Update on many things:
AC: I couldn't pop off the belt, I understood that the tensioner on the AC bracket is one of those spring-loaded ones, I can't get it to budge at all with a 3/4" breaker bar in the slot on the tensioner.
I've called pretty much every respectable shop advertising AC repair and charging, no one wants to / can deal with an R12 based system. I've got one choice left nearby, it's the same shop the car was in last summer.
Trunk still leaks from the corner/body seam. Very little water has pooled in the taillights, not good, but better I guess.
I'll probably clean up the inside of the body seam and sikaflex the shit out of it from the inside. The parcel shelf / C-pillar seam was a suspect too, but that is dry and clean.
I adjusted the driver door a bit more, it's pretty close height-wise, today I pulled the rear-bottom corner a bit outwards.
The wind noise is still an issue and I'm starting to believe it's the weatherstripping rather than misalignment any more.
Dew wipe is rock-hard and split. Window channel is crappy, split in a couple spots and starting to get brittle. I'm guessing the wind noise is a combination of the window channel and body to door seal.
Mostly the wind noise is coming from the back edge and top-rear corner of the door. At 75 MPH it feels almost like a breeze, even though nothing is wrong visibly.
As you can see, the door squishes the seal quite evenly, but the seal is harder in the top-rear corner. Lower from there I push the seal with my finger and see daylight. Not sure if it's the corner or down from there.
Here's how the front corner looks like:
How useful is this flat piece of weatherstripping above the body seal in the front? 'Cause it's hard and loose too.
To note:
- the driver window has come a bit loose from the mechanism it goes up and down on, most likely the damage in the top front corner has come from the glass smushing the seal the wrong way since it doesn't really want to follow the window channel.
- driver door panel is a bit loose on the top edge, that, plus the rock hard dew wipes, when the glass is down, it clunks side to side.
- if I move the driver door striker any more inwards, the door becomes really hard to shut properly, currently it's at a sweetspot where it closes almost half as nice as the passenger front door. Rear doors rqeuire some effort to close and they still clunk against the strikers when pressed while they're closed. Front door don't do it.
I'm guessing I need new dew wipes, window channels and body to door seals. Both fronts and at least the dew wipes for the rears. I know it's a hunt for you, how about getting that stuff over the pond to Finland?
Gotta say, after the adjustment for the first time, I could hear the wind noise from the passenger side of the car aswell.
If all these things were mint, I wouldn't even consider getting a whale Vic. I just want quiet! And from what I've understood these cars did it pretty damn well when new.
AC: I couldn't pop off the belt, I understood that the tensioner on the AC bracket is one of those spring-loaded ones, I can't get it to budge at all with a 3/4" breaker bar in the slot on the tensioner.
I've called pretty much every respectable shop advertising AC repair and charging, no one wants to / can deal with an R12 based system. I've got one choice left nearby, it's the same shop the car was in last summer.
Trunk still leaks from the corner/body seam. Very little water has pooled in the taillights, not good, but better I guess.
I'll probably clean up the inside of the body seam and sikaflex the shit out of it from the inside. The parcel shelf / C-pillar seam was a suspect too, but that is dry and clean.
I adjusted the driver door a bit more, it's pretty close height-wise, today I pulled the rear-bottom corner a bit outwards.
The wind noise is still an issue and I'm starting to believe it's the weatherstripping rather than misalignment any more.
Dew wipe is rock-hard and split. Window channel is crappy, split in a couple spots and starting to get brittle. I'm guessing the wind noise is a combination of the window channel and body to door seal.
Mostly the wind noise is coming from the back edge and top-rear corner of the door. At 75 MPH it feels almost like a breeze, even though nothing is wrong visibly.
As you can see, the door squishes the seal quite evenly, but the seal is harder in the top-rear corner. Lower from there I push the seal with my finger and see daylight. Not sure if it's the corner or down from there.
Here's how the front corner looks like:
How useful is this flat piece of weatherstripping above the body seal in the front? 'Cause it's hard and loose too.
To note:
- the driver window has come a bit loose from the mechanism it goes up and down on, most likely the damage in the top front corner has come from the glass smushing the seal the wrong way since it doesn't really want to follow the window channel.
- driver door panel is a bit loose on the top edge, that, plus the rock hard dew wipes, when the glass is down, it clunks side to side.
- if I move the driver door striker any more inwards, the door becomes really hard to shut properly, currently it's at a sweetspot where it closes almost half as nice as the passenger front door. Rear doors rqeuire some effort to close and they still clunk against the strikers when pressed while they're closed. Front door don't do it.
I'm guessing I need new dew wipes, window channels and body to door seals. Both fronts and at least the dew wipes for the rears. I know it's a hunt for you, how about getting that stuff over the pond to Finland?
Gotta say, after the adjustment for the first time, I could hear the wind noise from the passenger side of the car aswell.
If all these things were mint, I wouldn't even consider getting a whale Vic. I just want quiet! And from what I've understood these cars did it pretty damn well when new.
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