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[sbarc]

Has anyone replaced their sunroof piping? Mine is shot and I'd like to replace it.....but I'm not sure how it is done.

Anyone know how to do this? It looks like a pain to replace.

I might wait until I do the paint job.....that would make more sense.
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1981 931 (Canadian car)
1981 931 (US car)
1990 928GT (ROW car)
1991 Toyota MR2
1989 Toyota MR2 Super Charged
1985 Toyota Supra
1973 Triumph GT6
1971 Opel GT

[ideola]

By piping are you referring to the drain tubes? Or the sunroof seals?

Usually the drain tubes don't need replacing unless they somehow got torn or cracked. The way I would do it is to tie/tape a plumb line to the bottom of the tube, disconnect it from the nipple at the top, and then pull it carefully out; re-attach the plumb line to your new tube and pull it back down, then reattach to the nipple. Repeat x4.

The seals are pretty easy, there's one on the body and one on the sunroof itself. I got lucky on the 941, replacing the one on the body fixed a slight leak that I had, and didn't require changing the seal on the sunroof itself. But on SONIC I had to replace both. The body seal isn't too costly, but the one on the panel is usually ~$100.
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erstwhile owner of just about every 924 variant ever made

[sbarc]

Yup....sunroof seal.......the one on my sunroof panel has the plastic cord coming out in over 50% of the panel. It looks bad and probably doesn't seal well.

How is it held in place?
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1981 931 (Canadian car)
1981 931 (US car)
1990 928GT (ROW car)
1991 Toyota MR2
1989 Toyota MR2 Super Charged
1985 Toyota Supra
1973 Triumph GT6
1971 Opel GT

[ideola]

The on-sunroof seal is just an interference fit, although the ones I have gotten seem to have a light sticky residue in the channel that helps hold them in place. It's not a heavy duty adhesive like 3M trim adhesive, but it does help hold it in place. You basically just peel the old one off, and the new one is just an "interference" type fit. No big deal, they're really easy to install, just press on over the lip of the sunroof. IIRC, the one I installed new was a little longer than required (a good thing), which allows you to trim it precisely to fit. I believe the seal has a piece of thin flexible metal embedded in it that helps keep it rigid and take the form of the sunroof.
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erstwhile owner of just about every 924 variant ever made

[sbarc]

[ideola]

Or it could be that I'm confusing it with the hatch seal (which I know has a metal core) OR maybe yours is original, and the OEM replacements have metal? I'm going from memory, so it may not be a metal core, but nevertheless, the swap out is the same, and pretty easy.
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erstwhile owner of just about every 924 variant ever made

[mikebola]

mine was plastic too. I don't have a sunroof anymore, though....
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