WTB W116 sunroof frame - do they exist without rust?

[CraigB]

Mainly wanting to tap into experience here to see how hard i might have to search locally. I have 2 W116's in my yard at the moment with rust sunroof frames, that are leaking. The most urgent to get out of my yard is a friends car that I have been doing some work to. I also have W126 frames sitting around and no sign of rust. So wondering if this is an inherent problem for the W116 and almost impossible to find a good one - or that i have got 2 cars that have been sitting around with blocked drains and unloved for a long time. Both sunroofs work fine otherwise.

So I am interested if you have one too, but not the easiest part to freight being big and a bit flimsy. Ideally, one will turn up in upullit, but just like the 108, so common for so long but now none around. I can of course weld new steel. My friends not keen to go to that expense so will just clean the rust and plug it up with something for now.... but I hate putting valuable time into short term bodges that inevitably need to be redone.

[njv]

Craig,
you can fit 126 sunroofs, they only require simple re welding to two small roof mounts on the rear end. we did it on our 6.9

[CraigB]

That's fantastic! Thanks so much for that. Kinda makes sense when I think it is Webasto make the roof for Mercedes that they could use the same basic parts. I just happen to have 2 spare W126 ones.

[AMG]

That's good information to know. Thanks for sharing!

[AMG]

Craig,
Don't deplete your stash of w126 parts... you know you're going to need them yourself one day ;)

Get your friend to find a w126 sunroof first... ;)