in my garage so I used that, hasn't worked
so going to use a weather proof sealant. Didn't want to bond it, but at least I know it won't leak. So another day not getting the new interior in.
GavC
ClioSport Club Member
Black Gold 182FF
In my non sport to sort it's sunroof I bought new a new rubber seal and had the mechanic apply silicone sealant to seal the bugger! Worked a treat!Cheers mate, always like to think I'm doing it the best I can. But after today I'm beginning to wish I hadn't bothered lol. I had some double sided seal in my garage so I used that, hasn't worked
I used a rubber draught excluder tape that worked so well. Then a bit of silicon in every gap I could find!
Clio 172
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I went to b&q, wickes and another small hard ware store looking for something like that but found nothing suitable. It's really pissed me off as I hate doing anything twice.
Megane 225 f1
Get the proper seal kit from renault. Now you have gone that far it will be easy to get the sunroof cassette out and fit the seals. Believe it or not the seals are foam and sit between the roof and the frame of the sunroof. I did one about 3 years ago. Still dry now.
Not many want to pay £60 for a seal when there are far cheaper alternatives available.
Clio 172
The reason I didn't want to go genuine is they are proven to fail and leak. When I scraped the original seal off it did seem poor. As @fairm010 said its also a lot of money. If it was a good seal and I had faith in it I'd pay it, but I have no faith in the seal. Glad its worked for you though
