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To: spitfires <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Floppy Window
From: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
Date: 26 Oct 2000 08:23:56 -0500
OK, so most of you never use your hard-tops, so this won't be a problem to you,
 but someone may have the answer...

Triumph, in their great wisdom, decided that our cars had no need of a
 quarter-light on the door windows.  As a result, there is not much to stop the
 windows flapping in and out.  As a result, my window leans out of the car,
 just a little, but enough that it does not press snugly against the rubber
 seal on the hard-top towards the top of the window.  At speed, the passing air
 outside the window sucks the window out a little further, and an unpleasant
 little draught sneaks in around the gap and blasts the back of my neck.

So, my question is, is there any way of either stiffening the window against
 its wobble (could there be a bit bit of looseness in the way the slider fits
 in the guides?), and/or adjusting the whole thing so that it's natural angle
 leans a bit more into the car, so that there is something to compress the
 window against my (nice new) window seals?

I will get the trim panel off and have a look at the set-up, but I was just
 wondering if anyone else has already been through this?

Richard and Daffy (them draughts is getting colder as November approaches...)

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