Hey guys,
My mate went overseas for 5 weeks and he gave me his prelude for the time being. Theres a few things broken with it and i wanna try fixing them before he gets back.
Ok so its a 1995 4th Gen Prelude. All stock except the rear car lights.
SUNROOF [
FIXED]
Ok so it all works fine but when its closed, i can lift it with my hand and it'll pop out. If i go 80km/h it'll pop open and one of these days is gonna fly back and hit someone driving behind me. I saw someone's site and they said its the Sunroof mount or something? That he got it repaired for $188 but it was all labor cost cause it was only some clips that were bent back. He didnt even get charged for the clips.
Anyone know anything about this? Where to get these clips? Where they go? Anything? Thanks in advance for all the help guys.
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Solution: Somehow some screw inside the mechanism came loose but stayed in its place because of the way the sunroof is designed. I found a tutorial online on how to upgrade your 4th gen 'lude with a 5th gen sunroof and i just followed the steps on how to remove your original 4th gen sunroof. It can be found here: How To: 92-96 Prelude 5th Gen Moonroof Conversion - Honda-Acura.net
The problem was these screws:
Those screws we're loose and just sitting there. So one side of the sunroof wasnt attached to the base bracket which would explain
why the sunroof worked completely but popped out very easily.
The biggest problem was the grey padding under the sunroof (the inside part of the sunroof) seen here (ignore the screw selected):
That grey thing was sooo annoying to put back in place cause the clips that keep it in place kept falling out when trying to slide it in. This part took the longest.
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DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW [
STILL BROKEN]
The driver's side window goes down but when it hits about 40% down, it gets really slow and then i try to bring it up but it gets stuck and i have to grab the window with my hand and help the motor bring it up.
I haven't had a look inside the door yet, hopefully ill get a chance to soon. Any ideas? Ill try and get pictures of everything to make it easier for people to see whats going on.
RIGHT HAND SIDE MIRROR [
FIXED]
Ok the mirror on the drivers side is loose. The mirror glass itself not the whole thing. I dont know how its holding on but its like its being held at the top and the bottom of the mirror, but the bottom one is loose; Cause when i accelerate the bottom part of the mirror gets lifted up almost horizontally then stops when i stop accelerating.
I tried pulling it up and having a look but couldnt really tell what was going on.
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Solution: Behind the mirror itself is kind of like a ring that clips in different positions of the mirror. Pretty much only the top horizontal clip was on. All i had to do is position the mirror ontop of the clips and push hard and that seemed to do the trick? Luckily none of the clips were broken. If it comes off again im just gonna whack some super glue onto the clip part so it doesnt come off again.
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I know im being really vague with this but ill try and get pics going once i open everything up but i thought some of you might have already been through some of these things.
Thoughts?
Thanks guys have a good one
