sunroof

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Topic: sunroof

Posted By: pmpdoutexpo
Subject: sunroof
Date Posted: July 09, 2006 at 1:35 AM

i was wndering how hard it would be to put a power sunroofin my 98 expo sport or how much it would be to have someone install it

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Posted By: josh1979
Date Posted: July 09, 2006 at 8:04 AM

all i know about aftermarket sunroofs is i have seen a lot of them f'ed up, not to say that cant be done right but thats a big hole in that nice water tight sheat metal. just do you reasearch and see if you can get some referrals to some one thats on top of there game.

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Posted By: sawhit4
Date Posted: July 09, 2006 at 9:31 PM

Yeah make sure you are absolutly sure that whoever does it knows whats they're doing. I know a guy that paid someone who "used to work for a body shop" to install his sunroof. The guy gave him the address to his "new shop" and told him to drop his car off there. Turns out the guys new shop was his gerage and he had never installed a sunroof before. My friend ordered his own sunroof and gave it to the guy and the guy asked to make sure the instructions were still in the box. He totally screwed it up. It was crooked and leaks horribly. He's had to goop silicone into the gap to try to keep the rain out.

Posted By: Melted Fabric
Date Posted: July 10, 2006 at 1:01 PM

sawhit4 wrote:

Yeah make sure you are absolutly sure that whoever does it knows whats they're doing. I know a guy that paid someone who "used to work for a body shop" to install his sunroof. The guy gave him the address to his "new shop" and told him to drop his car off there. Turns out the guys new shop was his gerage and he had never installed a sunroof before. My friend ordered his own sunroof and gave it to the guy and the guy asked to make sure the instructions were still in the box. He totally screwed it up. It was crooked and leaks horribly. He's had to goop silicone into the gap to try to keep the rain out.

I know that is not funny, but... then again it kind of is, lol.

Did the guy get a refund or discount?

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Posted By: doibuy
Date Posted: July 12, 2006 at 8:42 PM

Go with webasto sunroofs, they are the best out there. It is not a DIY project. You need a lot of specalized tools that most regular installers don't have. Find a dealer in your area and see if they will give you a good deal, you will probably be looking at $750-$1000 for the sunroof and labor.

Think of it this way, your first stereo install, yeah it worked and looked OK, but after a couple hundred you realize that it wasn't all that great. Same thing with a sunroof. With out experience your first one won't turn out that great.

Posted By: evol E
Date Posted: July 16, 2006 at 12:21 AM

I've been a sunroof installer for 6 years now and this is not something a dyi person should do. Have a professional shop that does sunroofs do it. There is a lot of different styles but a full power that vents up and retracts in to the roor is what we install in suvs. If my memory serves me your truck has ribs that sink into the roof and that means you gotta know what your doing. We sell and install them for around $1000. Check out autosunroof.com and see if we have a shop near you. Good luck