mcphatty

I know a lot of people have been complaining about their sunroof bezels popping off, so I thought I'd make a quick write-up on how I fixed it on my car.

I had a lot of trouble getting the bezel to stay in place once I popped it back on, only having it pop back off everytime I used the sunroof. This is a little bit of a sloppy fix, but it seems to do the job, and will hold that bezel very securely.

I dont have a picture of what the clips looked like before the fix, but on the left side of the opening you'll need to flatten out the metal clips as shown in the picture below. You'll also need to flatten out the clip opposite of the one circled.



Now we need to focus on the actual bezel. Shave the outer edges of one of the clips on the bezel, and shave a little off of the grabbing part of the clip too. This will allow it to fit between the loop and the clip of the flattened metal.



From there, its easiest if you pull down the headliner. You can do this pretty easy by just folding up the weather stripping around the sunroof, and pulling down on the headliner.



Align the shaved clip with the metal loop in the headliner. Push down from the inside of the headliner while you're pushing up on the bezel and everything should snap back into place. If done correctly, it'll look good as new, and wont be falling back down anytime soon.

Haith

Thanks.
Too bad my stealership didn't know about this. The service manager accused me of breaking it (the little edges of the clip that grab seemed stripped to me) so he then proceded to push it up so hard that he damaged the retainer clip and now the whole headliner would have to come out and new retainer clip (under warranty).
I went and bought a new bezel ($7.50 Can), fixed the clip and and installed the bezel myself.
No way I was going to let them get warranty bucks after the way I was treated.

Halfcent

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/how-guide-43/how-fix-sunroof-trim-ring-21603/

Yeah, I thought this looked familiar.

You have a good picture of shaving the plastic tabs however, which is helpful.

bluecobaltss06

There's a bulletin for this to replace the plasic bezel and metal retainer. It's under warranty. If your cars not its only about 15 bucks in parts and about 10 minutes to install.

mcphatty

every time i took it back to the dealer, it eventually came right back off. this offers more of a permanent solution

beercan

haha .. my dealer here must be stupid .. mine pissed me off so many times that i just punched it in there one day and it broke the clip off the bezel .. i took it to them yesterday and they ordered the whole thing new and they are gonna fix it tomorrow haha

Halfcent

I just ordered the TSB parts. Doing this next week. I'll add the details to my how-to after.

bandit

ya thats a nice trick mine was in there a lil sideways since i got the car i fixed it too pretty much the same way but i am considering re-doing the ceiling with vynil and moving the switch to down near my e-brake

UltraCSS

Hrmm...

jeremie

i prefer the ..punch the bezel back in place method. but this also works

YSUsteven

I prefer making the my dealer fix it. They did with no hassle.

FaSSter

Dealer fixed mine, and it popped right out again. Ended up using a bit of superglue, and never had a problem since.

erockxp

I can't see the pictures on this write up, user error or are they not showing up for anyone?

b00sted06ss

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good write up ive had a 08 sport and currently a 06 ss/sc and both of the sunroof bezels have popped off

jaygo7007

wheres the pics?

SS-Performance-RS

Can we get pictures for this?

DiabeticKripple

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One of my tabs broke. Thinking of glueing it on the headliner

Ceej

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This thread is 5 years old. Pics are probably gone for good