I thought I'd give this thread some love. It's nothing too exciting, but it's progress. We bought a New Port wiper kit earlier this year. It's a great kit and perfect for a car that does not have an electric sunroof :whacked:. However, we had problems. The main problem being that the passenger side wiper comes out just past the middle of the windshield right where the sunroof motor wants to go as shown in the last pic. We cut up the case of that motor because we thought we could make that work, but it didn't as you can see and we ruined the motor. Then I bought a later model sunroof motor that did clear, but did not "bolt up" like the original one. I made brackets before realizing that the sunroof structure I was going to attach them to is aluminum and I'm not set up for it with my mig.
We then gave up and bought the SPW kit where the passenger side wiper comes out much further over to the right with a remote motor (which would allow the VW molded headliner to fit also). After receiving this kit we decided it was not quite as nice. Also after all we had gone through a universal kit was not someting we really wanted to get into. if we were going to drill new holes in the car and lose money on the New Port kit we may as well just use it and move the holes for the wipers over one inch to the right and cut the top wiper bar to clear the sunroof motor. I will add the pictures of the solution later on, but the first three show the problem.
http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/z...h/IMG_0630.jpg
http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/z...h/IMG_0629.jpg
http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/z...h/IMG_0625.jpg
Also, I had an anti street rod moment a while back where I came up with an idea to adapt a "windshield crank handle" to the plasctic sunroof control panel. The VW sunroof knob is a dial that you turn so when you look up all you will see is the chrome handle to give a more original look to it. Now I just need to finalize/troubleshoot the sunroof wiring so it actually works :HMMM: