Originally Posted by cmalenda1010

I’ve run into the same issue and not willing to spend about $2K to have it fixed. How do I go about trying your clips? What is your feedback on them after a year?

Originally Posted by ctravis595

there’s no irony to be entertained there, it’s just common sense. Your logic is akin to complaining your $4800 aluminum wheels cracked over a pothole, so you want to try the largely untested $250 replica wheel over the same potholes instead. Good luck finding a lawyer to take on your flying sunroof glass case when you tell him the $30 clips didn’t work as well as they should. Hopefully they aren’t able to find this thread where you stated you don’t care about anyone’s safety because your European car costs too much to repair

fwiw I have yet to have any of my sunroof repair jobs come back with issues, using the oem parts and factory repair guidelines. We have a few tricks we use to ensure proper installation and to avoid having to do the job twice. I’m not sure the issue is the plastic clips as much as hasty assembly, and misalignment of the guide rails from the factory. The plastic clips appear to me to be a purposefully weak point in the assembly to avoid glass shattering instances for example. Before leaving Mercedes I was responsible for inspecting the new cars that came in to the dealership. Most often the issues were found on the cars out of the Alabama plant, where most of our w205’s come from


In my opinion the entire array of pano roof cars should have a service campaign to have the sunroof rails and plastic clips inspected for proper alignment and integrity. I also own a 2005 w211 Mercedes that only recently in the last couple of years had a recall for “sunroof glass may fly off the car”. The recall process involved yanking on the sunroof glass, if the glass doesn’t come off then the car is considered good to go. Quite a crude way to test someone’s 15 year old sunroof, but the name of the game is to maximize profits and reduce losses. It seems they’ve decided the pano roof issues are not worth issuing a real recall unfortunately. One of the many reasons I decided to leave Mercedes

Originally Posted by monergist

it's uncanny that you can't see the irony in anything you're saying. you left mercedes for many reasons, including a poor recall process on a part that took 15 years to be recalled. by your own admission, there already existed a design flaw that could've resulted in a sunroof flying off from the factory (although, there aren't any stories of mercedes sunroofs flying off into minivans). mercedes delivered a broken and cheap product, so complaining about people using aftermarket alternatives is pointless. mercedes didn't do it right the first time, so they haven't earned our trust to do it right the second time. you're telling people to put the same exact broken parts from mercedes back on the car to fail again. it's great that your repairs haven't failed thus far, but you also mentioned some largely untested "tricks" that you recently incorporated. so it's okay to trust your new tricks? how come mercedes didn't use these tricks when they made the car? the job is being done twice. first by mercedes, second by you!

and the mention of price tags is also irrelevant, considering bosch makes a part for $5, sells it to mercedes for $20, who then sells it to consumers for $1000. stamping a logo on a part doesn't necessarily mean it's quality. the $250 replica rims could turn out to be made of superior materials and last longer than the $4800 wheels. we as americans are groomed to frown upon products that aren't expensive, when they're all made in china for pennies.

Originally Posted by ctravis595

a lot of words to just say you are too cheap to fix your Mercedes properly

Originally Posted by monergist

yes, gaslighting, the last resort for someone whose argument holds no water

by that logic, anyone who doesn't go to the dealer is too cheap to fix their mercedes properly

meanwhile, you're an independent technician marketing yourself as a cheaper option than the only proper channel (the dealer), while using "tricks" and untested methods

Originally Posted by gasnowlady

I am among you all having sunroof issues. We had the car in for maintenance and I asked the shop (not a dealer) to look at the sunroof. Yes, I heard something like plastic break and now, only one side of the roof lifts up and it makes me nervous that the glass could break. The shop wanted a ridiculous amount of money to replace the whole setup. Are the symptoms for this similar to what we are experiencing? One side coming up and not the other? Our roof is closed now but I'm worried about trying it again. We are not very handy and wanted to know if this was something an idiot could do (replacing these clips)

Originally Posted by MatthewJ

Thanks for sharing! Can you share the file so those of us with 3D printers can try them out?
Im sure mine will break in time. kinda afraid to open the roof to grease things without having a fix ready on hand. how does the PLA hold up with heat?

Originally Posted by Nice Ride

Will these work on a W222 SClass S550? Is it the same mechanism??

Originally Posted by Willow1234

I have a 2016 Mercedes GLA250 with the broken pano roof. It rises on the right rear only. How do I get it to open so I can install your repair parts?

Originally Posted by Mercedes82000

hello,
Simply yes.
for fixing the roof I send you a tutorial