Anyone got a lead on a NOS panoramic sun roof for Jetta Sport wagon?

[bkreigsr]

Also a bunch of Tiguans, Audi, Mercedes etc, etc.
I think they are all the same unit.
Mine is a 2014 TDI Sportwagen
The assembly is called a cassette, I think.

Extensive searching has discovered that this is a shortage of international proportions.

Roof is jammed in the cocked down-tilt position.

VW can't/won't fix it - citing a 3 year wait on the new part with a full deposit ($3700, +labor), and no guaranteed delivery date. - I've already dumped $2,400 into it in December to have a new shade installed.
No one I have talked to will even consider a roof assembly from a salvage yard.
(100% chance it will be damaged during removal)

Thanks in advance. Bill K

[RedBaron]

Cascade in Oregon has a pretty good reputation of finding NLA/NOS parts. Send them an email.

[bkreigsr]

Will do.
Thanks RB

[aigel]

Can you install a roof skin and effectively make it a sunroof delete? That car is practically totaled in its current state.

[fastfredracing]

Id find a way to get that locked back down and remove the button , relay or whatever . I went through this with our 3 series BMW wagon . The car was worth 6 k, the sunroof cassette was 4200, of fantastically cheap plastic linkage bits, all hewn from a single piece of broken .

[A930Rocket]

I don’t have any good ideas, but had a similar experience with a sunroof…

We had a Mercedes R350 and the sunroof stopped working. We took it to the Mercedes dealership in Charleston, to have it fixed, under warranty. They couldn’t fix it and said That’s all I could do. On a trip to Atlanta, we dropped it off at the Mercedes dealer in Roswell, and they fixed it quickly and easily.

Baker Mercedes-Benz in Charleston sucks.

[rockfan4]

Originally Posted by fastfredracing

Id find a way to get that locked back down and remove the button , relay or whatever . I went through this with our 3 series BMW wagon . The car was worth 6 k, the sunroof cassette was 4200, of fantastically cheap plastic linkage bits, all hewn from a single piece of broken .

I'm looking at pickups, saw an ad for a 2017 Ford with a similar large sunroof. The guy said they cut the wire on any they sell with that roof, same deal, plastic bits that can break at any time.

[2.7RS]

I have a friend that owns a large collision shop.

Due to supply chain and stupid cost of parts I've seen them opening the trim from the inside of the panoramic roofs moving the panels and gluing them with seam sealer.

May not be ideal but is water tight

[speeder]

Originally Posted by rockfan4

I'm looking at pickups, saw an ad for a 2017 Ford with a similar large sunroof. The guy said they cut the wire on any they sell with that roof, same deal, plastic bits that can break at any time.

Not the truck you want unless price is everything but wow, what an honest dealer. I want to buy from that guy!

[Dixie]

[KNS]

With a little care (practically none) a pre 1998 911 sunroof will most likely last forever.
Yet new cars are rendered unserviceable if the thing breaks. That's why I purchased my Golf Alltrack without the panoramic sunroof - too many issues with them.

[berettafan]

just here to say sunroofs are the devils work. I trust a DC politician more than a sunroof.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by KNS

With a little care (practically none) a pre 1998 911 sunroof will most likely last forever.
Yet new cars are rendered unserviceable if the thing breaks. That's why I purchased my Golf Alltrack without the panoramic sunroof - too many issues with them.

A few years ago I saw a brand new Fiat 500 with a sunroof in a showroom. The tracks (back plastic?) were external and covered in what looked like petroleum jelly. The first thing I thought is, there's no way I'd order that car with a sunroof.

[osidak]

back when I had a 2010 JSW TDI - I really wanted that sunroof - but I wanted a manual transmission more. Glad I dodged that bullet. The way I read the title of this thread I was going to come in here and say - RUN don't walk away from a car with that roof

[Tobra]

Hate sunroofs, don't use them, end up with them on most of my used cars

[911 Rod]

The Porsche shop manual for my 996TT says to cut the roof off to replace the sunroof.

[Otter74]

Yikes! I have a 2013 JSW that I bought as a CPO in March 2020. The two things I wanted were a manual and a sunroof. I love sunroofs, the bigger the better. But I am suspicious of, and slightly afraid of, the roof on my car. And rightly so, apparently. At least I still get light in with the roof closed.

only issue I ever had before with a sunroof is that after 25 years, one of the drain tubes on my SE-R's sunroof became unlodged and let water collect inside the body, and you know what happened after that. So the only meaningful rust the car has after 31 years, of which 25 years in the midwest, is due to water intrusion. And yet somehow I don't hold it against the car, or the roof.

[unclebilly]

My wife’s 958 Cayenne has the pano sunroof. It was great until one day, she hopped in, turned the ignition, and the sunroof screen retracted on its own and now won’t slide back into the covered position. The glass parts still work fine but we never open it.

[speeder]

I have a 2010 Jetta JSW with the pano roof and it's absolutely my least favorite thing about the car. Who puts a huge, heavy POS glass roof in a car without an opaque cover to slide over it?? VW, that's who. And the lousy mesh cover breaks 100 times out of 100, including on mine.

I have never opened it and put a large piece of cardboard on the inside of it to block the heat and light. This is after spending a lot of $$ to have an extra layer of ceramic tint put on it, the darkest possible. It still beams the sun onto your head, at least here in SoCal. I think that the affection for sunroofs, (as well as convertibles), is really location dependent. In places like MN., where people are deprived of UVs for much of the year and the sun is not that powerful, people crave it and like sunroofs. Here in LA, the sun is the most abundant thing there is and while it makes life beautiful, it can also really hurt you...even kill you. People have to actively protect themselves from it with shade, be it hats, tinted windows on vehicles, etc... This goes even more so in extremely hot places in the SW like Nevada, AZ. and everywhere more than 40 miles from the coast in CA.

I almost did not buy the car when I test drove it and felt like a bug under a magnifying glass but I figured that tint would solve it. Only partially true...the roof needed to be blocked-off completely. I feel for the OP and wish that I had something positive to add, just needed to rant about POS glass roofs.

[bkreigsr]

Originally Posted by RedBaron

Cascade in Oregon has a pretty good reputation of finding NLA/NOS parts. Send them an email.

I did hear back from Cascade - (post #2)
"Sorry, we have no supply of those, either."