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Lotus Europa Forums => Garage => Topic started by: StephenH on Sunday,October 16, 2016, 11:24:21 PM
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Had the drivers window stop short of closed (up).
Having a look, the felt in the vertical runner has gotten loose and had migrated up the aluminium runner/channel a bit, bunching up and causing the window to nip up.
I can pull it back down, but the felt itself doesn't appear to have anything to hold it captive, or do I have a clip of some sort missing?
I see a couple of clips mentioned on the Banks sites, is this what I'm missing?
They look more like they below to the horizontal seal....?
(http://www.parts.banks-europa.co.uk/photos/bf0033.jpg)
(http://www.parts.banks-europa.co.uk/photos/bf0067.jpg)
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Those clips look more like the ones used to hold the horizontal strips, certainly when I did the Elan this year I used something very similar. From what you describe I'm assuming it's the felt runner inside the aluminium "U" channel that's rucking up ? I don't recall clips with that assembly but it is a very long time since I looked a the Europa so I could easily have forgotten.
My money would be on the window runner being glued in place on the "U" channel though.
Brian
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Yup, those clips are for the horizontal for window "wipe" seals. The window channel seal just pops into place. It's not just felt, there is a rubber backing. Perhaps a PO used just felt in the past?