Anyone know how to fix the sunroof to where it does'nt whistle at high speeds. I've tried closing it half way cause thats where you get max pressure on the seal but, it just pops back open when I'm doing about 80-90mph. Let me know how fix this so it's does'nt whistle.
240sx HB s13.
Sunroof Whistle
. I seriously don't know how to fix it... maybe find a new seal from a junkyard and try that?-
eniety
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I had the same problem with my old s13, but it also allowed water to leak into my car. I fixed it by putting a couple nuts on the latch. It tightened it up a lot. No more whistle, no more leaks.
Here, I just found this: http://www.240sx.org/faq/articles/sunroof_whistling.htm
This guy is saying that he used a washer, but a washer isn't enough. I had to use large nuts. No smart asss comments please : )
Here, I just found this: http://www.240sx.org/faq/articles/sunroof_whistling.htm
This guy is saying that he used a washer, but a washer isn't enough. I had to use large nuts. No smart asss comments please : )
you know what sucks about the putting it half closed? when your flying down the highway at like 115 pushing that speed limiter hoping to god that you dont pass a cop concentrating on not loosing control due to bump street cause you got half shot struts an WHHHHHHA BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM WHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHH the Damn thing smacks open n scares the holy SH1T out of you an yuo about swerve off that road cause you think you just lost a damn tire an your abuot to die in a fiery disaster .
thats what sucks an i swear it happens at least once a month to me, one of these days ill either fix it, get used to it, or die in a firey crash !! hopefull ill fix it soon
thats what sucks an i swear it happens at least once a month to me, one of these days ill either fix it, get used to it, or die in a firey crash !! hopefull ill fix it soon
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nissan_driver24
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I dunno if this is gonna help you guys but i have a '91 fastback and i two have expericence the annoyance of the sunroof whistling... you can solve this by maybe opening the sunroof? yes noise will still come in but it won't be whistling.... But this is wut i did to stop it.... couple of weeks ago i was reinstalling the sunroof on because i have taken it off on a hot day, so when i tired to install it back i did it i correctly and the damn latch broke... yes i tried the tacky way of fixing it by super glue, and no it didn't work cause the latch is under pressure when closed... so i called up nissan and they quoted meit would cost 50 buck, i was like wtf for this piece of plastic???? anyways there is this used nissan part shop near my house and they had an '89 sunroof which is really simalar to the 91 (maybe even the same i'm not sure) but i bought the latch for 20 bucks 
(better than 50 right??) when i installed it it was really surprised on how loud it was when i closed the sunroof... so i took it for a spin around the block and did 110mph to see if it would whistle, and long and behold it didn't whistle a bit... i was so freaking happy cause i'm usually going 80mph and that's when the whistling starts... so maybe this might help u guys???
Oh yeah the hardware that i got from the '89 (rubber spacers were a bit thinner than mine so maybe that's how i solved my problem.... and be careful about ur latch to not put so much pressure on it cause it might break....
(better than 50 right??) when i installed it it was really surprised on how loud it was when i closed the sunroof... so i took it for a spin around the block and did 110mph to see if it would whistle, and long and behold it didn't whistle a bit... i was so freaking happy cause i'm usually going 80mph and that's when the whistling starts... so maybe this might help u guys???Oh yeah the hardware that i got from the '89 (rubber spacers were a bit thinner than mine so maybe that's how i solved my problem.... and be careful about ur latch to not put so much pressure on it cause it might break....
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lateralmotion
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i bet if you used duck tape, and went all around the window on the outside to bridge the glass to the paint, that would cut down on that whistling pretty well. plus, there's black duct tape now, so don't even worry about the played-out appearance of "southern chrome." I myself used epoxy to completely seal the glass to to body. man i hope i never have to escape from the roof cause the power locks don't work under water. actually i think the whistling sounds kinda cool, maybe mine doesn't do it so much as others, but i think it sounds like a spaceship or something. another stupid joke, and good bandwidth wasted, by yours truely
slw240sx wrote:you know what sucks about the putting it half closed? when your flying down the highway at like 115 pushing that speed limiter hoping to god that you dont pass a cop concentrating on not loosing control due to bump street cause you got half shot struts an WHHHHHHA BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM WHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHH the Damn thing smacks open n scares the holy SH1T out of you an yuo about swerve off that road cause you think you just lost a damn tire an your abuot to die in a fiery disaster .
thats what sucks an i swear it happens at least once a month to me, one of these days ill either fix it, get used to it, or die in a firey crash !! hopefull ill fix it soon
lol thats some funny s***....hahahahaha! I know EXACTLY what you mean.
slw240sx wrote:you know what sucks about the putting it half closed? when your flying down the highway at like 115 pushing that speed limiter hoping to god that you dont pass a cop concentrating on not loosing control due to bump street cause you got half shot struts an WHHHHHHA BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM WHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHH the Damn thing smacks open n scares the holy SH1T out of you an yuo about swerve off that road cause you think you just lost a damn tire an your abuot to die in a fiery disaster .
thats what sucks an i swear it happens at least once a month to me, one of these days ill either fix it, get used to it, or die in a firey crash !! hopefull ill fix it soon
ahahahahaah sh.it im dying im diyng.
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midnightshadow
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i was coming home one night at like 3am going about 150Km/hr. half asleep, and my sunroof popped open. well i must have been just falling asleep cause i remember jumping, and locking up the brakes. it was wet out too which made it even worse. only good thing was that it was a straight section of road so when i started spinning i managed to stay straight. now i just put up with the whistling cause i'm too lazy to go out and pull some nuts out of the extras bin i have to fix it. that was by far the scariest moment in my life.