Windscreen seal

[jemgee]

Having left the car out in the rain I found the footwells wet. There was a line of drips hanging from the seal above the windscreen so checking up back posts it seems likely to be the original sealant which has dried out and cracked.

 

There seems to be very little posted on what to use other than Comma Seek'nSeal which is not made any more. I don't feel inclined to pay for removal and refixing the old or a new screen but is there is anything else I can try?

[mikehardwick]

Mike

 

Black sealant goo applied between windscreen/stainless trim and trim/ windscreen frame did it for me. It is applied from a cartridge with one of those gun things - can't remember the name of the goo, but your local windscreen specialist will be able to point you in the right direction.

It's also worth checking the seal round the wiper spindles - they can leak, especially the drivers side.

 

Good luck

 

Mike

[Hasbeen]

SIKAFLEX is the stuff you want.

All the windscreen people use it in Oz.

[tr7jim]

jamgee,

 

If you can keep the car under cover and get it bone dry and suggest you remove the small stainless steel cover in the middle and maybe use a hair dryer at this point for a bit and then using suggested sealant pump the sealant in each direction till you can't get anymore in. Wipe off access sealant and refit cover. This work on my old Triton green fixedhead.

 

All depends on getting it bone dry and working in the sealant behind the stainless seal trims both ways.

 

Hope it works for you.

 

I would also suggest you look under the lower windsreen cover to check if its going rotton out of site out of mind.

 

Jim Johnson

[jemgee]

After an internet search I came across this - Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure - its not a joke!

 

http://www.captaintolley.com/

 

I managed to buy a bottle locally for £5.49 so I will give it a try and post the result.

[tr7v8]

yeah works a treat that stuff use it alot in the martine world captain

 

Tom

[CraigAddison]

I got so fed up with having the top of the dash fill up with water I thought I'd see if i could locate the leak/s, the seal had perished that much I just lifted the windscreen away from the car, seal & chrome intact! Ordered a new top tint screen from Autoglass & got it fitted a few days later, now sporting the modern urethane sealant and we're now dry as a bone (before it got laid up in the garage anyway!) would recommend having this done if your screen leaks badly.

[jemgee]

Capt Tolley seems to be doing his stuff. This morning I hung towels over the dashboard and fed the fluid in between the trim and the body. The milky liquid flowed through in small drips from numerous places. I moved the centre clip aside and fed against the glass edge but no more came through so it appears to be loss of bond between the body and the sealant rather than the screen itself. I also fed the fluid down each side but there did not appear to be any problem there.

 

This afternoon I repeated the job and this time there was only one weep centrally and this then stopped. The fluid seemed to lie on the outside edge so I am hopeful that one more application will do the trick.

 

I also managed to buy a cartridge of black sealant/adhesive for fixing windscreens from a motor factor which I was asssured is the equivalent to Sikaflexx 221 so I might have a crack at running a bead against the trim next as a belt and braces job.

 

I checked with a windscreen company and they said that Rover had problems with their early screens as they were not coated with the black ceramic bonded paint which is on the edge of modern screens. This is what the adhesive sticks to rather than the glass itself.