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Range Rover panoramic
roof repair, Sydney

Evoque, Velar, Sport, full-size Range Rover, Discovery: the bigger the glass, the more seals and drains there are to let you down. Leaking headlining, blocked drains and sunshades that abandon their tracks are weekly arrivals at our Arncliffe workshop.

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Known faults: Land Rover & Range Rover

What goes wrong up there,
and what we do about it

A panoramic roof is the largest hole anyone ever cut in a car. Land Rover seals it with metres of rubber and drains it through four small tubes — and when either gives up, the symptoms turn up everywhere except where the fault actually is.

Fault 01

Water in the cabin after rain

Blocked drains & tired seals

How it shows up

A damp corner of headlining, a wet A-pillar trim, a musty smell, fog on the inside of the windscreen, or water pooling in a footwell days after the rain stopped. The drains that carry water away down the pillars have silted up with leaf litter and road dust, and the overflow is going into your car instead of under it.

Why it gets misdiagnosed

Water tracks along the headlining and exits nowhere near where it gets in. General workshops respond by running silicone around the glass, sealing the roof's designed drainage paths shut and making the next leak worse.

How we fix it

Controlled water testing until we find the actual entry point. Then we clear and flush every drain tube, replace perished seals with OEM or premium aftermarket rubbers, and water-test again before handover. You see where the water got in before we quote a cent, and the repair is covered by our parts & labour warranty.

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Fault 02

Sunshade off its tracks

Skewed, jammed or drooping

How it shows up

The blind moves further on one side than the other, stops part-way, rattles over bumps, or sags onto your head in the back seats. The sunshade rides on small plastic clips and guides that fatigue in Sydney heat, and once one side lets go the motor keeps driving the other side until the fabric skews and jams.

Why it gets misdiagnosed

The standard dealer answer to a jammed Range Rover sunshade is a complete roof cassette — headlining out, glass out, the lot — for what is very often a broken five-dollar guide. Generalists go the other way and force the blind back, which chews the tracks and turns a small repair into a real one.

How we fix it

We open the roof up, find which clip, guide or carrier has failed, and lay out your options side by side: repair the hardware, remove the blind cleanly, or replace it. Where the blind itself is sound we fix the broken part rather than replacing the lot, and you decide before any work starts.

Sunshade repair in detail → Text a photo of the blind
Fault 03

Grinding or sticking glass panel

Early warning: act now

How it shows up

The opening panel groans, clicks or crawls. Dry rails and grit in the tracks make the motor strain on every cycle — and the same debris that blocks the drains is usually what's chewing the guides.

Why it matters

Noise is the roof asking for help before it fails. Ignore it and one day the panel stops half-open over a leather interior with rain on the radar. Caught early, this is a service, not a rebuild.

How we fix it

Tracks stripped and inspected, worn guides replaced, rails cleaned and lubricated, mechanism realigned and recalibrated so the panel runs quiet and square, then cycled and water-tested before it leaves.

Grinding noises explained → Call about the noise

How a visit works

Four steps. No surprises.

  1. 1

    Tell us the symptom

    Call 0418 200 289 with a photo of the wet headlining or a video of the jammed blind. Most Range Rover owners get a first read on the fault the same day.

  2. 2

    We diagnose, you see it

    Controlled water testing, drain flow checks and electronic diagnostics, whatever the symptom calls for. We show you the entry point or the broken part before anything is quoted.

  3. 3

    We fix it properly

    OEM or premium aftermarket seals, guides and parts, fitted by factory-trained technicians. Nothing happens without your go-ahead on the quote.

  4. 4

    We rain on it before Sydney does

    No pano roof leaves on a promise. Drains flow-tested, seals soaked, cabin checked dry, panel and blind cycled again. The water test is why our repairs stay repaired.

Straight answers

Range Rover roof questions
we hear every week

If yours isn't here, call. You'll get the same straight answer.

Ask us directly
My Range Rover only leaks in heavy rain, light showers are fine. Why?

Because the drains are partly blocked, not fully blocked. A silted drain can still swallow a drizzle, but in a downpour the channel fills faster than it empties and the overflow goes into the headlining. That pattern — fine in light rain, wet after storms — is one of the clearest diagnostic clues there is.

The dealer quoted a complete roof cassette for my jammed sunshade. Do I really need one?

Often not. The blind usually jams because a small guide or clip has fatigued and let go, and the fabric and motor are frequently fine. We open the roof up and inspect before anyone talks about a cassette. If the cassette genuinely is the right call, we'll show you exactly why before you decide. Honest options, side by side, is how we run every sunshade job.

Can a leaking panoramic roof damage the electronics?

Water that gets past the headlining follows the path of least resistance: down pillars, along wiring runs, under carpets where modules and connectors live. That's why a damp smell or a wet footwell corner deserves attention now rather than next month. The earlier we trace the entry point, the smaller the job stays.

Do you work on all Land Rover and Range Rover models?

Yes — Evoque, Velar, Range Rover Sport, the full-size Range Rover and Discovery panoramic roofs and sunroofs all roll through the workshop. Text your model and the symptom to 0418 200 289 and we'll tell you what we'd check first, usually the same business day.

What owners say

From a Range Rover owner

★★★★★

"Michael is the best. My Benz had a seized panoramic sunroof and the motor for the roof died. He had it fixed and working perfectly in three hours. And was by far the most reasonably priced."

Mercedes-Benz · Seized panoramic sunroof & motor
★★★★★

"Impressed. Fixed the roller & sunshade in my BMW X1. Recommend."

BMW X1 · Roller blind & sunshade
★★★★★

"My 2006 Prado sunroof had 1 motor fail and wet carpets due to blocked drains. Michael is very friendly and advised estimate cost for options over phone. Ended up cleaning, drying, sealing the sunroof and disconnecting power switch so can be repaired later if desired. Overall, a pleasure dealing with Michael and team."

Toyota Prado · Sunroof motor & blocked drains
Next step

Wet headlining? Jammed blind? Start with a text.

A photo of where the water shows up — or a short video of the sunshade — is worth ten phone calls. We'll come back with a first read and next steps, usually the same business day.

Call 0418 200 289 Text a photo or video

54/58 Princes Hwy, Arncliffe NSW 2205, minutes from Sydney Airport · Mon–Fri 9am–6pm · Sat 9am–4pm · [email protected]

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