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My pressure hose got a leak in it that was concealed by the heat wrap where it passes the cat. converter, couldn't really be sure where or why the leak was, but the connection at the pump was dry where it had a slow drip coming off the rubber hose section, and it was dry all along the metal section leading to the steering valve body. SO GLAD mine isn't AWD or the space occupied by the PTU would have made this all multiples more difficult. Anyway after replacing the $50-ish part (glad I had close-quarter ratcheting box wrenches for that banjo bolt on the pump end of it) - found a soft or kinked-during-assembly weird spot just above the crimped connection to the metal line, and stripping away the heat wrap, could see the impression of the fabric of the heat wrap on the surface of the rubber hose at that area, telling me it was bloating under pressure there and in some integrity trouble I wasn't willing to risk putting off replacing it and have it possibly blow out when I'd neither the time or cash to handle it...a minor whew, but probably an isolated quality glitch that not many folks will experience, but thought I'd post just in case it helps someone...

My vista sunroof got stuck open 3" while out of town, got some duct tape and cardboard to get it home, read Thomas Sun's post on initialization, but did my own variant by first opening the sunroof fully by holding the button until it got there, cleaned the tracks out with WD40 as solvent, a toothbrush, and Qtips until the blackness was pretty much gone, then lubed it all real light with silicone spark plug boot grease in the tracks for the glass, giving special attention to the cam features in the front edge of the track, and cleaned/lubed the shade tracks and all the sealing surfaces with silicone spray on paper towels and Qtips to minimize the risk of oil-soiling the shades, headliner, etc. (got a lot more gunky buildup off the weather stripping than I though I would). Then followed the instructions on initialization, worked 1st try...... Thomas Sun deserves a payday for that info!!!