sun roof removal

[merlin]

Any one on here ever welded up a sun roof or plated over one,if you did weld one how good were the results.

Ken

[donsrno1]

I think Daz tried it and it went badly wrong iirc. I think he ended up either selling the car super cheap or scrapping it. I'm not sure if anyone else has tried it though.

[stevie_b]

I'm in the process of doing this so would welcome any advice too. I rather unwisely took my sunroof out just before taking the engine out, so I now have an immobile car with a big hole in the roof and no easy way to get it to a welder's to make it watertight again! I would rather weld in a plate and grind back to a reasonably flat roof than rivet a plate over it, which is the easy solution. What was the issue with welding - does it end up causing ripples all over the rest of the roof or something due to the heat generated when welding? I think this could be avoided by doing small sections at a time, allowing it to fully cool inbetween?

[Matt_16v]

I WOULDNT DO IT!!!!


the roof is so thin that it would seriously distort as soon as you put any heat into it, its not worth the bother, jus buy a non sunroof shell.

I looked into this and my boss said he wouldnt run the risk of damaging it aswell and hes been welding all his life


matt

[MatBrown]

Get a carbon fibre blanking square and bolt that in place instead.



Mat.

[pat_986]

I know George's old hybrid (now owned by midge) has had it removed.

But as said I think the only solution is to rivet a sheet over the whole.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Mark Ritchie bonded it on using some ridiculous chemical stuff and then filled the top.

[Martin]

tbh midges looks tidy enough....mine leaks so might have to go!!

[Dancliovalver]

what bout having something like a carbon fibre sheet made??

would look pretty kool

[merlin]

I asked a few body shop people and they said the only proper way to replace it is to fit a new roof skin,if welded and only doing a few tacks at a time there is a riske of very bad distortion,if looks arnt to important the best bet is to plate over it and if poss use carbon fibre sheet,i think i would just use ally plate.i asked this same topic on the British rally forum page last week and was told the same thing.

Ken