How to fix leaking Volvo sunroof (Parts in Description)
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- Volvo XC90 Sunroof Fix
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I had the same problem with water pooling under passenger set foot well. Check sunroof drain holes and sure enough, they were clogged. Tried your solution and it worked great.
A thousand thank yous!! This was my problem and they were clogged. Just unclogged them and they drain beautifully now!!!
That’s great you got it! No more swimming pool. 😉
My wife wrecked our Volvo V40 some time back and I've been working on making it drivable as my secondary car, so not invested in a lot of body shop work and just doing what I can...was going good until out of nowhere the sunroof started leaking like crazy. I had no idea what was happening and felt this was the last straw and that I would just send it off to the junk yard...this video saved my car! I REALLY like my Volvo, dents and all, and am happy that this fix only required some trimming line and elbow grease! Thank you!
The weed eater string did the job! Thank-you!!!
The cheapest tool!
Researching this problem for my 2012 XC60 and yours seems to explain the solution best. I had over an inch of water in my front passenger foot well. Used a little wet/dry shop vac to get most of it out, and ran a small dehumidifier for two days which got it bone dry. I'm also going to pick up one of those silica gel desiccants ("moisture absorbers" as Home Depot calls them) and see what happens. Now on to actually fixing the problem as per your video.
It’s rough driving around and it sounds like there’s a swimming pool under your feet. The small dehumidifier is an excellent idea! I hope you’re able to get it fixed.
Did u fix the issue?
@@juniorgarcia5344 I paid a Volvo mechanic to snake it out for me and take care of a few unrelated things, and it's fixed now.
Thank you for this. I didn't have a clog but the hose that runs along the side of the window had completely come out of the fitting that takes the water from below the window and out.
That’s rough. I guess they shrink over time from heat and we find out later with the rain.
Yes! This is the fix we've been looking for but not finding for over a year now and it worked like a chatm. Thanks so much for the helpful post friend!
Awesome! I'm glad you were able to fix it.
Thanks so much for posting this. I need to fix the leak and remove the A-pillers for redoing the headliner. Also, thanks for not using the usual techno music too many others play in the background.
Thank you and the headliner is a fun one to do, I hope it goes well.
Great video. Very helpful indeed. Will check and clean mine this weekend. Thank you
I'm FR, thanks guy, I've same problem on my V70 mk2 : right side foot was a pool when it raining. But unfortunatly raining 24/7 at this period in my home. Sorry for my bad english level.
I kept a floaty for my passenger's just in case they fell into the pool. 😉
I would also take a small brush and clean the drain area because dirt settles there and then over time is carried down the tube
Oh good call. 😎👍
Great Video. To the point without a lot of rhetoric. Thank you for that.
Once I found the drain hole it was easy .My Volvo has a bar which runs across from side to side to act as a windbreaker,it was hidden under that .Now I see this video is clear but what a mess my old girl is 22 years old and clean.
Thank you! I’m going to go try this right now.
You rock. Water is pooling on the passenger side floor, which may be indication of a larger problem, but this at least helps me rule out any issues and hopefully gives the mechanic one less thing to trouble shoot (the more hrs he spends on it, the more $$$). It also makes sense for some issues - water pools up in the overhead lights (!!!). We’ve received a lot of rain in DE, and I park under our pine trees. My xc60 is always covered with pine needles, and I’m sure other dirt and gunk is in there. Seems like good maintenance.
When you say “leaky sunroof”, where does the leak come from in the interior? Drips from above, or just rolls down the pillar and saturates?
2 issues are that it comes in through the sunroof because it just backs up and it will soak your headliner and and go into your overhead lights, or where the rubber adapter goes into the pillar, that comes out. Either way, water will run down to into the floor compartment and fill up stuff on the way down. Thanks for watching. 😁👍
ProZack's Projects I’m thinking about just being proactive and replacing the black adapter joints (with my luck, I will break one). Just throwing this out there - do you (or anyone else for that matter) happen to know the part number for that? It’s impossible to find on volvowholesaleparts website,
Video is incredibly useful ❤❤❤
A pillars have keepers behind them that secure them during curtain airbag deployment. If keepers not replaced the pillars can dislodge and cause injury under the force of the airbag.
Just went through the car wash to get the snow and salt off. Yeah probably a whole water bottle full just spilled upon me definitely gonna be doing this tomorrow.
Oh that’s rough. May it go well for you.
@@ProZacksProjects it’s the seal around the actual glass itself
thank you for the detailed problem solution. I was so nervous today when I noticed I had my car leaking and was wondering if it was from the window sealing or what... ufff it actually made my day.
Tomorrow is a fixing day :)
Thank you and have a nice weekend
Where u able to fix that issue?
@@juniorgarcia5344 yes I was, it was easy.
Thanks for your video! Will be trying it! was much more clear than the others I've seen. I hope I don't screw it all up! It'll check in another time to tell ya how it goes! Thnx!
I hope it worked for you!
I'm still trying! Thanks! ❤️
I did it!! Disregard my questions! Thanks for your video and encouragement!
@@AngelaBackman-mr2iw that’s excellent!
@ProZack's Projects it was hard tho!
Thank you very much for your video
There is a rubber drain plug right under your puddle, just pull it out to get rid of that water.
My 2005 V50 I just bought, had moisture on the passenger front floor. The sunroof motor/electronics were not working either. After driving a few weeks (at 100K) one day a bunch of warning messages lit up, "steering failure", brake failure, "engine damage soon" etc maybe a couple more. Parked for a few weeks until I got the overhead light panel off today (and it has 2 cracks on the narrow edge of either side). AND IT WASN'T PLUGGED IN! So this could be an old problem and a mechanic disconnected it, or it came lose. Part of the motivation was I noticed 2inches of water behind the passenger side last week (its tipped up to inspect the driver side front brake), vaccumed it out, then noticed the window open an inch, so closed that a couple days ago...and there is another inch of water? Today, I got the A-pillars off. Nothing appears to be clogged, but the 3/8 tubes down the A-pillars have 'shrunk' and were almost too easy to pull out of the lower half of the drain tubes. I fabricated an extension to make the upper tubes 1/2inch longer to stay in rubber connector.
That is ROUGH! I hope your ankle to get the bugs worked out. I have found that these Volvo's are a constant project it seems. I'm going to have to rebuild my transmission here pretty soon. 😩
Black rubber adapters at the end are the problems. I took them off and replaced with bigger pipe by putting water line in it, now it will never break as rubber.
Can you show how to troubleshoot the two back drainage tubes.
You have to pull the headliner to access those, but as far as I know, the rear drains don't have an issue.
This worked great. Thank you!!
I would hit it with some compressed air.
The one in cans should have a similar sized straw to make it clear.
That's a great idea and easier.
Thanks so much
I wonder if you could have blown it out with a blow gun and compressor. Or. If that would be a good maintenance measure to keep the lines clear and extend the life of the drains
That would be a really good thing to do. I don’t think that would create any issues but then again if the lines has shrunk like they did on mine then it would just leak even better into the car. Although if you knew they were good then this would be great maintenance. Thanks for the idea!
Are there rear drains on the sunroof as well ? If so would like to see a video on accessing them. Thank You for this video.
I had pulled my headliner to replace it and saw that the rear drains go straight out the back of the side rails on the sunroof. I haven't heard of this being an issue since debris probably doesn't make it back there to plug it.
I used compressed air to fix mine.
Can we see the outlet points ? Water exit Thanks Man.
Any tips on doing the same on the XC60 (2009) which has an airbag in the A post.
Speed Demon mine has the airbags in the a pillar as well. Look up videos of the xc60 a pillar cover removal and you might be able to find out if the removal process is different.
Thank you. My 1990 Volvo 740 GL wagon gave me an unexpected shower just after I'd left the driveway yesterday. This is the last car I will ever own and cannot buy another. I've had this one for 9 years, never cranked open the sun roof - and, I'm hoping that water simply froze in the tube, causing the shower - but I doubt that. (No garage, so can't get it warmed up). Anyway, thank you for showing the details. The abbreviations used in such videos and on auto forums are numerous and add a layer of angst. Too, for me, getting an exteior shot of the vehicle was very helpful, as I found on ua-cam.com/video/ZHgRWM1BzFE/v-deo.html and only there, after searching. Thank you, again. I now know enough to have a sense of what a mechanic would be faced with doing. There is only one mechanic around here who has worked on Volvos with any degree of expertise.
maybe a stupid question, but all that water goes into those holes even if the sunroof is closed? im assuming that some kind of sealing happens when you close the sunroof
It’s not a stupid question. The sunroofs don’t seal so there’s these drains in the front and back.
thanks man
How about accessing the the rear drains
You have to pull the headliner for those. They typically don't give you issues because very little debris gets back there to plug them.
I have a 2008 v-70 handholds are in a different place. The airbag is on the Pilar and afraid to mess w it - thoughts? Y handholds are directly above window?
To mes
So use an air compressor and blow it out?.
SO both of mine drain and make a sputtering sound.. water is not coming out though... what do you think is going on?
It sounds like it's draining into your floor board and it might be partially plugged causing the sputtering sound. I hope your able to fix it. You can do it! 😉👉
Stuck a tube down into the hole and blew it out and poured bleach down it for good measure just like an a/c drain works great too bad previous owner let it leak and ruined the headliner!
does this work for '10 xc70?
It might. The cover on the eight pillar is probably going to be different than mine. Look up how to remove the a pillar cover and that will reveal the hose coming from the sunroof. Then you can kind of eyeball it and see if they’re similar. Sorry I can’t be of more help.
What kind of string did you use to clear drain tube??
Weed eater nylon string
Make sure to clean those nasty rails unless you want to clear that sediment every year.
That’s a good point!
Where can you get that "string" thing?
Sorry for ther late reply but if you haven't found it already, the hardware store or a lawn equipment store will have string for a weed trimmer.
How to fix a sun shade roof ,the motor seem not working it jam open the shade that is ?
There’s 4 little sliders that are on top of the shade that hold it in place and if those get jammed up then it won’t slide. When that happens, if you want to use your sunroof, order the replacement guide clips and then pull the shade back, remove the glass, then slide it closed and replace the clips.
that design is a joke, resulting with water in the floor , anti skid electronics flooded and ruined and headliner ruined by moisture, often also CEM destroyed, car dies as a result of that.
Yeah, my yaw rate sensor is ruined and I'm surprised the amp still works. That's part of the reason I replaced the headliner. It's a fantastic design....Not! Thanks for watching. 🙂
Hey guys, I bought a 2004 XC90 from my little sister who neglected the heck out of it and it had water under the carpets but just a few days ago it started giving the anti-skid failure warning. I already fixed the drains and pulled the carpet to dry it out, but do you know if the anti-skid/yaw sensor can be replaced without programming it? I bought VIDA DICE already since I knew the poor car would need it since it was neglected but I don't know if a new sensor needs to be programmed to the car? Thanks guys.
@@teejayb5902 that's a great question. Honestly I haven't seen anything that says it needs to be programmed but that doesn't it doesn't need programmed. I need to replace mine as well but I have transmission stuff to address first. If you find out please let me know because that's a gifs tid bit of info. Thank you.
@@ProZacksProjects So, I noticed that the anti-skid message would disappear sometimes and come and go when braking or turning, so I figured maybe the water was sometimes touching the sensor causing a short or something but since the message wasn't on permanently I tried cleaning the contacts on the harness that plugs in to the yaw sensor. The plug had some green oxidation powder inside of it on the pins (like what happens with battery terminals) so I used isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs to get it all cleaned out and the message hasn't come back! It's only been less than a day so it's still early to tell, but the sensor is a sealed unit and looks waterproof so I bet a lot of these anit-skid failures are just caused by corroded connections in the harness. Hope that helps you at least.
@@TJBilyk that is excellent. I will give that a whirl. Thank you!
This is why I won’t buy a car with a sunroof
You are wise
Which volvo duh !
It’s a 2003 XC90