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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: CO
Posts: 81
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: CO
Posts: 81
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FWIW-- Piling on to this old OP...I use my SR often.
08' Limited, ~110K, 90/10 on/off-road, nothing ultra-hard-core. I'm solid on all maintenance including moving parts consistently year-over-year (e.g. hinges, any mating surfaces, etc.) as well as the sunroof but...this friggin' rattle hit me this past year (2021), hated it...just hated it.
Scoured threads, including this one...had no faith in any fix. Went at again entering the recent holiday weekend thinking..."yeh...sure...but had nothing to lose." I've always hit the sunroof mechanisms 1x per year but this pass...I took added time to seriously clean all rails (used isopropyl alcohol), channels, moving parts, anything/everything I could see/touch to the nth degree. Once complete, sparingly laid-in some off-the-shelf [old] lithium grease, worked the functions a few times and let it sit with no/low expectations.
~120 miles later, multiple rides on various surfaces including two intentional "test runs" on washboard dirt at variable speeds...resolved. I've been listening acutely, just waiting for that damn rattle... On washboards, moving at-speed, listening for it...some lite rattle...but nothing like what I was encountering prior. Urban/suburban "typical use," nothing yet. I'll take it.
No clue? This makes no [engineering or common] sense to me this would help/work and who knows, it may come back tomorrow for all I know but...it's "good so far." Not into jamming-in foam or other "stuff" etc. but if it returns, I'll take that route in desperation but for now...I'm good.
As mentioned FWIW, just adding to the thread/archive here. ;)
Later,
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08' Limited V6 | OME 883 90021 895E 60004 | 265/65-18 XL G2's
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