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Ok, so I'm crusing to tennis along Monaro, just got my car back.

Then "BANG!"

I go "WTF MATE?" (to myself of course)

I get to tennis, hop out of the car, and my sunroof is smashed into a million pieces. I guess you could say it's technically once peice as the tint appears to be holding it together. But seriously, what the ****?

The sunroof was down, wasn't behind any cars, no one around (to throw a rock or anything) but it appears that a rock has hit it.

Now, how do I go about finding a replacement sunroof for an 88 JDM Galant? :pissed:

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You've got a tint job on your sunroof?! There's the problem,right there! This piece of wisdom was imparted by one of Canberra's top window tinters to me a month or so ago. Shocked as I was,it made sense:think just how f**king hot that glass already gets,then increase it 5 fold and reduce it's ability to disperse heat? Hmmm..bang,indeed,sir! Unless the car is equiped with special glass(treated,laminated...I don't know:they're just "treated",OK!),they WILL eventually go "KER-POW!" if they're tinted,it seems. This probably hasn't helped you one iota,but it may shed some light(geddit?Shed some light?!Hahahahahaha...groan)on your problem...

Terminal Grand Master

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Yeah i've been told not to tint my sunroofs, which sucked coz i wanted them both to be see through but a lot less hot. Surely it'll be a standard Mistubishi style sunroof and the part number should match other models that were Aus release?

Mark Rising Star

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This is just ****ed. ****ing mother****er of a ****ing car.

****!!!

Ok, now that's out of the way. Mitsubishi tell me that galants never came with factory sunroofs (check any importer, almost all JDM's have sunroofs) .

Two sunroof shops said I had buckley's of getting one

15 Wreckers around australia don't have one.

I'm gonna make my own. ****ING :(

race_snooze Grand Master

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mark you can someone to make it up in perspecs, so try looking for some places in canberra area that do perspecs work. Oh and they can prob have the tint made into the stuff.

Other wise will start asking around for you for the real deal

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Mark I hope you have found an acceptable solution. My experience with a Jensen Interceptor that has a rear window 3 times the size of the S'line and is probably suspected of being a stressed member(!) suggests that if you make enough phone calls and dig deep enough you will get a solution. Try talking to Pilkingtons and others who are in the glass industry because I have been amazed at what they can do if you take the right approach.

Hope that helps

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Mark I hope you have found an acceptable solution. My experience with a Jensen Interceptor that has a rear window 3 times the size of the S'line and is probably suspected of being a stressed member(!) suggests that if you make enough phone calls and dig deep enough you will get a solution. Try talking to Pilkingtons and others who are in the glass industry because I have been amazed at what they can do if you take the right approach.  

Hope that helps

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go.

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