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The guides that push against the interior window surface wear out over time and eventual start scratching your expensive tint job.
You could buy replacements - at $50 a pop x 2 per window for a total of $200!
Or you can refresh them for not much money and just a bit of time.
A dear friend supplied me with some replacement D-shaped weatherstripping and some velvet coated paper for the job.
It's a simple matter to pull the original felt and rubbers off, the cut the replacement pieces to match. Because the original felt is pretty thick, the replacement D-strip is slightly larger diameter than the original rubber. The velvet paper is pretty thin. Overall the final thickness matches exactly with the original pieces.
I used gel type crazy glue to first bond the new rubber to the metal bracket, then used more to bond the velvet paper to the new rubber.
The following pictures are self explanatory.
To reinstall them, run a length of wire through the D-rubbers and lower it into position beside the window.
nice work. When I did mine, I just used the rubber bumpers that were already on the part and recovered it with felt harvested from one of the dog's toys! Stil works great after many years.
I did kind of the same Linderpat. I just removed the old felt and went down to the local fabric store and found a similar thickness nice soft felt that was supposedly "outdoor" rated and used that. Glued it on, and viola! no more scratched tint.
Timing could not be better...I had a nice tint job done last year and the passenger side is messed up and will have to be re-done. Couple that with a new window felt seal (the groove the window goes into when it's up) and power window motor that apparently has a bad connection at the motor end = weekend passenger door project....
More details on the D molding you found? Size specifically? This seems like a very elegant solution especially for folks with film tint on their side windows. Of course, by the time I buy a 20' roll of that molding and the felt, there will be enough to do 50 cars. 49 Of which I don't currently own... Maybe an opportunity to get rich giving away service kits.
If you do end up picking up some beyond your needs, I'd happily help reduce the overstock...
On a related note, I was getting quotes on tint locally and the local shop to my work declined to quote for the 928, claiming that it was too difficult and time consuming.
This prompted my purchase of tools and tint, since even the car that they would quote was $250 for basic dyed film.
07-29-2019 | 06:06 PM
Refurbishing Window Felt Guides
