Moon Roof

My car got stolen...i got it back but they left my moon roof open. Now it won't close.

It's not the fuse. I'm fairly handy but stupid. I need a guide for most of what i do....and as the moon roof is an option, it's not in any of the repair manuals i've seen.

When I press the button to close it nothing happens. When I press the button to open it I hear a "psht" kinda click...basically the motor telling me it can't open any further as it's already open all the way.

I really don't care about fixing the thing, i just want it closed. Could anyone tell me how to get into the mechanics of the thing to just force it closed?

Thanks.

Try some sort of lube. Moonroofs/sunroofs need to be lubed from time to time. It would'nt hurt to give it a hand while pushing the switch.

I can't seem to find where I read this, I looked over my Helm's and couldn't find out where the manual crank is. But I think there is a place that you can uncover (probably covered with a plastic piece you can pry off around the moonroof) where u can take an allen key and turn or sumthin like that. If you want to try to fix the problem i can put the helms pages up relating to your sunroof, they are very helpful. I just need to know if yours slides outside or if the the glass window slides back inside the car.

the moon roof tool should be in with ur spare tire stuff, should all be there i think.

Fixed!

The owner's manual had mentioned both the tool in the trunk and the the spot in the roof to put the tool in to crank it closed manually. Guess I should have mentioned I'd heard of them. But, neither the tool nor the place to put it in existed. I swear, i'm not lying.

Pulling away the roof's upholstery a little near where the open/close switch is reveals a plastic panel with a hole in the center through which you can see something that looks like a foreign coin. About a nickel sized piece of silver metal with a pea sized piece of black metal in the center. I'd suspected this was where the manual crank should be, but it was sealed, did not open, and had nothing to turn. Still, I thought I must be missing something and I would have to go another way.

Emboldend by your posts however, I unscrewd the plastic thingy...which revealed the motor....still no sign of a crank hole though. So I took off the motor and saw where the moter turns in the roof...it was kinda gear hole for which i had no tool...but i jammed a fat allen wrench in there a a funny angle and it turned and the roof closed. Victory.

As for what's wrong with the Moon Roof. I believe the servo motor that drives it is shot. I started the car and tried out the moon roof with the moter hanging out, it didn't turn. For awhile now, if you shut off the car with the roof open, the roof tries to close automatically like it's supposed to (which is annoying if you want the roof open with the car off) but fails to do this. It would close halfway and open again and close halfway again and again, and the only way to stop the thing was to start the car's electricity and hold the close button down.

Since presumably, the people that stole my car weren't conscientious enough to do the above, the roof probably just kept opening and closeing till the moter burned out....which seems to have occured before the battery gave out.

Probably alot more than you need to know. But anyway. Thanks for your help.