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
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
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.
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?
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
Get a carbon fibre blanking square and bolt that in place instead.
Mat.
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.
Mark Ritchie bonded it on using some ridiculous chemical stuff and then filled the top.
tbh midges looks tidy enough....mine leaks so might have to go!!
what bout having something like a carbon fibre sheet made??
would look pretty kool
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