What kit or other stuff to use for sealing rear-window?
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What kit or other stuff to use for sealing rear-window?
Hi all,
I am still getting water in my boot and I think I have traced it down to the place where the cable-connector is at the top of the rear-window. Water is slowly seaping through. It isn't much what comes through per minute, but when it is raining heavily for days, well, you get the idea...
My question is what can I use to seal this. As the plastic where I need to kit is black I want something which is also black. I have been doubting between four things:
- liquid gasket (unknown price)
- silicone-kit (@ 8,95 a tube)
- acryl-kit (@3,95 a tube)
- unknown, some sort of kit which was available at Brezan Carparts and was specially made for this (@ 11 euro a tube).
Anyone who can advise me on how to proceed? Surley someone must have done this before (succesfully)?
I am still getting water in my boot and I think I have traced it down to the place where the cable-connector is at the top of the rear-window. Water is slowly seaping through. It isn't much what comes through per minute, but when it is raining heavily for days, well, you get the idea...
My question is what can I use to seal this. As the plastic where I need to kit is black I want something which is also black. I have been doubting between four things:
- liquid gasket (unknown price)
- silicone-kit (@ 8,95 a tube)
- acryl-kit (@3,95 a tube)
- unknown, some sort of kit which was available at Brezan Carparts and was specially made for this (@ 11 euro a tube).
Anyone who can advise me on how to proceed? Surley someone must have done this before (succesfully)?
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I used Clear Silicon, using the "normal" type of Gun that you would use to seal a bath. The trick here is to make the hole on the Silicon small and work slowly. Practice on something other than your car first. Another good thing to know is to to spite on your finger to smooth it. Spite (from your mouth for the dutch guys) really is the only thing to stop the silicon sticking on your fingers and making a right old mess. Learnt all this from my father in law, he has a windows and conservatory company.
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Hi Steve,hereagain wrote:Another thought, as you do nopt want to get anything to mark the exterior of your car, try removing the roof inside the car and sealing from there...it might work.
I believe it is not where the cable come out of the roof of the car, but where the connector reaches the rear-window where it leaks... At least I hope it is just that...
My brother had some black silicone-kit which he used for the kitchen, can use that! Will try this weekend.
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the black kitchen type silicone kit will be ok. but it may not so much be acril type, but silecone.
if no fun, you can paint some kits.
for spite (spuug) you can also use all kinds of (dishwash) soap on your fingers, in other sircumstances also a special plastic chissel, they often do extra on a tube of kit.
I used sista bathroom kit, with high silecone content (transperant) UV resitant (for the outside kitting of rear lights, roof rubbers)
The best (strongest) kit there is is the 100% silecone kit, in small glue tubes, suitable to make aquariums
Luck
JPF
PS :How did you found out where the leak was ?
if no fun, you can paint some kits.
for spite (spuug) you can also use all kinds of (dishwash) soap on your fingers, in other sircumstances also a special plastic chissel, they often do extra on a tube of kit.
I used sista bathroom kit, with high silecone content (transperant) UV resitant (for the outside kitting of rear lights, roof rubbers)
The best (strongest) kit there is is the 100% silecone kit, in small glue tubes, suitable to make aquariums
Luck
JPF
PS :How did you found out where the leak was ?
luck,
JPF
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