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Hey all. Last few times it's rained heavily, I've noticed a drip inside the cabin:



I had a real close look around the sunroof today once the weather had dried up. The metalwork all seems intact, as do the seals around the arm thingummies which open and close the roof.

However the sunroof seal itself looks like this:



Reckon this is the likely suspect?

I think the normal suspect is that the water is not draining away properly through the drain holes.

You could get some small clear tubing and blow down the drain lines maybe, but I wouldn't poke anything sharp like wire down there in case you puncture the peugeot drain (also clear tubing type stuff).

I also seem to remember it could be the drain lines themselves that leak? requiring the headlining out etc to check them out we don't see this often as most of us don't have a sunroof

Could be the seal round the arial, mine's made out of silicon

steve_earwig wrote:Could be the seal round the arial, mine's made out of silicon

Oh yes I forgot about that, actually that's your favourite place to check first.

steve_earwig wrote:Could be the seal round the arial, mine's made out of silicon

What seal? The 2 D8s I've checked on haven't actually had seals on the aerial

Oh oh oh...

Ariel? I'll have a butcher's at it tomorrow, cheers.

But what and where are these drain holes you speak of?

They should be in all four corners of the sunroof apaer apar hole, one way of checking them is to run some water in and make sure it runs out the other ends, which should be somewhere around the wheel arches. Obviuosly you'd have to be extremely careful...

Roger, churs

I've had a similar thing with mine but it's intermittent. I've poured water down the front drain holes ans they've worked fine.....but I cannot get to the rear ones to pour water down! Looking at the aerial how can you reseal it as it looks like a b*****d to get too!

Park it facing up a hill and pour water in? I seem to remember getting water out of all 4 on my D8 estate but I can't remember how I did it

The hairyhole's on the front on a D8 & D9 saloon (I think), you just need to take of the roof console and Robert's your father's brother. On a D9 estate they're on the back (well, mine is) so you probably have to take the surround off and get in over the roof lining.

When I took the sunroof button surround off all I could see was the aerial plug and no mounting bolt for the damn thing!

Now I wish I'd taken pictures but it was 4 years ago so I'm not exactly sure what's holding it on. I don't think there were bolts or anything, I think it was one big nut around the whole thing.

Aha! It's amazing the stuff you find if you have a search.

sidmon1 wrote:When I took the sunroof button surround off all I could see was the aerial plug and no mounting bolt for the damn thing!

Getting it off is easy - just turn the aerial mount anticlockwise from outside. Getting it back on is much trickier unless you know how. Take the cup off the internal connection and put the top part and the nut on first before refitting the cup. Otherwise you'll be faffing about for hours trying to get the nut to catch...