Water Leaking Through Sunroof Controls

[RLXXI]

This is why I'll never own another vehicle with a moon roof or T tops. Have had both leak on me and if you think about it, all it is is one huge hole in the roof, we shouldn't expect it to leak right?... wrong. They're designed to leak into a track just under the glass, then the water is channeled down and out thru those tubes connected to the tracks, mud daubers (Wasp cousin) like little holes like that to build their nests in from underneath.

Road vibration over time can also cause them to disconnect, perhaps not installed properly on the assembly line.

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[TwentyTwentyThree]

Same issue of clogged drains happens with convertibles. My Boxster is prone to this issue. I purchased a trombone cleaner brush which does the trick of clearing blockages, and you get to answer the question "why do you have a trombone cleaner?"

The trombone cleaning kit looks too big to fit into the drain holes. It looks like weed wacker line might be best bet?

 

[TwentyTwentyThree]

This is why I'll never own another vehicle with a moon roof or T tops. Have had both leak on me and if you think about it, all it is is one huge hole in the roof, we shouldn't expect it to leak right?... wrong. They're designed to leak into a track just under the glass, then the water is channeled down and out thru those tubes connected to the tracks, mud daubers (Wasp cousin) like little holes like that to build their nests in from underneath.

Road vibration over time can also cause them to disconnect, perhaps not installed properly on the assembly line.

Lariat all came with sunroofs. I’m with you. If there was an option to opt out - I would.

 

[K6CCC]

Lariat all came with sunroofs. I’m with you. If there was an option to opt out - I would.

One of several reasons I did not want anything higher than a Flash.

 

[TwentyTwentyThree]

Since I always come through on my threads…

I did an extremely scientific experiment. Since yall like the metric system, I grabbed two ONE LITER bottles of water and poured each bottle directly into the sunroof drain area quarter. Just as expected, water poured out in the wheel well area very fast, let me reiterate — there is no clog on a brand new truck. It is nonsensical to even hypothesize this.

Now, since I parked the truck in the same exactly location I then poured water into the center area and immediately saw the problem — the design of the gutter system. Running perpendicular to the sunroof are these gutters. In the way that a truck is parked, the water has nowhere to go. So it pools there.

Please observe the image below. I am all ears (eyes?) for solutions other than “don’t park there bro”

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