Sunroof leakage? - 2002 Mercury Mountaineer

If you have a sunroof, that may be your issue. I had a similiar problem when it would rain. After a good rain, water would pour from my front side pillars when making turns, which allowed me to see how water got on the floor.

SOLUTION:
1. Open sunroof, stand up so you can fully see sunroof tracks.
2. In the right/left front corners of the the sunroof tracks are small vent holes (locate them). All sunroofs have these holes in the event of minimal water leakage.
3. Take a 2-3 ft strand of solid wire approx 18ga, insert into vent holes to clear out any type of debris, or build-up. (the dealer wants to charge you $$$ to send your vehicle to another facility to do water test for leakage)
4. Last, take a decent sized squeezable cup filled with hot water (not too hot to hold cup), enough to slowly pour is into sunroof track/vent holes. This will ensure you actually pushed any debris down the vent tubing.
5. If you cleared any build-up from the vent holes, you should see water puddles on the ground, or just have someone watch for leakage near the back of the front wheel well.

Hope it works, I performed this same manuever on my wifes 2009 Jeep Patriot, and filled some corner gaps in the tracking with silicon ($2.89 small tube), when the dealer wanted $150 for leak diagnostics. "Really"

Good Luck

Gr00vie Lou
04 Dodge Durango HEMI
VaBch, VA

sun roof hell, best is to avoid them
same as screen doors on submarines.!
ask jeep, yet, maybe and up grade ? only asking finds. this.

check all of your weatherstripping

This is caused by one or two things one is the adjustment is off or the most common is the track is broken, theres a arm on the track that breaks and cant be replaced without replacing the complete sunroof track, this is costly to do and so are the parts, i would let it be unless you are getting water inside the car. hope this helps.

My sunroof was leaking as well, and you can take the sunroof out. You have to remove the head liner. To do that you have to take off the handles on the liner and the lights and that computer in the front where the sunroof switch is. To take that off you have to take out the one screw and there are two clips holding it up. just pull it down and out of the clips. The light in the middle has two screws behind the plastic for the light. you take off the plastic and then unscrew it and pull it off. you also need to take off those two plastic clips in the back, those just pull out. Once the head liner is out you can unhook the wires to the sunroof. You will need to unscrew the black frame that supports the computer in the front where the sunroof switch is at. Then you can take off all the nuts around the sunroof frame and the sunroof will come right down. I would recommend help when you are ready to take the sunroof down. It does weight a lot.

For the radio, I have the infitiy gold system and that comes with an amplifier from factory. That amp sits underneath the left rear passenger seat. In my vehicle that amp got ruined from the leaking water and so i have no sound from the radio. The radio still works, i can tell because it will play cd's and seek and tune on radio stations, just no sound. So your radio may just be from an amp if thats the system you have.

I dont know anything aobut the sad board, what i've said is what i've had problems with and im just sharing what i learned.

You could change the gasket surrounding the sunroof Others have tried to seal the worn out gasket with epoxy. Here's a page from the Volvo forum I found that should help. If you want to replace the gasket yourself, it's not a difficult process.

http://volvospeed.com/vs_forum/index.php?showtopic=43652

http://www.automedia.com/Sunroof_Rebuild/ccr20050101sr/1

open the sunroof ,stand on the seat then you can still breath when your escort fills with water