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Pan Roof

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:30 pm
by mode
Sitting inside the car what do you see?, is it just glass or can you slide the headliner accross over it, there is no pan roofed car at my local dealer to have a look, cheers !!

Re: Pan Roof

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:40 pm
by iAmbu
I'm pretty sure you can slide a cover over, remember seeing one in the showroom

Re: Pan Roof

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:10 pm
by startide
There's a cover that slides across, although it's fairly thin and still allows light through. More of a sun blind really. The roof only tilts (about 2 cm) and doesn't slide.

Re: Pan Roof

Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:15 pm
by jc74
startide wrote:There's a cover that slides across, although it's fairly thin and still allows light through. More of a sun blind really. The roof only tilts (about 2 cm) and doesn't slide.
Exactly right.
Sunroof pros:-
- Lightens up the cabin
- Marginally better than opening the windows at high speed, but then you have air-con anyway :shrug:

Cons:-
- Only tilts, and the sides have an expanding rubber seal, so in fact only the rear gets any ventilation
- When the cover is slide across, it's like a sunblind, so still lets through a bit of light and presumably quite a bit of the heat.
- Although it looks like from the outside it should be panaromic, it isn't and there's switches and lights in the middle between the sunroof and the windscreen.
- You lose the sunglasses holder, even though it's not panaromic!

I didn't spec it, but the car they could get quickly had one, so they let me have it for an additional £400. Would I pay for one next time? - Nope! Not a tilt only anyway, Tilt/Slides are great, since they are good for ventilating heat out...

Re: Pan Roof

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:53 pm
by mode
Interesting !,i thought it was panoramic on the inside, thanks for the replies guys!!