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squish

Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 5:05 am

Joined: May 14, 2014
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Hey guys and girls

My poor pug has a broken sunroof, when we had a really nice day (british weather) I decided to open my sunroof, however the motor had decided to stop working completely, now ive got an inch gap Sad

and as the weather has turned again my car is going to get very wet Sad

... cars a 1998 206 1.6 8v lx with panoramic sunroof. Any help would be most appreciated. Ohh yes I found it bloody difficult to get to the motor are there any tips?

Thanks in advance Very Happy

Timon2210

Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 2:15 pm

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To have access to the motor,you need to take the doom light off,and you can see the motor fixed in there,it's a dead motor i believe.


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davemc1963

Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:53 pm

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I'm not sure if this will help the original poster, as it was some weeks ago now, but here goes anyway:-
As a new member who was looking for info on a stuck 206 'Panoramic' sunroof and not finding very much in the way of factual information to explain how to close it when it decides to throw its hand in, I hope the following will help someone else.
My car is in Spain (UK spec RHD), so that dosen't help, as everything in Spain is twice as hard to do, or twice as expensive as in the UK.
Anyway, My (our) 206 sunroof jammed this morning when I tried to open it and it opened or should I say moved just enough to see daylight and then jammed soild. No whirring, just the switch 'click'and motor trying to turn, but refusing to operate the mechanism open or closed. Anyway, when I got back from my journey, I had a look in the trusty (useless) Haynes manual that tells you that it is too complicated to mend, with the headlining requiring to be removed "which is a complex and tedious operation in itself"and to go to a Peugeot dealer. What a cop-out! I remember when Haynes manuals actually explained how to do things useful!
Anyway to the nitty gritty and how to close it (NOT FIX IT However!). Now I didn't note the exact sizes required, but you will need three different (small) torq drivers and a flat bladed screwdriver, the largest torq bit for the grab handles above the doors and the other smaller two for the sun visors, You may get away with not removing the grab handles, but could damage the headlining if you dont. Try it by all means, it is possibly do-able without.

1) Remove both sun visors and retaining clips. (3 screws total)
2) Using a flat bladed screwdriver from the R/H side to access two springy retaining clips, carefully remove the interior light and disconnect the electrical plug. (This is necessary to access the two clips that hold the light / sunroof switch housing to the roof/headlining).
3) Release the two clips mentioned above with your fingers and lower the sunroof switch/light housing. There's not a lot of weight it should be ok to let it hang down.
4) Slide back the screw covers and remove the screws securing the two grab handles. Remove the handles.
5) Carefully pull back the rubber seals around the front and sides of the sun roof aperture, A pillar trims and the tops of the doors enough to release the headlining so that it hangs down at the front.

You can now see the motor, relay, wiring and various fixings and fasteners looking from the sun roof aperture through the now loosened headlining.
In the center of the motor you will see a 4mm female Hex that can be turned with either an 'Allen' key or a 4mm hex bit and a small ratchet or similar. To be honest, mine was really stuck!tight. I freed it by operating the switch (Ignition on, but be carefull with 12v wires in there) and turning the hex with a very small ratchet at the same time. Using the small ratchet (like the ones you get in the multi piece sets from Aldi and the like) was a good move, because when the motor frees off, it free wheels with the ratchet if you know what I mean and wont spin around like an Allen key will. (You have been warned here, if you are trying to turn it with the switch and it frees off, IT WILL SPIN QUITE FAST and take anything in its path with it - wires/fingers etc!) If it moves, all well and good, it might take a few goes. To Close the roof, You need to turn the Hex as if you were tightening up a normal R/H thread fastener! However, my mechanism obviously needs repair, so I was just glad that I could close it at this time.
As most of you will know at this stage, the sunroof shares the same fuse as the electric windows, which didn't blow surprisingly, but as you will have noticed the sunroof is powered via its own relay which sits next to the motor. I disconnected this relay, so the sunroof cant be operated by someone else inadvertantly putting me back to this position.
Hopefully, you will free yours off like I managed to do and be able to close it. If not, more investigation is required.
Re-assembly of everything you removed is the reverse of the above steps. You will just need to ease the rubbers back over the headliner and if the A panel covers slip, just align the plastic locating pins and snap them back into place.
I have tried to write the above so that anyone can follow it, so it may be a bit simplistic for some, but I hope it will help someone else who finds themselves in the same situation with a stuck sunroof.
I had thought about making this a standalone post, let me know if you think it is warranted.

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