Water leak through interior roof console

[yob_yeknom]

The CD's don't have any information on how to get to the screws on a sun roof equipped model. Go figure. Here is a picture of where the screws are located after you figure out how to remove the panel around the button though.

 

[MattHarrell]

Is that picture for a sunroof model?

I only ask because that's how the non-sunroof ones look and I'm not sure the others have an open button like the picture shows. After all if they did then it would be easy.....

 

[ColinG]

Howard: My attempt at humour misfired - it should have been a gallon each way!! I'm out of the office till next week so will catch up then. If you have an email send it to me so that we can arrange a get together. In the mean time I'll try to get some answers on removing the console, without breaking, scratching, swearing, crying etc.

Matt: Thanks for the ebay links. Good to know what it looks like inside, even if I can't get mine off! (Yet.) I'm sure it's just a push fit, but it's knowing where the lugs are that keep it there. Anyway it looks like someone before me has tried (either successfully or not) to get the panel out as there are dents in the edge.

Matey: During my numerous and varied searches on Google - that eventually led me to this forum and you guys - I came across something regarding a leaking tailgate. Sorry, I have no idea where it was now. Anyway, the guy concerned said that the rubber seal is a compression fit, i.e. like most door seals it's a tube that squashes against the thing it seals, and that his had sagged. I think what he meant was that, over time, it was no longer returning to its 'tube' shape and thus was remaining squashed. This reduced its ability to seal. I guess the only answer, if this is the case, is to get a new one. But... do you actually have a leak? Mine did it once. I think what happens is that rainwater gets in behind the glass, sits there but doesn't come in. Unless you open the tailgate in which case it tips in as the tailgate goes up. As I say mine did it once and it was just after it had been raining. Hasn't happened since.

Taxxman2k: Thanks but there are nicer parts of the UK than Oxfordshire. It's also too dammed expensive around here.

Yob_yeknom: Thanks for the picture. It looks like the non-sunroof version (comparing it to the images in the ebay links). However you'd think that they'd be basically the same as far as fixing goes.

Colin Gordon
colin.gordon@anchor.org.uk

 

[matey]

leaky rear window

thanks it makes sense now i reversed into a pole 12 months ago told the insurence some one hit me an dissappeared but the guy who fixed it billed the insurence for stuff that he didnt put in like the rear rubber
thanks again

 

['96explorereddiebauer]

The overhead consoles with the sunroof don't have any screws at all. It's held on by clips at the front and the molding at the sunroof. So if you want to take the overhead console down, open the sunroof, pull the molding back to the point where the overhead console can come down, then yank the console down.

Like yob_yeknom said and illustrated, the non-sunroof consoles consist of clips and two screws where the garage door opener storage is.