Sunroof Drain Tube Replacement

This video is of an old volvo b.

Sunroof drain tube replacement.

If you folks have ever watched one of my videos and it s helped you please email lanny owner of accurate engines and let him know that you would consider. Replacing the hoses pretty much straight forward you have to gain access to them and then install a new silicon rubber 12mm hose instead. You may be tempted to run a coat hanger down the tubes or blast them with compressed air. Depending on where you live sunroof drains may become plugged sooner than later.

Ford expedition mountaineer explorer and more. If you live in a treed are. You might poke the wire right through the tubing or disconnect it from the drain hole. Sunroof leak found must see not the drain tubes sometimes.

Check out my amazon auto accessories store. Open your sunroof and look for the drain holes in both front corners. Those tubes run through the door pillars and drain through to the rocker panels. Vehicle i bought used.

It had been wrecked years ago. I removed the a pillar cover and saw the flattened tube. Water leaks caused by a clogged sunroof drain are very common and easy to cure. They are going down from the sunroof to the floor and tend to break after few years.

The required tools are. Video tutorial on how to unplug a sunroof drain. Don t pay someone to do this it s too easy. Now test using a bottle of water gradually drain the water around the sunroof drain do not excessively dump as the drain is only able to remove a certain amount of water.

As you can see the water is draining properly. If the problem persists there may have been a drain you missed a faulty seal or faulty drain. Insert a skinny flexible metal wire in a drain tube. If you have a sunroof the immediate suspect would be the sunroof drain hoses.