When I drive with the sunroof open, I often forget to close it when leaving and locking the car.  I'm getting better at remembering, but a few times I've come out to the car in the morning and realised that the roof's been left open all night.

 

Is there a way to have it close automatically when the car is locked, or after a period of inactivity or similar?  I realise I can hold the lock button on the key fob to close all windows and the sunroof, but this still relies on me remembering to do it!

Not that I’ve found. 

You could just wait until the first overnight heavy rain storm, that'll gee you up to remember not to leave it open in the future. 

 

Or you could buy a tall house plant and leave it on the front passenger seat, if you see it poking up through the roof as you walk away from the car; you've left your sun roof open. 

 

Anyone know the postal address for Dragon's Den? 

You would think that they could fit a device that closes the windows and sunroof if it rains.................

hang on my previous Yeti had that, seems the penny pinchers have saved a few pence on this along with doing away with the alarm disable switch that used to be on the drivers door pillar.

Not sure what lead to the removal of the 'rain closing' feature.

 

It has disappeared from the MkIII Superb too.

 

It was a really neat feature. The rain sensor on the windscreen that controls the automatic wipers would automatically close the windows and sunroof if it started to rain.

30 minutes ago, silver1011 said:

Not sure what lead to the removal of the 'rain closing' feature.

 

It has disappeared from the MkIII Superb too.

 

It was a really neat feature. The rain sensor on the windscreen that controls the automatic wipers would automatically close the windows and sunroof if it started to rain.

 

AIUI it was all down to safety... so children would not put their arm out of the sunroof whilst it was closing... WTF?? 

what ever happened to parental responsibility??

 

Oh yes that will be all down to the generation of snowflakes that are being bred 

Edited 5 January, 20197 yr by Gizmo

They don't trust them with an automatically closing sunroof, but do with a gun?? 

 

You'd hope that the anti-trap feature would remain active though?

 

I thought that the windows would stop by themselves if they detected a finger or an arm in their way.

 

You'd imagine the rain-sensing feature wouldn't be be any less safe than the regular operation.

 

Shame. I once came out of a hotel one morning after a night of heavy rain to see a BMW M3 with all its windows down and a saturated interior.