Changing sunroof, (everything)

[dilbert]

To change the sunroof everything heres what you need to do:



Tools required:
-   long skinny flathead screw driver
-   10mm ratchet
-   8mm ratchet
-   Phillips screwdriver
-   Needle nose pliers (maybe)

Procedure:
1.   Open sunroof all the way (using motor or hand crank it)
2.   Remove sunroof panel from car, 2 8mm nuts at back(one each side), 2 10mm bolts at front(one each side).  With two people slide the panel forward while holding the black plastic sliders from moving forward and therefore coming out of the metal rails.
3.   Push the two black plastic things that you just slid the panel off of forward as far as possible.  
4.   Go inside the car and remove the interior light
5.   The trim that goes across the back goes first.  Start at one end from the front of the car.  There are clips along the front side that all have to come off then that piece will slide toward the hatch.  
6.   The black ‘C’ trim around the doors needs to be removed just enough to get at the plastic edge around the top of the door.  
7.   Start about 5inches in from the door pillar at the back and with your flat head screw driver softly (its only plastic) find where the clips are and pop them out one at a time.  After you get about 4 out from across the top of the door you can bend the trim enough to get it out from under the trim at the back of the car.
8.   Repeat the same procedure on the other side of the car.
9.   Using your flat head remove the two sun visors and the clips.
10.   This part is where I thought I broke my rearview mirror but didn’t.  You have to just pull on the rear view mirror straight down! There is a metal clip that holds it up.  When it comes off you will hear a snap.  It did it to me too but nothing broke, it’s just the metal clip coming around the head of the screw that is used to hold it up.  When you get it off you will see that now there is a black plastic piece attached to the roof and in the center you will see a little circle of metal with little clips on it and on the mirror there is a screw head that the clips go around.  The grey plastic cover that is on the mirror mount point can now be removed with a screw driver for reinstallation later.  If you can get the plastic cover off before all the power to you.  I just ended up pulling on mine because I couldn’t get it off then I figured out how it was held up there and figured that was the only way to get it.  Now remove the plastic plate that is still attached to your roof.  
11.   You should have only 3 white plastic thingies holding up the roof panel now.  Take them out.  If you can keep them in one piece cool, if not it don’t matter because they don’t really hold the panel up when the trim is on anyway.
12.   The panel should slide forward and out of the trim at the back.  Then you can remove it out the hatch.
13.   You should now see the whole sunroof assembly.  Take out all of the 10mm bolts that are holding the metal bracket up.  DO NOT take out the two front ones yet or the bolt that is actually on the motor.  The back of the bracket has two metal tabs that will hold it up when used in conjunction with the front screws.
14.   Take you screw driver/pliers and unhook the electrical clip and remove all places where the wire is clipped to the bracket or along the driver’s side roof.
15.   Now carefully take out the two front bolts and slide the whole assembly backwards so that the two tabs come out of their holes.  
16.   Remove the whole bracket assembly.
17.   Fix what ever you wanted to and put it back in.
18.   Installation is pretty straight forward.  Just do everything in the opposite steps that you took stuff out in.  
19.   When you are done put grease your rails. And run your sunroof open and closed a few times to make sure it is closing properly.  This is best done before you put the interior panel back on just incase something is out or wrong.  

This took me around 2-2.5 hours to remove two and install one.  Really it is not a hard thing to do.  It is pretty simple and straight forward.  Just be careful with your trim to not bend it or put too much force on it as then you will get little white lines which look like crap.  

Good luck.

[dilbert]

yes I just realized I put this in the wrong area.  So please move it. Thanks.

[neophish]

how did you get the black caps off?    cuz when i took it off i broke one of the black end caps. and i came to find that the other black cap wasn't even there on the other side....       so i need 2 new endcaps.   or something that could work as an endcap..        HELP!!

    so where could i get some new endcaps?    and once i get them, how do i get the rail piece in there and then cap it while it's in there?

[dilbert]

I'm not sure what you mean by the black caps.  But I think you mean the little black pieces of plastic that go on the ends of teh rails to stop the roof panel from comming off.  Their held on by little nuts,  after the nuts come off you can take them off. You would have to go to honda probably get new ones.  Just take what you have left of the old ones into honda to match them up to be sure their the same.

[mindy]

what if your sunroof won't open because it's off the track?  and how what about cost?  did you replace everything?  I need a new sunroof panel but I think everything else inside works ok.

[sxy_rexi]

fixing the track issue is a little bit of a pain in the ass but its not expensive.
mine would kinda open and fall off the track and get stuck and Id have to get it back onto the track to close it.
If you've got one side still on the track than you are in luck... try pushing on the sunroof as you press the sunroof button.

Just go to a junk yard and look for the parts, the yard here just gave them to me. If I remember correctly the top piece has like a screw and an 8 mm or something. This is probably the piece that is broken.  (little black plastic piece)

when putting it on try cracking the sunroof open a little bit before you get started because the lower screw/bolt is easy to access from the inside of the car

[mindy]

It's stuck and even the hand crank won't help.  I took it to honda hospital and they told me I needed  a completely new sunroof assembly @ $1200.... my motor still works, I will try  tomorrow......after I jumpstart my car!  I think those black stoppers are gone.  I guess I can order them from Honda.  Were those 8mm screws?  I have been thinking about ordering parts from Majestic Honda.  They are cheaper than the dealers I have used in the past but I am a little hesitant to order parts online.  I'll figure it out, I guess.  Thx, Sxy!
Mindy :qcheerleader: