How To: Sunroof sunshade

Post by **wa-chiss** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:33 pm

With the summer heat and the summer sun, I bet most of you have the shades that go in the windsheild. For those of us that have sunroofs, nothing is keeping the sun from entering it and heating things up. That is unless your lucky enough to have the factory unit. I don't so I made my own.

Remove sunroof:

Remove the hinges and brackets:

Fab work starts:

The finished product:

This was my 1st crack at interior fabrication. Hope yall like it.

Post by **silpena** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:43 pm

ooo i like it. Pretty nifty. I'm gonna have to try this one out soon.

Post by **pflicht** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:12 am

thats pretty freakin sweet! I wanna sunroof real bad! I miss my power sunroof that was on my 90 S13

Post by **White Comet** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:19 am

cool idea but does it make a noticeable difference?

Post by **2.4Loflove** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:20 am

White Comet wrote:cool idea but does it make a noticeable difference?

come live down in GA, and you'll see that you need all the help you can get in the summer months. I'm going to have to do this soon, it's already getting in the upper 80's down here. Props on the right up!

Post by **White Comet** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:27 am

i just figured that a good window tint woudl do the job since the sunroof is such a small area

Post by **srpowered240sx** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:50 am

nice, clean, simple, effective........most hookers can only pull off 2 of the 4 at any given time, you nailed them all, good job.

Post by **Arrow** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:58 am

I've thought about a near black tint too... I mean, you never use a sunroof to look out of - just to keep cool. So who cares if you have some serious tint on it?

But that is an awesome idea and write-up!

Post by **wa-chiss** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:06 am

I've been thinking of tinting it but if it weren't for that black half *** painted on tint crap I would have tinted it. I'm thinking I would have some serious bubbling shortly after tinting. Plust, the sunroof already had the mounts. I just had to make something to mount to them.

White Comet wrote:cool idea but does it make a noticeable difference?

I'll tell you in a few days. Gotta try it out ya know.

Post by **kasey352** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:40 am

Great right up props.

Post by **livinglegend2100** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:02 am

nice dude. looks really clean. and fairly easy to accomplish. i just tinted mine though. did close to 10 layers of niteshade. will definately be interesting to see how it holds up to summer heat. i may be going your route instead. nice DIY by the way.

Post by **GeorgeZilla** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:13 am

Really nice writeup . I still have my OEM shade, but now i've gotta make one of these.

Post by **koukicody** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:33 am

wa-chiss wrote:I've been thinking of tinting it but if it weren't for that black half *** painted on tint crap I would have tinted it.

exactly! If you try to tint over that stuff it turns into bubble city!

Post by **dickie** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:35 am

good idea!

Post by **koroshiya** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:49 am

i got the oem shade but thats dope

Post by **livinglegend2100** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:16 pm

koukicody wrote:
exactly! If you try to tint over that stuff it turns into bubble city!

you gotta tint the OUTSIDE of the sunroof. much like, taillights, and then clearcoat it. theres no way you could tint over that black mesh crap on the inside..

Post by **wa-chiss** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:30 pm

GeorgeZilla wrote:Really nice writeup . I still have my OEM shade, but now i've gotta make one of these.

Can I bother you for a picture of the factory unit. I'm curious as to the shape of it.

Post by **le_ryan** » Thu May 01, 2008 1:27 pm

SNAZZY !Well done man.

Post by **xckid** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:18 pm

wa-chiss wrote:
Can I bother you for a picture of the factory unit. I'm curious as to the shape of it.

the factory one looks just like the one made, only with camo, i have the factory shade also but mine cracked so its hella hot down here and im f'ed

Post by **wa-chiss** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:39 pm

vroom-chirp wrote:SNAZZY !Well done man.

See, you're not the only one now.

I have some material leftover. I might make a glovebox door cover outta it. Then maybe I'll do the door accents, arm rest cover, shift boot, and the ashtray cover. All in this camo material.

Post by **21nemesis** » Thu May 01, 2008 7:59 pm

If you're gonna tint the sun roof, you've gotta do the bake method. I went to a couple of tint shops and they said not many places do the bake method anymore, cuz it's pretty pricey. Most cars that come with factory tint have gone through the baking process.

My question is...How does the cover fair when you tilt it up and are driving on the highway?

Post by **le_ryan** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:21 pm

should look pretty sweet, take some pics when you do .

Post by **thundertiger25** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:56 pm

wow I'm gonna have to try this!

Post by **wa-chiss** » Fri May 02, 2008 3:58 pm

21nemesis wrote:My question is...How does the cover fair when you tilt it up and are driving on the highway?

Not bad acually. It doesn't let as much air in but it doesn't make any noise at all either. I can litterally feel the difference while driving in the sun with the shade on. I usually have the A/C on full blast and still was a little warm. But, without the sun beating in on me from above, I stay cool and don't need the A/C on full blast.

Post by **Nacho_240** » Sun May 04, 2008 6:27 pm

Great idea! I'll be doing this sometime soon.

Post by **Nacho_240** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 10:04 pm

I just completed mine. I like it! Don't mind the blurry spots in the center of the pics...

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