Fixing Sunroof Leak

[volvogeek]

A while ago I posted a question about how to go about seeing where to fix a sunroof leak. Strangely enough, I couldn't find it in a search, but at the time I had absolutely NO idea where to even start to look - other than 'somewhere in the headliner area'. I figured the rear drain had come loose, gotten blocked, or something. I posed the question thinking someone else would have had a similar issue at some point...but no. No replies, nothing, not even a monkey off, eh?

So after our latest batch of torrential rainstorms here in the gloomy PNW, I finally got the car into the garage and had some time to start tearing into things. Trim peices popped off (I was expecting screws), and after about 20 minutes of searching for various tools to get the two 10mm bolts that held the rear right-hand passenger grab handle (most of my tools are not where the car lives anymore), I was able to pull down the headliner to reveal this:

The culprit revealed. The drain hose is either far too short or someone yoinked on it from the back...where it had LOTS of slack. I muscled it back up about an inch or so and reconnected it like so:

However, the damage had already been done. I noticed the problem a while ago, but at the time it hadn't been raining so fricking bad. And when it WAS, I took the precaution of parking the car front-down on the driveway:

The wife can barely park the car in the driveway in the forward direction, so she wasn't doing this...and we had a little kiddy pool going on in the tire well:

(excuse the mess in there, smallest child decided to circumvent the 'no food in car' rule with a smuggled pop-tart)

Just need to find a working shop vac to evacuate the water...none of the THREE water-capable vacuums I had at my disposal this evening worked worth a Darn. Maybe I'll be able to steal the car from her or perhaps convince her to take it to a carwash with those huge cannister vacuums and suck the water out. Something...until I can once again reclaim MY car. *grumble*

[Gregg]

man, that sucks. at least you fixed it. just use a couple of towels to soak up the water. then toss the towels in the wash. easy & cheap

[the underlørd]

man, that sucks. at least you fixed it. just use a couple of towels to soak up the water. then toss the towels in the wash. easy & cheap

or siphon it out.. :)

[MadeInJapan]

Good think you found the culprit and it was an easy fix. Mine is rusted under the rubber weather stripping and will need all of that taken off, the rust removed and the weather stripping replaced. The hose in question was connected on mine although I suspected it was off too. I did find at least a temporary solution (read my post further up from yours).