Another sunroof drain post - but success

[Worzella]

Good day! My 2012 had a left side sunroof drain that worked but right side not so much. Losing sleep thinking about all the posts I have read about drain water going to under carpet, frying modules, etc.

So decided to tackle it today. One trick that worked for me was to put trimmer wire through a thin brass rod and then it was very easy to get trimmer string into drain hole.

Pushed it through as far as it would go and even slowly backed it out with a drill. Still clogged.

Then decided to pull air intake vent cover and once I got this off, I fed trimmer wire into ****** and moved it in/out up/ down and success!..water started draining. Ran a couple cups of hot water through after.

Now back to that bloody air intake cover. Almost gave up but used an old credit card (it will get trashed!) to push down on the top right clip. Once you get one to pop, then get other top and two lower clips. All good, silver cover out...

Then you pull the rubber intake duct behind the cover out, but it is stapled to a tubular felt tube. Just pull it out. Behind that is a rubber piece that needs to also get yanked.

Once all out I pushed trimmer cable into ****** at top left and jiggled and push/pulled till...success..water flowed out. Did a few more wiggle/jiggle wire runs and then put it all back together!

Next nightmare project is electric parking brake. Special place in hell for morons who decided this was a good idea!

 

[Worzella]

Ha ha....apparently this forum software is a bit prudish...pushing something into a hole must be replaced with *****

 

[richord]

I'm about to undertake this fix. Thanks for posting.

Do you recommend lubricant before pushing things in into holes? I wonder if the software will bleep this.

 

[itsaguything]

I’d think keeping it clean would be the answer. Lube becomes sticky, attracts and keeps dirt, then you are back to square one.

 

[Worzella]

I was just very careful inserting, made sure the tip of the trimmer string was not sharp and kind of pushed in a bit, then backed off doing this the whole way.