How To Repair Sunroof Drain On Honda Accord 2004

During a rainy calendar week I noticed water coming in around the front end dashboard expanse. It seemed to be coming from the headliner near the tiptop of the windshield in a few spots, generally from right higher up the rearview mirror.

I kept a hand towel nearby to protect the area when the motorcar was parked merely noticed that there were no leaks if the automobile was parked on an incline: it only seemed to leak when parked on a decline.

I suspected that the forepart sunroof drains were clogged so this DIY will focus on what I did to ensure they are unclogged!

Tools you'll need:

Flashlight (if needed)
Compressed air w/ nozzle tool (alternatively, a can of compressed air should piece of work or even annihilation approximately 4-ft long that'southward not sharp and semi-flexible like grass trimming line or a nylon-coated cable)
Sports bottle (or whatsoever container you can accurately + carefully cascade h2o from)

Set up to unclog your sunroof drains?

On a 2004 Saab 9-3 Arc the sunroof drains are located in each corner of the sunroof. Since I didn't seem to have a leak coming through when the car was parked on an incline I only focused on the front drains, which is the focus of this DIY.

Pace 1
Open your sunroof and locate the front drains in the corners:

Step ii
Hither'southward a close-up using a flashlight and so you lot tin clearly encounter the bleed hole on the driver side:

Step three
OPTIONAL: You can choose to test whether it's clogged at this point by carefully pouring water into each corner and seeing if it drains or not. I chose not to do this as I didn't want to make a mess of water getting everywhere if h2o puddles accumulated and I tried blowing compressed air on it. Yes, I could have then moved the car then it was parked on an incline to bleed the water and so dorsum on a decline but I ultimately decided to skip this step entirely and just assume it's chock-full. Your call here.

Pace 4
I had two compressed air nozzle tools to choose from. I preferred the long reach tool as the drain hole was recessed in its location but the tip wasn't thick plenty to seal the hole. I tried it anyway and blew air in the drain holes a few times, so reached for the shorter nozzle tool to be sure as information technology had a nice wide tip that I could angle in there and seal up the pigsty well plenty for more of the compressed air to force down the bleed pigsty. If you lot don't have any of these so I'd imagine fishing anything long that's semi-flexible and irksome downwards the drain holes a few times should practice the fox. If y'all take a tin can of compressed air and so perhaps using some overlapping length of masking tape to create a better seal at the tip could work every bit well.

Step v
Assuming your car is still parked on a reject, get some water into a container that you lot can and then advisedly pour into the bleed holes and examination that it's no longer chock-full. I used my trusty sport canteen and was able to aim and squeeze h2o into each of the bleed hole areas.

Stride 6
If your front end sunroof drain holes are unclogged yous should come across h2o going downwardly the drains and coming out behind the front wheels. I wasn't able to do the examination until late in the evening and couldn't get a decent movie so instead I show beneath where you can look the h2o to come out in each side of the machine: