My sunroof had never worked since I bought the car, even with the

manual overide. So last night I removed the whole thing, took about

an hour with a friend.



Anyway, I discovered that the little tracks that run inside that copper (i think)

pipe are wrecked.. stripped in a couple of places, but overall, they are just stuffed!



So I was wondering if I can just order a new track section (you'll see what I mean by the photos), or do I need the whole sunroof assembly?



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Last one...

I am pretty sure that you can get the replacement pieces from a mazda dealership. Or contact mazdarecycling and get an entire replacement.

www.mazdarecycling.com



Dave

Does anyone know the part number for the replacement track assembly then?

sorry I don't know the part # you want but could you do us a favor and weigh that whole assembly before you put it back in the car? would be much appreciated, thanks.

I did the same thing bought a new assembly off ebay cleaned it up lubed it, cost me $40 for the assembly. I dunno what they cost from MAzda.

the parts are super hard to look up, and that whole assembly is really complex and its hard to get it working right again once you have it apart. i would put it back and pretend you dont have a sunroof



mike

You've done this before?



And yeah, I'll get the thing weighed for you pengaru

thanks a mil https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

It was like 28 lbs for mine shipped without the panel.

yea i just went to the bone yard and picked me one up out of an na (thats why its red and the cars black) it was pretty simple to do though

28 lbs with no skin? damn!



I wonder how much the skin part weighs, I might have to do something about that. It's way in the top of the car too, **** a bunch of that.

The assembly is 6.6kg, and the little panel weighs 4.8kg.



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I'm still confused about my problem though. So, can you get just the track section from Mazda? I don't want that whole assembly https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub..._DIR#>/dry.png

Before the question gets asked...



6.6kg = 14.52 lbs.

4.8kg = 10.56 lbs.



Conversion is 2.2lbs/kg

the parts are all seperate, and the picture is bad



mike

Put a piece of lexan in there.. still get plenty of sun (if you want it.. put some SPF on your head in the summer) and save some weight. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png

has anyone heard of adding one of those manual pop-up sunroofs? like the kind that people usually ad to a car with no sunroof to begin with

pengaru is always going for that super light weight car

still have yet to recieve a donor sunroof skin to make a FG one. The donor skin will not be harmed in any way.

I have an extra. PM or IM me with your info.