Hi everone. I did my best to search about this one, but didn't find anything. Curious if it's something folks have encountered. While clearing out sunroof drains and replacing the tail nipples (holy f is that passenger side one a pain!) I spent some quality time up with my sunroof. Noticed the "scissor" mechanism that runs along the tracks and lifts/lowers the sunroof glass has many small cracks along and across its length. Glass reinforced plastic part, and still working normally, but boy would I like to replace it before my sunroof flies off or fails open before a thunderstorm!

Anyone come across this? Glass is still fine, and motor is happy, so I'd love to just replace the sunroof mechanism, without having to scrap the whole assembly. Is that possible? Haven't been able to find any parts kits so I'm not getting my hopes up, but maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.
Thanks!

Cracks evident in the "scissor" arm roughly in the center of the photo. Apologies for the quality -- will take a better photo tomorrow in the daylight if folks can't figure out what I'm talking about.

 

....they all have them. I'm pretty sure that is just superficial cracking and doesn't affect anything mechanically or structurally.

 

Thanks! I'll pretend I didn't see anything up there.

 

....on my '05, I got them replaced under warranty (long time ago, obviously) and then NEVER looked at them again!

As far as I'm concerned they are uncracked! If a tree falls in the forest, etc...