Jeep Compass: Successfully fixed the stubborn sunroof rattle

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5 years and adjacent to 70000km had near my Compass with a squeaky and rattly sunroof. The driving acquisition of a premium car was wholly ruined by the sound coming from the extortion connected adjacent insignificant bumps and undulations, and the car felt similar a worn down fund Maruti. Repeated complaints to Jeep work did not output immoderate result. My car?s upwind deflector is broken, and they simply washed their hands disconnected saying thing tin beryllium done unless I agreed to regenerate it (Rs 25k + labour). Fed up, I decided to instrumentality the car implicit to Worlds of Service, Noida, for a solution.

The process of fixing the sunroof requires removing the extortion liner to entree its mountings. To that end

First, the sunshades were removed

Followed by the drawback handles

The trim of the A, B and C pillars was loosened with a prying tool.

And past the extortion liner was cautiously pulled down

The extortion liner is held successful spot by dense work Velcro benignant worldly

Top prime extortion liner made up of aggregate layers with foam sandwiched successful between, arsenic good arsenic an further heavy furniture of insulation connected top. A acold outcry from the cardboard utilized by Maruti, Toyota and Honda.

The extortion liner pulled down, giving entree to the mechanical bits of the sunroof.

The aforementioned breached upwind deflector

A presumption of the hidden bits inside: the airbag module

All mounting bolts of the sunroof were individually tightened. Many of them were recovered loose.

Finally, the sunroof channels were lubricated with spray.

Multiple trial runs were conducted connected breached roads to guarantee determination is nary sound. Once satisfied, the extortion liner was past enactment backmost successful spot and everything was closed up. Overall, the occupation took astir an hr and half. They past cleaned up the extortion to region immoderate inadvertent lipid oregon grease stains.

Final result: SILENCE

The upwind deflector stays arsenic it is.