Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8096
Put the bonnet in extended position to remove the battery, it can save a few trips to a chiropractor It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
14th Sep 2022 7:48 am
Tone1
Member Since: 11 Sep 2022
Location: Clacton-on-sea
Posts: 5
Thanks again for your help. Would you disconnect both batteries... there is two.. one is smaller, I'm guessing like a leisure battery for the night heater. Also I don't seem to have a code for radio which I suppose will come up when I reconnect the batteries ? Anyone have a part number for the replacement rubber elbows ?
Thanks
14th Sep 2022 8:37 am
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
Posts: 10363
The radio does not have a code as it can't fit anything else.
Deffo disconnect battery
14th Sep 2022 12:09 pm
Tone1
Member Since: 11 Sep 2022
Location: Clacton-on-sea
Posts: 5
OK thanks for that info... I'll order the elbows then attack it... wish me luck .
14th Sep 2022 12:51 pm
cjaw
Member Since: 23 Sep 2017
Location: exeter
Posts: 14
Passenger sunroof drain
I have done several of these, your choice is SELL the car!! OR remove fuse box, as said not a nice job but be patient, you just cannot get to the rubber grommet with the fuse box in place, I know i have tried! I also remove the outer wing by the door shut to access the drain hole. (Easy on D4 as they have a vent this side). Buy a completely new hose and end to ensure you don't have to do it again!!!
15th Sep 2022 9:40 am
Bungle
Member Since: 07 Apr 2015
Location: Wanborough
Posts: 254
Tone1 wrote:
Thank you for your replies.. did you have any issues once you plugged fuse board back in... fault codes and things not working ? I'm hearing some horror stories about it. Did you disconnect the battery ? I will try pushing a wire down the pipe first but I think if it was blocked it'd be leaking around head lining... its not.. water appears in the channel where wires run in front passenger foot well as soon as I put a drop of water onto sun roof. Typically I think it off the 4 tubes this looks the hardest to fix..I was going to change all 4 rubber elbows.
I had no problems relating to errors, and actually taking out/refitting the CJB isn't the problem, it is disconnecting and reconnecting the multiplugs on the back of it that is a nightmare.
15th Sep 2022 1:57 pm
darrind
Member Since: 04 Jul 2008
Location: In A World of My Own!
Posts: 2863
Make sure you have a good collection of swear words to do this job, you will use them all many times! However after a few failed attempts to reconnect everything it just then made sense that you have to turn some of the connectors to get the clearance needed to get them to seat and after many attempts it just went!
I disconnected the battery after letting the car go to sleep and did a hard reset afterwards, all was good in the world, and also got a collection of step down connectors for my aqua vac that allowed me to get some small pipework under the carpet to get as much of the water out!Must stop buying shiny toys....
16th Sep 2022 12:51 am
Tone1
Member Since: 11 Sep 2022
Location: Clacton-on-sea
Posts: 5
Afternoon peoples,, I have today successfully removed the cjb .. it was very tricky.. and as said.. the rear plugs were a mare to reconnect. I found that my rubber elbow had split as in picture. I don't know why this should happen its a 2013 so not that old.
I couldn't have attempted this without your help...thanks again.
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