I'm considering removing the sunroof rain guard on my 96 200 sx. It really serves no purpose and I think the car would look much cleaner without it. Any ideas. Any who've done this with before and after pics or any comments would be appreciated.
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Yea, if you remove that wind guard you can hear the difference, my sentra didn't have one when I first bought it. Also, my friend had a 98' GTP with a sunroof and no wind guard, aside from being loud it also lead to the sunroof flying off. Apparently if you have the sunroof slightly cracked open at a high rate of speed it can force air under the sunroof and lift it off, at least that was the explanation the Pontiac dealership gave him. So don't drive without a sunroof wind deflector, sunroof slightly cracked open, and at ~120mph down the highway.
The guard was on my car when I bought it new. I removed it two years later. The rubber seal left an impression in the clear coat which I have been unable to remove with rubbing compound. I removed a significant amount of the clear coat, and was afraid that I would get into the color coat and need to repaint the area.
Lew
Lew
1.6pete said:you could always color match it............no idea how that would look (it may look pretty goofy accualy) but if you have the cash to give it a go why not
already color matched. Black 200..... Still doesn't look right to me though, would rather take it off, but then again, I'm probably the only one who notices it. I see a lot of people on cardomain.com with 200's that don't have any rain/windguards though. I can't usually tell if they have a sunroof or not though. Hmmmm. Anyway, thanks for trying pete.
maybe there is a way to make is lower instead of tall and weird like it is now. if you can get it closer to the roof and give it a clean sleek look that may help. i cant give you any ideas on how to go about doing this though because i do not have a sunroof to tinker with.
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