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General Information => Upgrades (non engine related ) => Topic started by: The Mad Hatter on May 05, 2008, 05:25:19 pm
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Just doing some thinking about my diesel Golf, and i thought about adding a sunroof. Its an 85 2 door. I've been getting parts from a junkyard GTI that has a good sunroof and headliner in it. Is it possible to just hack a hole and install the factory roof? Or would more be involved in it? Thanks for any info!
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It's a lot more involved. There are a lot of extra support bars on the sunroof models. Drop the headliner and you will see what I mean.
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Tyler is right. Be careful when cutting holes into the roof of the car or any part of the body for that matter. It may compromise the structural integrity of the roof if there should be a rollover.
In my opinion sunroofs are overrated. My girlfriends Mk4 Jetta has one and I never use it when I drive her car. She does once in a while but not really. I don't think it's worth the effort.
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NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! resist the temptation. You will have water leaks and while the Mk2 wiring and rustproofing is better than Mk1, water inside a VW is only trouble.
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Well I have a sunroof (just a window that tilts up in the back) on my rabbit. It's aftermarket and the PO had to cut a brace out to put it in, the brace was definitely too weak to hold the car up in a rollover but if it snows a lot the roof sags a bit. Anyways I sure like it, it creates a vacuum in the car so every air leak lets nice cool air in. :roll: Also it doesn't leak water. :P
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For a factory sun roof the only "proper" way to do it would be pull the glass, cut the roof off at the pillars and weld on teh new one. even then, iffy..
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a jetta i bought a while ago had an aftermarket sunroof... it didn't leak.
man i love sunroofs. great way to suck out hot air out of your car. if you have a/c, a sunroof will suck the hot air above you right away, and then you just close it and enjoy the cool air. my old 86 jetta had a fac sunroof in it... old crank type and that thing was sweet. i really wanted a sunroof on my current jetta but i settled... not too happy but can't have everything right?
webasto makes a really good sunroof. $$$ though.
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10-4. Seems like its aftermarket or nothing. Scrapping the idea. Maybe i'll just get the A/C working instead...
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10-4. Seems like its aftermarket or nothing. Scrapping the idea. Maybe i'll just get the A/C working instead...
i found this site to be quite interesting... http://www.autoacsystems.com/_store/storeopen_VSorings.html
they sell stuff to re-crimp your lines and or braze them and add new hose to stop leaks. pretty damn cool! and they sell o-rings and other goodies. i'd suggest switching to a non r134a refrigerant though... most people don't realize that it is a multi gas refrigerant with one gas having a very small molecule that just pisses out of the smallest hole, thus rendering the refrigerant useless. while hydrocarbon refrigerant is ignited by a spark, the autoignition temp is higher than on r134a which is the more likely to happen.
good luck.
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DUDE.................................NO SUNROOFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:
A Moon Roof would be COOL though. :wink:
Moon Roof = Tilty glass window in the roof of car :twisted:
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DUDE.................................NO SUNROOFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:
A Moon Roof would be COOL though. :wink:
Moon Roof = Tilty glass window in the roof of car :twisted:
actually that would be best, and that is what was installed in a jetta i bought. sucks the heat right out when its opened :wink:
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I love the sunroof in my passat wagon. On a hot day, all I have to do is pop it, hit the ac button, and in a very short amount of time, it is cold inside. I'd say that normally driving, with the roof just popped, the blower motor off, it is probably equivalent to having the blower motor on "2" or so.
As for adapting parts from a sunroof car to a non sunroof car, like other said, it would require you to completely remove the roof weld the sunroof roof in. Which I don't feel would be the strongest thing. Too much work for just a sunroof; easier to just go get another car. My old rocco was sunroof; it had a whole sub-roof thing inside, to strengthen the roof and hold all the crap for the sunroof.
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I had an aftermarket sun roof on my MK2 Golf and it was a PITA leaked from day one and wish I had not done it. But it's up to you.
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Why not install a 14"X14" camper vent in it? It would give you more airflow.......... Just Kidding. :P
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put in a whole factory sunroof roof if you're going to do it. not worth it IMO. just find a sunroof body.
swamp cooler :mrgreen:
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my friend and I were thinking of re-enforcing the brace across the very front (of the roof) and then cutting a HUGE sun roof, from that point, as far back as we could, almost over the back seats. We're considering having a brace over the middle of the sun roof and do it jeep style and just clamp the canvas tight. OR keep the piece we cut out as nice as possible and then use like weather striping or something to make it removable. (two seperate pieces would work also as to keep a brace in the middle) It would be totally illegal im sure *everywhere* but it would be so cool! Like a Renault!! They have two sunroofs on some of their models. It's absolute lunacy but i think we could do a good job one way or another. I'm liking the two sun roofs idea. (they would be detachable and we'd use the pieces we cut out (carefully) as the removable part. no retractable rubbish! Can the mk2 jetta roof not accomodate this in any fasion or could it be a fun experiment