My sun roof on my 01 S60 rattles when I drive on a not so smooth freeway. I took it off and checked the bolts there all on tight. It seems to be the slodes in the track.. like the track is too wide. and thoughts on fixing this?

 

There is glass supports on the front and rear of the glass that come loose and sit in the sunroof shade and rattle look for them.
They are long skinny metal bars.

 

yea, but it the actual sun roof that has a hair of play, its the entire slid/hinge assembley thingy...

 

Hmmm it shouldn't I would have to see it from here to be able to tell you more now.

 

I have the same annoying rattle on my '02 S60. Like Scott6 - only happens on not so smooth roads. Can'tlocate the source...

 

Yea.. I took the sun roof completly apart, and well, it seem to be the entire assembles, looks liek the onyl fix is to replace everythign but the glass top. (slides, rails, all that junk in there)

 

That noise generally is caused when the metal piece that attaches to the part of the sunroof glass that goes up falls off. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of glue they used to put it on (you can see the old glue on it)

 

Really its not. Its the slides.. I took it apart. The tracks themselvs are like too wide, and the slides that move inside them have play from left to right.

 

Okay - I have an 02 s60. Sunroof was rattling like crazy when shut only. It would not rattle when tilted up. WHen you pushed on the glass when closed, you could feel play in the mechanism. When you pushed on the glass when tilted, no play. All four bolts holding the glass on were TIGHT. No brackets were "unglued" or anything like that. I became convinced that the play in the system was simply related to worn rails or worn mechanism. I determined my only chance at avoiding major $$$$ to replace the rails was to loosen the 4 screws holding the glass to the mechanism that are behind the accordian things, move the rear of the glass to the lowest adjustment (toward the bottom of the car) and then drive with the tilt slightly actuated. The adjustment was to make the top of the glass match the roof when the tilt was slightly actuated.

Well, this did not work. when i finished, the ?(*&$#@! thing rattled in the slightly uptilted position. HOWEVER - it did NOT rattle in the fully down position!!!!! So now my rattle was fixed but the top of the glass was goofy relative to the top of the car. So I slowly started adjusting the glass upwards in the back, bringing it more even with the roof, hoping my rattle would not come back. i got it up to Volvo geek acceptable position with the roof, and PRAISE THE LORD - still no rattle!!!!!!!! BLESSED SILENCE on craterfilled minnesota roads on my thin as paris hilton 50 series tires.

So when all the usual forum fixes DO NOT FIX YOUR RATTLE, start playing with the attitude of your glass until your test drive is rattle-less.

A new glass gasket ($1XX from Volvo) or a new glass ($6XX from volvo) would probably reduce the amount of FINESSE you need to accomplish this fix. If anyone knows where to get these cheap, i would like to know.