Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:43:23 -0700
Reply-To: Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
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From: Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
Subject: Subject: Re: Post chrome strip rubber cleaning Q
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I took my "chrome" strips out a week after I bought my Syncro in '95.
So far, no windshields have popped out unannounced, I still have all
the other windows and I've found no rust. I live in the SF Bay Area
where it rains quite a bit in the winter but not much at all in the
summer. We have very high winds up here and in the Sacramento and
Central Valley and if those winds can't suck my trim-deficient
windshield out, then I am fairly certain I don't need to spend too much
more time worrying about it.
Kicking out windshields in a junkyard sounds like a lot of fun, but it
qualifies as proof of little, if anything.
I personally prefer the blacked out look of the later vans to the
chrome and silver of my original '87 so I'm on a personal crusade to
eliminate all things chrome from my Westy. Except the nifty VW logos
front and back of course.
Jeff / 87 Syncro Westy
On May 16, 2005, at 3:53 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 18:00:43 -0400
> From: Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Re: Post chrome strip rubber cleaning Q
>
> Wow, lots of interest in this subject.I stand by my reporting of the
> junkyard caper. Why risk the windshield popping out and hurting
> someone,
> just for a cool black gasket look,or because someone dosent like the
> old
> stuff,and lacks the ability to reinstall them?.VW went to the trouble
> to
> put them in for a reason.I have seen them on other makes too.Who am I
> to
> remove them? Not me , thats all. This is the main reason that I
> replaced
> all my strips when I had my westy repainted recently.Took all the
> windows
> out myself.Yes, I have tried to do this the other way and I ruined a
> $20
> strip. I had the "tool", but I think it takes a 4 year degree in auto
> body
> to know how to use it.Even then, I dont think it will work properly. I
> installed my windows w/the new locking strips, and still couldnt get
> the
> sliding door strip right.I paid $35 for a professional to reinstall the
> strip . He used the tool, and butchered my strip. Each corner was ,I
> dont
> know how to describe it ,ruffff,and the chrome bad.Not the smooth
> chrome
> like the rest the strip had.The body shop where I had my van done, said
> that the tool will not work well. Even a go westy salesperson agreed
> with
> me on this, when I bought the strips ,and not the tool that was
> offered..They sell the tool but install the strip the way that I do.
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