Present Forester the first car for ages without a sunroof, and SWMBO surprised me by saying how much she missed it.

On the other hand my Forester has a full length electric sunroof and I never use it :-)

Tried it once and it was good I have to admit, but after all the grief I've heard over the years I worry about the thing jamming mid way just before a rain storm. In really hot weather it would frazzle the top of my thinning bonce.

I can see that they would be particularly useful if you had a dark and gloomy interior. Slide back the internal cover to brighten it up.

Edited by corax on 27/04/2018 at 12:02

I must admit i do like a sunroof. To the point that i had been seriously considering a top of the range Hyundai i10, which has one as standard, as our next car. The Wife decided it was too small though, so we got the Jazz.

From 1990-1995 i worked at a Saab dealership in Aberdeen and while many of the cars had sunroofs, the only ones i remember causing problems were the after market pop up glass ones. The factory sunroofs, both manual and electric, as far as i can recall, worked fine. Back in the day i did have a couple of old 900's with a manual sunroof. Unless it was raining, they were always open!.

Never had a problem with a proper sun roof (sliding, factory type). Not had one of the roll back Webasto type though, or one of those aftermarket pop-up type that seem often to leak.

The factory sliding ones don't usually attempt to seal agianst water ingress, rather they drain down the roof pillars, so they can "leak" when the drains block and the drain channel overflows.

I've had some 205s with the factory-fit sliding sunroof - I have one now. All have worked OK, but there can be a lot of wind noise, and you do need to keep the drain tubes clear. I guess they could be awkward if the vacuum seal gives up ...