Sticky Sunroofs
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I am guessing you hit it to pop it up to open it and then its fine
The sunroof on ALL MX's stick, its basically the sun battering the rubber seal and then it expands slightly making it stick to the roof.
To fix it is easy, open the sunroof and look in the tracks, you will see loads of black crap in there, you need to solvent based electrical contact cleaner, this will dissolve the grease and muck and wash it away.
Then grease the tracks using silicone based grease only ( the other stuff will go hard in the sun and seize it )
When its all greased up then smear the same stuff around the edge of the rubber seal, this is what stops it opening and just lubing the edges will solve it for a while and just keep it well lubed and should be fine.
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^ thats the way to go…
oil based grease will rot the rubber seal, where as the silicon stuff wont.
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Thank you for your help.
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You can buy silicone grease from anywhere that sells paintball guns, a product I use for my paintball gun is called Sleek, made by Smart Parts, very good grease. A little pricey but very good, will try it on my own sunroof and post back. I tried red rubber grease on the seal, but its far too sticky, so dont waste your time using it. Isnt silicone meant to be bad on paintwork though?
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Maplins do 50g for about 4 quid and 70g aerosols for about a fiver.
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Maplins do 50g for about 4 quid and 70g aerosols for about a fiver.
Maploins stuff is the stuff I use, also look on there for electrical contact cleaner, its a spray that just dissolves old grease and perfect for cleaning it out with.
The Silicone is fine on paint
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they always seem to make a point of specifying that xxx brand car polish doesnt have silicone in it, thats why i thought that it was bad for it.
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Silicon is a paint sprayers nightmare!! that is all
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ahhhh, thats good to know, i like using silicone spray on locks but was afraid to use it incase it took the paint off!
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Its very hard to remove, you will need a solvent to clean it off properly
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think mine has some paint illness then cos it seems to come off on its own lol