ok it been raining for about a day.. and i havent driven the maxima at all, so i get in it to go to the bank and as soon as i put it in gear water starts poring down the rear right corner on the sun roof...A LOT OF IT!!! like a waterfall OMG... i grabed a towel and started drying everything and turned my car around (on the hill) so the water would drain out through the other drains..

-has anyone experienced this? what did you do to unclog the drain?

 

id say that your sunroof has a "slight" leak in it, since it was sitting the way that it was, it probably collected in the roof somewhere or up above the coverthat slides over it, the car might have been angled in such a way that it did not come into the car, but stayed up there, and that slight movement made the water shift. so id say that you have a leak near the rubber seal. hope this helps!

 

.....aahh everyone sunroof leaks, we have drains on all 4 corners of the sunroof fixture and they should drain the water out... but one is cloged and i was thinking about shooting air down the hose to clear it out.... has anyone else had a blocked drain?

 

definitely clogged drain...try the compressed air route w/ a blow gun (not that one you pervs).

 

I'd carefully stick a coat hanger in there before I do the compressed air route..

compressed air can sometimes cause the blockage to be pushed forward and clog even worse than it was before.. using a coat hanger with the end balled up on it will work better. you can usually break it up or at least pull it out in chunks. (ever seen a roto-rooter drain cleaner?)

 

hmmm...ok...better idea.

 

- 100

Car: 92 ve5 TT

 

Happened to me last summer while it was raining, except it was leakin in the front. my drain hole in the front right got clogged with all those propeller things that fall from the trees and the water just started pourin out the seams. I used a screw driver cause thats all i had wit me at the time, but i would also use a coat hanger before compressed air, for the same reason that Matt said.

 

well you should have known you had a problem when you found that big piece of ice in the headliner. You should have addressed the problem then instead of waiting until it rained.

Follow the advice already given...I just wanted to add my .02 about not fixing it sooner.

 

Coat Hanger it is...then tomorrow i will shoot some air in it..

awsm66 - well, its hard to work on the car in 10 degree weather but i thought i fixed it after i found that big chunk of ice...guess not,
im not a type of person that would find a problem and do nothing about it... these things bother me all day long.
offtopic- i just put on some """zinc""" coated rotors and now that its raining the front has a few little oxidation spots... i thought zinc rotors never did that. thats what i have been thinking about all day untill the waterfall problem.

 

well there will be spots where the pads run that rust. The pads wear the zinc off so it will rust in those places but it shouldnt in the other places unless the zinc is knocked off.

 

this happened to me once too chris, just be happy it didnt **** all over a $250 monitor. also I havent had a chance to get to the post office yet but Im gonna do my best to get there by mid week.

 

eekk.. omg, that blows.
-what did u do?
this is an entire hanger inside the drain...played around with it trying to pull SOMETHING out.. but there was nothing there...

 

hanger, but I didnt pull anything up, and then I blew it out with an air gun.

 

i dint even use air..while i was swapping out my sunroof, i got my garden hose from garage and put the nozzle on jet and i aimed it right into the hole and blasted it..i put a few black garbage bags inside and barely anything got wet.