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Old May 14, 2013 | 05:25 PM
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Has anyone realized when opening the sunroof, it stops a good 3 inches from the stop location? To open it fully, you have to press the open button a second time. I never noticed until today.

Its kind of hard to tell in the pics, but here they are nonetheless.

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Old May 14, 2013 | 05:50 PM
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Has anyone realized when opening the sunroof, it stops a good 3 inches from the stop location? To open it fully, you have to press the open button a second time. I never noticed until today.
Mine stops an inch or so from the full open position. I almost always drive with the moonroof open, and had never noticed that.
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It does that because of sound. If all your windows are up and you open it all the way, the sounds is really bad. My previous Avalon did the same thing.
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It does that because of sound. If all your windows are up and you open it all the way, the sounds is really bad. My previous Avalon did the same thing.
Really? An inch makes that much of a difference? I would have never guessed!
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Try it, it's amazing the difference it makes
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Yeah, its to stop the helicopter sound effect when windows are all closed. Neat feature in my book.
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Originally Posted by obadea
It does that because of sound. If all your windows are up and you open it all the way, the sounds is really bad. My previous Avalon did the same thing.
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Most ever car has this same calibration. I open it fully only if I have the back window cracked.
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I never noticed this. Thanks for posting. My other car has a pop up leading edge wind deflector to reduce the wind buffeting noise.
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Lol haven't noticed as I never open my moon roof I always tilt it.
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Originally Posted by bigblack06
Lol haven't noticed as I never open my moon roof I always tilt it.
I tilt also and just crack the shade, my last two GS's did the same.
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Originally Posted by bigblack06
Lol haven't noticed as I never open my moon roof I always tilt it.
I'd say yesterday was maybe the third time opening the sunroof since I usually tilt also. It was sunset and the weather was perfect so I opened everything up, including the engine.
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My camry does the same
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Originally Posted by yardie876
I'd say yesterday was maybe the third time opening the sunroof since I usually tilt also. It was sunset and the weather was perfect so I opened everything up, including the engine.
Gotta love the way it sounds and feels when shes all opened up for ya. I put on my K&N CAI, wow, the sound is so sweet.
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Gotta love the way it sounds and feels when shes all opened up for ya. I put on my K&N CAI, wow, the sound is so sweet.
Dude you need to post a video of that, I want to hear if there is a change in sound.
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Originally Posted by terrycs
I never noticed this. Thanks for posting. My other car has a pop up leading edge wind deflector to reduce the wind buffeting noise.
So does the GS4.
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