Wind noise from sunroof, need positioning help

[Staszek]

So I replaced the sunroof headliner material since it was coming off and a mess. I wish would have read the directions about how you could do this without actually taking out the sunroof glass, but I didnt. Anyway everything went back in and works, but now I am getting pretty bad wind noise. It looks aligned right, but maybe its supposed to be lower or higher. Should the panel be slightly recessed a tiny bit in the front? Mine looks dead flush even but still getting the noise.

[Ruskii]

Do you have any gap between glass panel and roof, especially towards the front of the car? I had a similar issue with wind noise after headliner redo. My glass panel would not close all the way against old gasket no matter how many time I tried to reposition it -- there was 1mm gap. New sunroof gasket fixed the issue.

[Staszek]

Its possible, I will have to check that.

[Ruskii]

Here is the thread I started when I had a similar issue: https://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/s...1mm-gasket-gap

[Staszek]

Here is the thread I started when I had a similar issue: https://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/s...1mm-gasket-gap

Awesome thanks, I will try replacing the gastket.

[Timm]

Here's how to adjust it to get rid of wind-noise - the adjustment is different to the steel sunroof:

https://www.meeknet.co.uk/E38/Moonroof/Index.htm

[racer2086]

I've tried 6 ways to Sunday and I still get wind noise. The E38 has a fatal flaw of noise with that moonroof glass. Even when the car was new it had the noise, and the dealer said that's the best it's gonna get.

[Ruskii]

I think that's why they improved the sunroof gasket and made it "thicker" so it seals better. New gasket solved my problem.

[racer2086]

I put a new one on my car years ago. Improved, but there is still noise there.