Manchester Mike

last thursday night i was racing my mate in his frst down the motorway (which i was winning by the way) when at 120 the front of the sunroof popped up, thought this was strange as obviously it doesn't open that way. like a fool i kept my right foot down and about a mile later the wind ripped the sunroof clean out of the car and about 30 foot into the air!!

really can't see how this happened as thought the wind would have been pushing it downwards!!!
anyway... best part is, rick recorded the hole thing on his phone, hopefully link coming soon from him1

Puss2

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the strut brace

happened to 2 of my mates exactly the same, must just be the design mate

dannyblackpool

your private test track named after one of the queens highway?????

Adam Ash

not having too much luck with this car are ya Mike


gaffer tape it down next time

Manchester Mike

yeah, i may right a letter to ford

the strut brace

pmsl, good luck m8, got a feeling there reaction will be
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Manchester Mike

pmsl

Disabled Account

Exactly the same thing happened to Steve/Jodi on their way to an Exmouth meeting last summer

Was due to the sunroof brackets rusting away - as the water drain tubes were blocked over time

Neil@carwise

Does not sound possible mate, I think you are making this up

Rick

Really? Funny that, as i got a video of it on my phone. I'll post it when i can be bothered to find my Nokia cd.

xr-stu

because of the pressure difference from inside the car (14.7psi - atmosphere) to the air pressure outside. higher the speed of air the lower the pressure gets! even if you only get a 2psi drop outside, thats still 1lb for every inch of that sunroof! gotta be a good 60lbs or so!!

fuck me...ive actually learned something at college

the strut brace

or it could just be rusty screws

dannyblackpool

was a joke m8 neils mental sapphires one left the building at a high rate of knots down brunters straight

Rossco

Same happened to Smit in his cossie, whole lot blew out

dannyblackpool

hmmmmmmm rust

Neil@carwise

yes, was only joking, mine left the building at 167 and a bit but unfortunately my brother crapped himself so I was forced to stop and let him out (the smell)

Manchester Mike

thought that but it was all solid.

on what was left of the sunroof attached to the car there was two plastic beams on either side that had snapped clean

simonc

This also happened to my mates cossie yb powered XR4i, the sunroof blew out at about 140mph & smashed into a thousand pieces on the road.

Simon.

Smit

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Happened to me

Whole runners/glass/blind everything....wossssssss

Ask Steve RS as he was in the lane next ot me at the time

mrviper

i bet you shite your self

Rs Baz

it sounds funny but it's not it could of done some harm to who
ever was behind you sounds like a lucky escape to me mate.

sorry to hear that this has happend but it's better than your
bonnet flying up im sure, did it damage the roof

Adam_BlackRS

I had the same happen to me too

WHOLE thing, clean out.... amazingly it missed my mate behind me but he did drive over it

Then it decided to rain

Andreas

Yes, must be quite a vacuum there when the air passes the top of the windscreen.

steve rs

all i saw was smits sunroof coming down towards me i had to swerve out of the way

cossiecrew

ive been in a s2 and a 3i when this has happened first you here a noise look up to see an inch gap from the front next minute they fook off normally about 10ft in the air

Smit

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Whoooooooops

1600E

Maybe the moral is.........................don't do 120MPH+ on the motorway?

cossiecrew

B19-TRB

When this happends does it do any damage to the car!?

cossiecrew

not in my expierence just sucked it out clean no damage

Spiky

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why does that comment turn me on

B19-TRB

badnews

i was following a pug 205 up the m18 last year and the whole sunroof and runners just flew off sunroof glass went spinning out of sight the appeared again on my bonet along with all the rails and shit it ripped off the pug just fooked off with the roof linning covering the rear window i had to stop to remove all the shite off the front of me old van iy did loads of damage even poped a hole thrugh the zorst as bit's went undernieth

brad

mine came out in the saff at bout 130ish , took the fookin lot out . funny thing is it landed in one piece without a mark on it . fooked none the less but in one piece

zvhturbo

Get one of these, they look great

Physio

AlexF

Its called lift...

the tops of cars are sucked upwards... hence you have front and rear spoilers to push the cars back down... unless its a Dino!

alex

BillyCabrio

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I remember doing a simular thing, unlatching the cannie roof at 120 on the M25..........

Makes for some intersting roof opening!

BM08

i wanna see the vids of this