Panorama Sunroof blind replacement .

[Sunny43.5]

I have just today completed a change over of the roller sunshade in a VW Tiguan for a customer , A couple of things owners should be aware of . 1/ From what the customer told me they had loaned the car to a friend and the opened the sunroof but left the blind closed , the wind pressure on the blind caused it to separate from metal side tape . 2/ Its B%%^d of a job to do takes lots of courage and a calm temper . The whole roof trim has to be removed then the internal locking ring comes out easily , then remove the sunroof blind motor remove the blind housing two screws and two locating pins which engage into the end of the track . Next remove the plastic cover each side which is covering the cables , now the reason for that is that unless you want to remove the whole sunroof from the car this method will save 8 hours of work . The plastic cover over the cables also acts to hold the tube the blind cable runs inside of from the end of the track to the end of the cable guide . Now as there is virtually no pressure on the cable system you need to break a small piece of plastic off this will allow the end fittings that hold the blind to the housing to slide out the very end of the track . The actual cables will disengage from the two end fittings easily as there is a just allocating lug which fits into a small cut out . The blind itself is a real piece of retro styling , they have glued the fabric to a thin metal strip which is about 6mm wide there is only about 3 mm of fabric glued along this strip. But here is the best part for those of you who are older you may remember the old fashioned wind up toys from way back the one with along metal strip which is wound up to then be released with the toy rocketing off along the floor . These gizmos where something you never dismantled as the resulting coil would shoot out into a tangled mess of metal . Well VW have reinvented the same stuff for the blind , once you hook the front of the strip back onto the two guides you have to feed the metal strip very carefully into the guide that it fits into track on each side . Here is where the fun starts this metal strip will wind itself up and just keep twisting itself around itself as you are trying to feed it into the guide . So slowly as you feed it in you have to untwist a small bit at a time until you get it right to the front . Naturally you will have refitted the two cables at the same time as you start the fitting process . When the blind is fully closed you then have to fit the very rear section which is a very cheap plastic tube with a locating slot for the very end of metal strip to engage , if you are lucky it will stay attached but I doubt it . Next the end roller part has to be fitted into the shade housing and the fabric fed into the guides inside that housing . Once that is done you then need to refit the plastic cable cover parts and remount the blind housing . Before remounting the motor its is critical to retime the motor , with the blind still fully closed and the motor loose run the motor with the switch and observe the running . The motor will only run so many turns in each direction so you run the motor until it thinks it has the blind in the closed position , now you can refit the motor and then the roof lining etc and job is done .

[tigger73]

Panorama Sunroof blind replacement .

Nice write-up.

Did you have to replace the blind or did you just re-fit the existing unit? Approximate cost???

I wonder if the friend is paying for the repairs.....


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[Sunny43.5]

Yes it was a brand new blind .

[Umai Naa!!]

Have replaced one on a car that was barely a few weeks old.

VW paid for it, though.

[Sunny43.5]

Yes I will admit here that I had never done one before so the next one will be much easier to do {not that I would want to do them to often} one can only stand so much pressure . Funny enough today I had to replace the sunroof blind cables in a Mercedes C200 coupe and to be honest I would rather do those all day long than the Tiguan blinds . Then I have an Audi A3 sportline to do a blind on next week Groan . The problem is no bugger in Qld seems interested in doing this sort of work except me . Dealers want arms and legs for doing these jobs so the customer then picks themselves up from the shock of a dealer quote and rings me .

[Snail Style]

The blinds lock into the plastic sliders if you do abit of modifying of them, I remove the steps on either side of the main locking tab. Seen plenty of them get damaged during replacement and need to be redone.

[Chrismacca]

Thanks for sharing mate. Sounds like you're a trimmer and I wondered whether you had done any driver's seat mods? I'm sliding around too much on the standard seats for my liking. Any ideas would be appreciated...
Thanks

[hippyhippy]

I've got the exact same problem in my car, this tiguan is by far the worst car I've owned. If it's not 1 thing it's another. Op, I'm gonna send u a pm with details of where u purchased the replacement, the stealer wants me to pay 300 just to tell me it's broken, 500 bucks for part and 8 hour labour at 240 an hour. Mine just suddenly popped, and started making loud scratching sounds when I closed it one day.

[Guru73]

I bought mine knowing the filter needed attention but with no idea on the cost of repair. Love the car but this is driving me crazy.

[vdubmotorworx]

Did one the other day...they are crap!!

[buzuki]

Golf 7 are the same Ive also been the victim of one

Although the golf7 sunroof frame just unbolts from the car after rooflining out

[richie3971]

I had to replace my 2008 TDI Tiguan, Sun Shade back in 2014. I managed to get a replacement Sun Blind/Shade from Germany for about $120 Australian dollars. It took a lot of hours, but worth it. I found a leak in one of my Sunroof drain tube connections, so its worth checking once the ceiling lining is off. I also made the tool in photo to remove holding clip. Happy to lend if you need it.
Part was mailed over for a reasonable price. company was RAR RIEDEL Autorecycling GmbH Breitenbrunn Autoersatzteile, Gebrauchtteile einfa

Does anyone know if we can have old Sun Blind/Shade repaired in Australia? My old blind is not torn, just the glue and spring strip has come apart.

[Sunny43.5]

Okay guys an update from my original post on these Mongrel blinds , if you are going to replace one be aware it seems VW have changed the new blinds from the original ones . The cross bar has a plastic fitting which the blind attaches to before inserting into the track , this part on your original will have 3 raised pieces that the blinds metal strip locates onto . There are actually two slotted holes which slips over two of the three locators . Now the new blinds do not have the two slotted holes they have a metal locating piece which is at 90 degrees to the metal strip this will not fit the original plastic end . So make sure you get the new end parts with your new blind , word of warning the new end guides are fractionally larger than the originals and you must sand or file them down so it can slide in and out of the alloy part easily . You see as I found out the distance between the two sides of the roof can vary and if the guide is not free to slide in and out as it goes back and forwards it will jam up and you can kiss goodbye to the new blind {yes found out this one myself } Next since my first post about the tangles etc I have since worked out an easy method of feeding the blind in with out the swearing , when you get the new one and have clipped the metal strip to the new guides then get a couple of cable ties . Attach one to the blind housing each side and then attach them to the main sunroof housing . This will keep the blind really close to the point where you start to slide the metal strip and guide into the housing frame and stops it from flying all over the country side to be quite honest the last one I did with all the new bits was a dream to install took me less than 5 minutes to slide it in and attach the cables to the new guides . Oh and for those that have asked DO NOT BOTHER asking about reglueing you have a **** show in hells chance of it ever working again or even actually staying glued to the strip . here is a strange thing I ordered a blind for a Audi Q5 which is body wise the same as the Tig and it came with the modified end guides with the new blind , I am not sure why the VW ones are not the same but I am sending details to suppliers with a suggestion that they should supply the new ends to match the blinds .

[tek199]

Sunny, Thank you for the top job replacing my blind. Im usually pretty handy with mechanical stuff, but seeing the effort required im glad i have farmed this one out to you.

thanks again !

[vwvwvw]

Hi, Anyone know anyone in the Brisbane & Gold Coast area that can fix this same issue. Mine just went.
Thanks in advance.