Greg Bell

Hi, like a few of you I have been trying to figure out a way of keeping the rear seal flush with the window. Over time the channel can get cracks in it and it allows the seal to lift. As you know the seal presses into a grove in a channel afixed to the rear window and the fixes I've seen to date are to either to replace the rear window or fill the channel with sealant, neither of which I wanted to do.

I had some plastic tubing left over from running water to my fridge from the filter and thought I may be able to do something with it. I cut a piece slightly longer than where the cracks in the channel are then split the tube down the outside of the curve so that it will compress when pushed into the space between the body and the channel. I used a tool for pushing rubber strips into fly screens on windows and doors, it was a little fiddly getting it in but the seal is now locked in place by the tube pressing on the channel. You wouldn't know it's in there.