I searched with no luck.

Anyone know the difference in weight between the glass and steel sunroof assembly?

I'm wondering if it would be worth it to either...

A: Swap from glass to steel

or

B: Non-sunroof skin conversion.


But if the weight difference is significant between glass and steel, I might just start looking for a steel outer panel.

 

You'd be doing a major conversion to to go from sunroof to no sunroof. I bet its probably in the amount of 20 lbs though. Between the motor and rails and extra seals and such.

 

Thanks for that.

But my question was the difference between glass and steel sunroof.

 

I can't remember the figure, but as I recall there was a thread at one point, and the glass moonroof is significantly heavier, as you might imagine being glass vs. sheet metal.

 

The glass moonroof is 13lbs, and if you have the panel that blocks it out completely, that adds another 3lbs. I'm looking for the weight of the metal panel.

 

I swapped from glass to metal, there is a significant weight difference just lifting the two side by side, although I didn't weigh them. I'd say that the metal sunroof weighs no more than 5-6 lbs.

 

jimlab said years ago that his weighed 9.2, but more recently someone said theirs weighed about 5lbs too, so I'm not sure why there is a difference. I'm interested in seeing what it actually weighs though.

 

If we're talking slugs and other archaic terms, steel sunroof panel with trim is 10.3 lbs. Then there's all this scrap metal to add , yuk -