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Originally Posted by plasstik
Sunroof is in. Letting the truck sit in the rain to see if the sunroof leaks annnnd one of the rear drain hoses said, ya, I'll pee in your truck for you. Grr!! So, which website is selling these hoses?
BMWparts.com is selling the front hoses for $40 more than I care to spend and the rear hoses are discontinued. I can't seem to find the correct wording for other sites and was wondering if one of you fine Gents knew of another shop? Just like you, I'll pay the $$ but if we don't have to..... ya know.
OR do you have a super sweet trick you'd like to share?
Hose clamp, zip tie, electrical tape, silicone, the power of Christ compels it?(just trying to be funny for those this may offend, the Man upstairs does have a sense of humor)
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From memory, a few years ago ...
When I first got my x5, it had a leaking sunroof drain issue. I accessed it by pulling down the headliner a little (following careful instructions probably found on here).
The basic problem (I remember this part) was that the hoses that run between the headliner and the roof must be made of a material that shrinks over the many years of baking heat up there. So the (vinyl?) hose just shrunk, shortened, and pulled itself out of the plastic barb on the sunroof corners. There may be a rubber connector that interfaces between the hose and the barb, but whatever it takes, solution will be obvious if you have the same problem. That meant the water would drain onto the headliner, but it just followed that along where the hose routed anyway, ending up in the rear well.
My solution, that I think I did on both rear corners even though only one had popped off at that point, was to just add some extra length of hose so it was long enough and could be reconnected to the sunroof outlets. Just a few inches, like 3-4 was plenty. No need to replace the whole hose, just need to make it a little longer.
So I just used whatever size hose best made things work, which I already had in my garage. I may have used some shoe goo, clear RTV, hose clamps, zip ties for structural support, or whatever else it took. Nothing too complicated. Just whatever was needed to add a few inches and make it not likely to pull out if it shrunk any further (not expected).
Have not needed to revisit anything there in 6+ years so far.