Should I get extras fitted in from my dealer or garage?

AdrianC

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

sunroof in non sunroof car! got a spare £1500+ handy!? the work alone is intensive, and not something a dealer would undertake as it requires a measure 20 times and cut once method as if they get it wrong the car is scrap, you would also require a roof card with the hole, the mechanism in which to operate it, the electrics in which to feed power to it, and the roof repainted once its plumed in as it requires a fair amount of welding.

the sunroof will be a specialists job as NO dealer will entertain cutting the roof up.

Aftermarket sunroofs USED to be commonplace. Cut hole, tidy edges, fit frame, job done. I remember watching the dealer fit one to my mother's Mk1 Astra GTE during the PDI... She'd had one on her previous Cavalier SportsHatch, Dolomites, and it was cheaper to get the dealer to fit one to the Saab 900 she had after than it would have been to order the optional sliding steel one (plus she preferred glass to steel).

It's just that we now expect sunroofs to be electric, slide etc. Although aircon's more-or-less replaced them. I still like 'em.

Quiet_Spark

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

LED headlights, that will require a different wiring harness from the fuse box to the lamps,

Manufacturers use the same loom on the base model as what they do the top of the range version, the only difference is there will be a lot of spare plugs on the base model due to lack of equipment.
Either way the cost of retrofitting everything the OP wants will be prohibitive.

AdrianC

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Manufacturers use the same loom on the base model as what they do the top of the range version

Not always. I've certainly looked at retro-fitting equipment from a top-spec car into an identical-age mid-spec one and found the required sub-looms different or just plain missing. With modern stuff, multiplexing adds another layer of complexity, too.

notanewuser

Hilarious!!! :rotfl:

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Manufacturers use the same loom on the base model as what they do the top of the range version, the only difference is there will be a lot of spare plugs on the base model due to lack of equipment.
Either way the cost of retrofitting everything the OP wants will be prohibitive.

Youll find that when converting complete LED from normal HID for example, the harness is different completely theres no extra plugs for the conversion to take place on the seat.


same with my current car, there is no extra plugs in the loom.


and same with my last car, no extra plugs to convert to HID xenon option like with the higher spec model that had it entirely different plug ends to connect to the rear of the unit so hence a different loom.

AdrianC

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

and same with my last car, no extra plugs to convert to HID xenon option like with the higher spec model that had it entirely different plug ends to connect to the rear of the unit so hence a different loom.

Converting from Halogen to HID/LED will also required headlight washing and auto-light-levelling, which may not have other components fitted - water tank, pump, different bumper, rear height sensor.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

AdrianC wrote: »

Aftermarket sunroofs USED to be commonplace. Cut hole, tidy edges, fit frame, job done. I remember watching the dealer fit one to my mother's Mk1 Astra GTE during the PDI... She'd had one on her previous Cavalier SportsHatch, Dolomites, and it was cheaper to get the dealer to fit one to the Saab 900 she had after than it would have been to order the optional sliding steel one (plus she preferred glass to steel).

It's just that we now expect sunroofs to be electric, slide etc. Although aircon's more-or-less replaced them. I still like 'em.

that's old spec vehicles, today cars have allot more going on in the roof in terms of structure reinforcement, add a sunroof spec car optional at factory frame for the sunroof becomes part of the re enforcement and welded in place. you can get a specialists to do it to a modern car. but costs allot more than a older car would to have done.

ballyblack

Aftermarket sunroofs USED to be commonplace

They were not a proper 'sunroof'. They were sometimes called 'sky port's and very simple compared to a modern factory fitted electric steel sunroof



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BeenThroughItAll

Thread of the week for sure.

27col

Where's the geek gone. Perhaps he's out getting quotes.