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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
I often wish I could go back in time and slap whoever ordered my car with a sunroof, and change it to no sunroof. I have no real clue as to what you are spending for the sunroof delete, but that is not a cheap project. I am guessing 15 to 20K if you do a full repaint on the roof.
In the 30 years I have owned my 911 I have opened the sunroof three times. In Acadia national park in Maine, In San Diego and Monterey, CA. Any other time the windows are up and the heat or AC is on.
My car is a fat pig at 2,741 pounds with full carpet and floor mats, and full OEM heater and four AC condensers and leather seats, a gallon of water in the washer bottle, huge battery. tool kit, and spare.
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Originally Posted by SCforme
Just curious, why not just remove the sunroof panel, motor and other equipment and weld in or bond in one of the readily available metal or carbon fiber panels designed to simply replace the existing sunroof panel? Seems like it would be a lot quicker, easier and less costly than replacing the entire roof.
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I recently did a glass out re-paint and had the sunroof deleted at that time. I opted for cutting out all the sunroof support sheet metal, retained the primary structural support of the roof and installation points for the bows (and additional bows now needed). Welded in the metal sunroof panel and the result was very minimal body work, filler, blocking, etc. and when looking at the roof, before and after paint, you can't tell there was ever a sunroof from the factory. All in, the incremental cost to do this on top of the paint job was ~$3k-4k. I had planned on repainting my car, so this was just a bit of added scope when I decided it was now or never! I'm not saying other methods/ways are wrong, merely offering my path as one solution.
