well it was.
when I got my max the sunroof tracks were broken, but it all worked
yesterday (or was it monday?) I went to my buds yard and picked up a sunroof assembly and the Z32 wheels.
the assembly caused the premature demise of the donors interior for me to pull it out.
if you ever need to do this yourself, you do not need to pull the whole ASSembly. the rails themselves come out fairly easily once you figure it out.

Brief How-to:
1: take off plastic trim by glass (one screw then slide forward)
2: undo 8 bolts holding sunroof glass
3: remove the glass (out the top) be careful to keeo the shims handy
4: at the front of the bracket is a pin with an E-clip, take off the e-clip and push the pin out
5: then remove the E-clip from the pin that goes through the track itself.
6: Important point!!! there is a roll clip in the assembly that has to be pushed out carefully
7: do the reverse to reinstall it.
you may want to add some shims for a better fit though, I had to add a bunch on mine

 

Yay...

No more flopity flop....

 

yeah, I got ambitious after my window fell this morning, freaking window regulators good thing I had a spare .
I would have taken pics for this how to but the tracks were too greasy for me to make my camera all filthy.

 

i had this problem since '02 and up until last month i came across finally fixin' it. and i did the same exact thing to 1 out of 5 3rd gens in the junkyard just for me to take out the broken rails and in fact i ended up ruinin' the whole headliner in one of them until i figured it out by just undoin' the e-clips to take out the rails. luckily all this was done at the junkyard and not on my own car. took me like 45 min. to fix the damn thing and lube up all the small parts and in the end i was happy cuz i finally fixed this damn thing. it got annoyin' goin' at high speeds and lookin' at my roof just flop up and down and makin' sure that its closed correctly.

 

So let me get this right I need to get some rails and follow instructions above and this will fix my sloppy sunroof? Where can I get the rails? Anybody have them new (nissan?) or do I have to go junking?

 

this repair is only valid if the track that the sunroof goes up and down on is CRACKED.
my tracks were broken in 2 places on both sides.
they are not sold seperately as far as I know, but the WHOLE assembly only cost me $15.

mine was so bad that I could push the sunroof up with my hand and see light out the back

BTW, the screw is a #2 philips and the nuts are a 10mm. I also used a couple of picks for the e-clip and roll pin

 

Thanks I will check it out tomorrow and see what is going on.

 

Good to hear you got it fixed. Thanks for the write up.

 

Does anyone else have rust on the metal thing that surrounds the glass in the sunroof? Mine is really bad !

 

pics of broken bracket:

pic with circles of roll pin and bushing that have to be removed

 

I checked my sunroof out today, I do not think it is broke but after I close it sits low and has bad air leak. Do I just need to shim glass up?

 

possibly, mine now sits flush and NO wind noise at 45mph with the shade open, I couldn't check out any higher speeds because of the rain.

 

Nope.. Took the glass out, roll pins are good.

 

Sounds like a short in the wiring up there where your smacking it...Or the motor is bad...or the switch is bad.

 

possbily a weak relay?

 

since you have the glass off see if the tracks move at all when you press the switch.

FWIW I bought my complete sunroof assembly for $15 at the junk yard, I just got one with a cracked glass (which I didn't need anyways)

 

dang, we continued another thread in this one

 

eh thats the org for ya

~Alex

 

i have not ever had problems with the sunroof mechanicly, but i lost power to the sunroof about 6 months ago, tore the whole thing apart twice and checked into the wiring extensively but still no luck. Also i do have power to the lights but not the sunroof, i swaped the entire switch and map light console with my other max that does work, but still nothing. I just cant seem to find the problem so if anyone could help it would be much apprieciated.

 

ive got a set of sunroof rails and a motor and a non-leaking sunroof glass, but it is cracked around the corners..... but the rails and motor are good... if you need them, ill ship them to ya

 

It is not the motor either ive swaped that one with my old max (that does work) and still nothing. do you know if there are any sensors in the actual rails and machanical parts of the sunroof?

 

no sensors other than what is in the motor/ near the motor

 

weirdest thing ever, the sunroof worked today for the first time in like 6 months. while on my lunch break i just decided to try it and it opened and closed and opened just fine, after work same old thing, now its stuck open again and not working??? ****ed up

 

hrmmm... i need to see if my rails are cracked - would love to have a sunroof that seals and doesn't bounce up and down!