Patent ID: 7334309

Claim:
A method of mounting a roof assembly into the interior of a vehicle having a fixed roof and an interior roof cover shell, including the steps of: providing a frame of the roof assembly supporting an adjustable closure; providing a substrate to be attached to a lower side of the frame, said substrate having an outer circumference; making a roof opening in the vehicle roof adapted to be closed by the closure, and making an opening in the cover shell, the opening defining an inner circumference of the cover shell that is slightly larger than the outer circumference of the substrate, at least at the position of the inner circumference of the cover shell after assembly; mounting the frame and the substrate attached to the lower side thereof to the vehicle roof and fixing the outer circumference of the substrate to the inner circumference of the cover shell opening; demounting the substrate and cover shell as a unit, and providing a flexible cover over the lower side of the cover shell and substrate; and mounting the unit of substrate, cover shell and flexible cover to the frame and vehicle roof.