good quality tint should be fine for years, and it can removed, so I don't see how that would have any effect on the value.

First of all, amen brother. I was raised on TV in the seventies to mid eighties, before it became the big garbage dump it is today. That didn't do me any good. I am soon to take delivery of a 3.0T scuba blue/black and labored over whether or not to keep the pano, mainly because of the heat issue. Since I'm getting the comfort package with ventilated seats, I decided to keep the pano. I read prior posts of tinting causing cracking, but I'm guessing that had more to do with the prior recall for defective pano roof glass than the tinting itself. I'm not sure if I'll tint or not. I'm thinking tinting would obscure the view, somewhat defeating the purpose.

I have the www.huperoptikusa.com/ ceramic tint and it doesn't obscure the view at all...

Does anyone know if the sunroof has no tint like the front windows or is it tint glass like the rear windows?

At least here in Texas it's listed as "deep tint", so I would expect it's probably tinted about like the rear windows are, but haven't exactly taken a light meter out to the dealer or anything. :)

The tint on the pano roof is about the same as the rear passenger windows and tailgate window...

Because it is a personal thing. People on this board think that Scuba Blue with Chestnut interior looks bad or at least isn't a great combo. I got it and love it; absolutely love it. What I don't love, though, is the California sun shining in that I can't block. And paying money to 'tint' the problem v.s. losing $600-1000 on trade seems to be a wash for me.

Who knew a sunroof could be so controversial!? I am concerned about the perforated sunroof shade combined with a Texas summer sun, but I love sunroofs and won't go without. The black headliner does seems to lessen the effect of the sun shining directly overhead, though. To each his own!

YES!

It's your money so buy one you like and drive on.

If your dealer allows, take the panorama car and park it to your driveway for 2-3 hours on noon sunlight and you will quickly learn how hot it gets. Then take your wife and ask her to sit on back seat and drive off to see how much you need to blast the A/C and how long it takes driving around that the back seat feels comfy and not sweat the crap out.

Too often ours have stood 2 hours outside during the 100F sunny noon and usually takes about 2 hours highway drive to cool the interior to the point that wife and kiddo on her carseat don't sweat like in sauna.

We have the normal sunroof on our other car and that with hard cover is far better than panorama and that perforated thin wimpy rag...

If one lives up north where sun is not as intense as further south then panorama could be nice toy but at 90-100F temperatures it's the option we will make sure we don't have.

It's horrible, and you're a horrible person for liking it. :D (Not a Chestnut fan, personally, though pre-facelift's Cinnamon was surprisingly nice. I'm a stodgy old black-lover, though, so what do I know about taste? :) )

It can be hard to really compare sale values since it's so uncommon. For the right buyer, it could be worth more than one that has the sunroof. And of course since sunroofs were first invented there's people out there who hate them and never want them (who would go so far as to fill it in if they couldn't get a car without).

Personally I'm ambivalent, but can understand people not wanting it at all (especially with the issues VAG used to have with sunroofs -- I get to clean out the drainage hoses on my wife's Golf for the sunroof that she never opens). And if you're planning on keeping the Q5 for a while then the value difference won't end up mattering too much compared to you not having to "deal with it" for however many years.