re:Milano sunroof.

[Domenic Lippolis <domlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart,

I recently replaced the sunroof in my Verde with a whole new unit.  Mine
also does this deflector hitting you spoke of.  I have heard one way is to
lube it up well and it goes down.  I suppose that just removing it is
another option.

Another tip is that the aftermarket plastic deflector from a VW Passat fits
nicely.

Dom

>Hello All,
>
>Here is my first contribution. This weekend I have worked on the sunroof of
>my 88 AR Milano Verde. It had two problems:
>1	The position of sunroof was to high compared to the roof of the car.
>2	When closing the sunroof I had to manually push the "wind spoiler"
>down to prevent the sunroof hitting it.
>
>Repositioning or removing the sunroof is fairly simple after sliding back
>the headliner panel. The procedure for disconnecting the headliner panel
>from the metal sunroof is fairly good explained in "The Alfa 75 / Milano
>Resource" on the Web.
>In my case I slided the headliner panel back (I had to slightly push the
>panel down at the back-end when the sunroof was still in tilted position,
>before it was able to slide under the roof). And ultimately removed the
>sunroof to get access to the mechanism to clean and grease it.
>
>The second problem appears to be a common problem with Milanos. Probably
>that's the reason why the sunroof was positioned so high in the past. There
>are two fragile pieces that push the spoiler down when closing and those
>were bend upwards. My recommendation is to mount some small pieces on it. 
>
>However I tried to bend them back downwards and the first one broke. After
>looking at it again, bending wouldn't have been sufficient anyway. My
>workaround was to remove the complete wind spoiler!
>
>Success,
>
>Bart

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