Hi,

 

I have a 91 Legacy Turbo, a beautiful car, but just the other day a piece of my sunroof broke. It is a little metal arm that is attached to the wind deflector and fastened to the inside ledge of the sunroof on the passenger side (same thing on the driver's side too). The arm lets the deflector spring up when you open the sunroof and retracts it when you close it. The arm just broke off completely at the bolt on the inside ledge so now it sticks up and prevents the sunroof from closing (unless I get out and hold the deflector down with one hand). How/where can I find a replacement part to get this fixed? I'm afraid the dealer with won't have it or will say I have to buy a whole new sunroof! Maybe I could just get the deflector changed? Any thoughts?

 

Thanks!

Hi,

 

I have a 91 Legacy Turbo, a beautiful car, but just the other day a piece of my sunroof broke. It is a little metal arm that is attached to the wind deflector and fastened to the inside ledge of the sunroof on the passenger side (same thing on the driver's side too). The arm lets the deflector spring up when you open the sunroof and retracts it when you close it. The arm just broke off completely at the bolt on the inside ledge so now it sticks up and prevents the sunroof from closing (unless I get out and hold the deflector down with one hand). How/where can I find a replacement part to get this fixed? I'm afraid the dealer with won't have it or will say I have to buy a whole new sunroof! Maybe I could just get the deflector changed? Any thoughts?

 

Thanks!

I would check boneyards for parts. Or just take the deflector out completely??

The exact same thing happened to my '90. The die cast metal part broke at the hole around the acorn nut. I haven't fixed mine yet but was able to take the deflector side and wedge it under the acorn nut so it looks "fixed" and it works fine opening and closing until someone grabs the deflector and pulls it down (like my kids) then it pops back out.

 

I need to do this myself but I thought a very thin washer under the acorn nut would widen the surface well enough to be a permanent repair without raising the acorn nut into the actual sunroof.

The exact same thing happened to my '90. The die cast metal part broke at the hole around the acorn nut. I haven't fixed mine yet but was able to take the deflector side and wedge it under the acorn nut so it looks "fixed" and it works fine opening and closing until someone grabs the deflector and pulls it down (like my kids) then it pops back out.

 

I need to do this myself but I thought a very thin washer under the acorn nut would widen the surface well enough to be a permanent repair without raising the acorn nut into the actual sunroof.

Thanks, turns out that even though I wasn't able to get the arm back under the nut when it was open, after I got the sunroof closed and opened it again the arm had set back into place under the nut. It works fine again and since I won't be touching the deflector that's good enough for me!