Sunroof - Brilliant or Rubbish?

[spiritdemon]

Thanks that sounds a good assesment.

Yes those open 2CV's seem great too, though the prices are are surprising looking on Autotrader. Suppose it's starting to get into rare classic territory now.

Looking further around the forum it seems it was even more limited as to which models could have it - only the Forte I think. The Modutop looks good but potentially turns it into a greenhouse so the AC then becomes highly desirable. Choices, choices...

My local Citroen 2CV specialist had a sunroof equiped petrol Mk1 as his personal family car and swore it was the best thing ever. As far as he was concerned it put the fun back into the motoring that he had had with his 2CVs. I too thought it was right on the money but by the time I bought mine They were up to Mk2. The options here were "forte" where the sunroof was now a rarely chosen option and "Desire" with its modutop and extra storage options. I wanted a decent deisel and the 2.0 HDi was only available on the desire and the 1.9 was known even then as a bit gutless. Also some safety options were limited to the desire so that is the way we went. That is not to say we were not very tempted to go rag top.

Yes, at the time we should have speced Aircon but only for use abroad, touring continental europe each summer begged for it, but definitely NOT worth the extra for the couple of days it would have been nice to have it in NW England.

How these sunroofs have held up over the years I cannot say but I do know they become porous over time, often need treating with re proofer, need the mechanics servicing and generally like to be cosseted with an under cover and restricted light parking area.

They stopped being an option in 2008 with the introduction of the Mk3 and were dropped from the options list of the Berlingo First. Citroens last ragtop, the Pluriel did have a bad reputation for leaks. My daughters ragtop Fiat 500 is a weathertight thing of beauty and a superb implementation of folding roof but then how will that look in 5 or 10 years?
And as my mrs keeps telling me "more to go wrong" and that goes for aircon too.

Should they still be an option from new NOW though, I would still consider one!