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Title: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: cam2502 on 18 February 2009, 00:08:30
the strangest thing happened tonight,driving my omega quite happily,when all of a sudden the sunroof opened all on its own!! it tilted up about an inch. the knob hadnt moved and was still in the closed position. i turned the knob to another setting and it went further as it normally would, and closed again when i returned it to the closed position. what the......??? so,anyone any ideas.....or is my car haunted???  :-/
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Darth Loo-knee on 18 February 2009, 00:09:48
Push the button up and hold it there for around 5 seconds, perhaps just needs resetting  :y
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: hotel21 on 18 February 2009, 00:10:51
Get the resident ghost to reset the switch.  Tell them to press and hold the switch in at the closed position, repeat at the tilt, then again at fully open.   :y

Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Entwood on 18 February 2009, 00:11:57
Not an unknown problem, sometimes caused by a dirty "track" in the control switch, and IMHO I think damp plays a part as well.

There used to be a detailed thread about removing the switch and cleaning it all out ... On my old miggy (it's never happened in this one) I found that a few exercises of the switch acroos the whole range seemed to sort it for a few months ..

HTH
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Lazydocker on 18 February 2009, 00:12:46
Mine does this randomly :o :o :o Keep meaning to take it apart and get some switch cleaner on the contact disk ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: cam2502 on 18 February 2009, 00:16:52
thanks for the speedy reply folks,i will try holding it in the morning and let you know. thanks :)
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Post by: Vamps on 18 February 2009, 00:33:43
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thanks for the speedy reply folks,i will try holding it in the morning and let you know. thanks :)


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Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Welung666 on 18 February 2009, 02:29:23
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the strangest thing happened tonight,driving my omega quite happily,when all of a sudden the sunroof opened all on its own!! it tilted up about an inch. the knob hadnt moved and was still in the closed position. i turned the knob to another setting and it went further as it normally would, and closed again when i returned it to the closed position. what the......??? so,anyone any ideas.....or is my car haunted???  :-/

Call a rather' priest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: nick v6 on 18 February 2009, 06:08:09
mine sometimes plays up
if i fully open the sun roof then close it
just as it gets close to the close position it opens it self
normaly takes 2 or 3 attemps
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Andy B on 18 February 2009, 09:26:35
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mine sometimes plays up
if i fully open the sun roof then close it
just as it gets close to the close position it opens it self
normaly takes 2 or 3 attemps

Anti trap operating. It's like the windows in that it can tell if there's a restriction when it's closing and should open again. Try lub'ing the drive mechanism.
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: nick v6 on 18 February 2009, 09:54:06
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mine sometimes plays up
if i fully open the sun roof then close it
just as it gets close to the close position it opens it self
normaly takes 2 or 3 attemps

Anti trap operating. It's like the windows in that it can tell if there's a restriction when it's closing and should open again. Try lub'ing the drive mechanism.

that will be another job to do
ill get onto that today while its going to be dry
rain tomorrow
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: cam2502 on 18 February 2009, 11:13:19
an update on my haunted mig......tried the push up thing,but i dont know if its cured it because havin driven for around 2hrs today the sunroof stayed closed as it should. so i guess its a waiting game to see if it happens again. in the meantime i'll get the lube out. ( for the car!) thanks again for your help guys. :y
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: jerry on 18 February 2009, 11:27:16
maybe mine is haunted as well!!Had similar problem not so long ago when it just opened on its own a couple of times and then refused to sit back down properly. Touch wood, seem to have been able to have reset it tho and hasnt played up since.
                                                                  jerry
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: cam2502 on 18 February 2009, 11:42:31
my main worry is it going up on its own and not closing,'cause living in scotland,we do get a day or two of rain every year! ;D :o
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Andy B on 18 February 2009, 12:48:34
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......'cause living in scotland,we do get a day or two of rain every year! ;D :o

It used be horizontal in Rosyth where I was an apprentice, so wouldn't have gone into the sunroof!  ;)  :y  :y
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Proz on 18 February 2009, 12:52:35
I remember on my first mig the same thing happened to mine ...  only the once though .
Title: Re: life of its own!!!!!
Post by: Omegadoha, Desert Member on 18 February 2009, 15:32:33
I call it the auto sunroof feature. You're driving along and the sunroof opens for you, no need to touch anything. What more could you ask for? ;D