URGENT: sunroof problem Options

[DamDirtyApes]

Prevoius day Sunroof works fine

The next day i go to open it and i hear a grinding sound, sunroof doesnt open all the way.
Attempt to close it, odenst close all the way.
Now when i press butten it moves an inch and get a grinding sound.
Toyota mechanic and i manage to shut the roof by pressing butten and pushing glass.
Sunroof still makes same sound and moves up and down less than an inch.
took off panal where the controls are to see the manual operatoin.
when i press the butten to move the sunroof this spins, after the sunroof stops moving it keeps on spinning until i let go of butten. sound continues until buttne is released

mechanics and such have given me these likely problems.

stripped gear
sunroof off the track


the grinding noise i hear is between the sunroof and the front windshield.


i have never had a problem before with it. any ideas and comments are welcome. This is urgent so please everyone respond, i cant go letting water leakin my car.

Id rather not bring this to a shop becuase it will cost alot of money. But if thats what it takes, then i will

This post has been edited by DamDirtyApes: Jun 24, 2005 - 1:51 PM

[illneversellmyce...]

same thing happened to me, the middle gear is stripped in the motor. their are 3 gears in the motor, the two on the outside are metal, and the one on the inside is plastic, guess what happens when you tracks get clogged my something.......grrr grind , crap gear is stripped. I tried to order just the gear but toyota only sells the whole sunroof motor, then i tried to go to a metal fabricator to see if they would make me a new gear, costs too much better just to get a new motor. thank god my sunroof closed before it screwed up. Right now i'm still looking for a new sunroof motor myself but you dont see them often and i missed out the last few times someone was parting out a celli