What's involved? Is it more trouble than it's worth? My car has a manual sunroof which is fine, but I fancy an electric one, but If it's a ridiculous amount of hassle I won't bother. Anyone done it?

 

Not a massive job mate, a few guys in our club changed their manual roofs in their RS2000's for electric ones without any hassle.

Just need the motor which will replace the manual winding mechanism, power will be there via the courtesy light and finally the plastic cover for it all.

Piece of piss

 

Nice one. Might have a go at some point then.

 

as scott says,

ive done this

although i 'altered' my plastic cover somewhat

 

So you don't have to buy the whole lot, just the motor and cover. Do you need to drill holes to hold the motor or are they already there?

 

unfortunately couldn't tell you that mate as haven't done it myself but wouldn't have thought it would be a major job.

I've already got leccy roof and would check for you but she's locked up in my mates paintshop under cover till April

 

its all there

i shanged the sunroof though aswell as the spindle for the mechanical mechanism isnt the same for the electric..

its slightly too long

 

Thanks for that chaps. Sounds like an interesting little project to me.

 

power the motor from the courtesy light power? sounds dodgy to me. how much current does a sunroof motor draw? car fire anyone?

 

its easy to do, wont take you more than half hour to do, get a mondeo motor and switch form ebay for a bout 40-50 tops, new cowling for the escort from ford and bobs your uncle

dont my gti when i had it was defo worth doing, i might even have the little guide i wrote at home

 

Your hardest part will be running wires for power (you can earth the motor on nearby screw / bolt)

Also consider where you will take feed for power. Im not sure how much grief it would be to retro fit it through the fuse box?

 

I've got mine ready & waiting to go in.

Might have to bug Dave for help............

 

sometimes there not that straight foward, you have to have the compatible sunroof frame, it has 2 have 2 threaed holes in it. SHITBOX had to drop the headlining & change the mechanism, not a hard job though & plenty off escorts in the breakers to get the bits from.

 

I reckon it might be one of these 'little jobs' I have a go at at some point.

 

I also ran power from the fuse box ( with an inline fuse ) not hard , you also need illumination for the switch , it's only early mk5's where you will have problems as they have no holes to mount the motor. I found that if the handle surround is small , separate to the sun visor mounts , you will need to change the whole roof mechanism , but if the handle surround & visor mounts are 1 piece the mounting holes will be there. If you have any problems pm me i'll be happy to help

 

ive thought about this but the massive box looks a bit shit with jus 1 switch in.and i use my sunroof about. 5 times a year

 

Just picked this post up, anyone got any good instructions to wire her in ??, i have an electric roof in the garage, never got round to fitting it.

 

What year is your car ?

 

sounds gd im thinking of doing it to my si i have got the roof surround already bought just need to get the motor but a nice wireing diagram would be gd to if any ones got one floating about

 

its a 93 escort cos......

 

I've got a September 92 Esc Cos and my sunroof frame didn't have them 2 bolts so it was not possible on mine without changing the lot.

 

I have the whole assembly luckily .

Does it need a relay or will just a fuse be ok ?, if you take the power from the interior light then i assume you don't need an extra fuse ?

Also should the switch illuminate with the lights ??

 

Cos Jon thats just on the change over , does your sunroof handle suround also incorporate the inner sun visor mounts , or is it small & separate from the visors ? If it is separate you will need to change the whole mechanism. Speedy G I changed the whole lot it's not as hard as you might think

 

Mine is the small one, so as you say the whole assembly needs to come off.....Mine is actually a 92 car, registeted in 93.

 

I've got 2 left hands when it comes to assembling something.

 

For power , run a wire from the fuse box with an inline fuse , For illumination run a wire from one of the dash switches , fog lights or heated screen , earth to a sunroof mount bolt.