Rear Door Window Seal - Looks like its incorrectly fitted both sides

[brumey]

Has anyone noticed or can you take a look at the top of the black rubber windows seal. It's on the rear doors, both matching and in the same place. It's the top horizontal seal, closest to the front doors. It does not overlap and dips down for about 4 inches. See attached picture.

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[Hacksaw]

Yours is slightly more exaggerated than on mine but yes, similar on mine. If you take your thumbnail and slide it down from the painted metal above, down to the weatherstrip interface, the weatherstrip is slightly higher than the painted metal to the right of that 4" section, and the weatherstrip is either flush with or slightly lower than the painted metal within this 4" segment.

 

[brumey]

So we can assume normal? Looks like crap now that I have noticed it I need to stop washing the car as I keep noticing new stuff....

 

[72and10bulls]

So we can assume normal? Looks like crap now that I have noticed it I need to stop washing the car as I keep noticing new stuff....

For real just looked at ours in the garage seems a little off but will double check it in the sun light.

 

[Hacksaw]

So we can assume normal? Looks like crap now that I have noticed it I need to stop washing the car as I keep noticing new stuff....

There must be a reason for it. I didn't roll the window down and check whether there's a "bump" in the underlying metal that the weatherstrip fits into (e.g. a spot weld or overlapping metal joint), compared to the parts to the right. Or maybe the top edge of the window glass itself is not perfectly horizontal and is slightly higher on the left and compresses the weatherstrip more on the left end when rolled all the way up.

Did you happen to roll the window down and jiggle or pull out and re-insert the weatherstrip to see if you can make it all uniform, if not for the window compressing it?

 

[brumey]

I did roll the windows down and made a small effort to roll out some of the edge but I was not successful. I may try again this weekend.

 

[Kennyg]

Hmm. I wonder if this might be the reason for the wind noise some people, including me, are reporting?

 

[vanessa_mcclanahan]

Yes, I also have that issue.

 

[jankphil]

Mine also does this, I don't really have any issues with wind noise though.

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