Getting to know Universal Run Channel Weather Stripping.
After many years of window cars have been used, Is the window glass starting to stiffen and get stuck? Is there any difficulty, a jerk or creaking sound when moving up and down the window glass? It may be a signal to warn that it’s time to replace the new Window Glass Run Channel.
Window Glass Run Channel, also known as Bailey Channel, the function of this part is controlling the smooth movement of window glass, preventing noise and outside air enter to inside cabin (weather seal).
The most important part of Window Glass Run Channel is the surface that contact with the glass window. Therefore, the contact surface must be adjusted to does not have the friction with the glass and the mirror still can move up-down smoothly. In the part of adjusting the contact surface to reduce the friction can do as various methods as follow:
- Flocking - It is a powder of 1-2 mm., sprayed onto the rubber surface and then attached it with the glue. This kind of technology is very popular nowadays because the price is not that high compared to other methods.
- Fur - the appearance look like flocking but it has the fur length ranging from 1-5 mm., and often need to be fixed with a frame stainless. It is widely used in classic car but the size of frame stainless is quite large according to the window size. So, it makes transportation quite difficult and expensive too.
- Coating - It is the method that coating the rubber with special chemicals that reduces friction on the contact surface on the rubber. If looking only the appearance of the surface with your naked eyes, maybe it is indistinguishable between the coated or the normal rubber. Here is some demonstration video clip comparing performance of coating and non-coating rubber.
Universal Run Channel Weatherstrip replacement can be installed in a wide variety of cars model especially in a classic car that has a similar groove in the window frame, also has similar rail size as W x H = 15 x 10 mm. which can be installed as our Universal Glass Run Channel No. 017 for example model of : Toyota Corolla KE10, Toyota Corolla KE20, Toyota Corolla KE30, Toyota Hilux RN20, Toyota Hilux RN30, Toyota Hilux LN50 LN60 and more.
Universal glass run channel 017
Tip for cornering Glass Run Channel with window frame.
Generally, window glass corner usually have two main types of cornering as :
- Sharp corner : Cornering the rubber and bend into different degrees. You can cornering Universal Glass Run Channel and trimming it in a triangle shape on both side of the rubber at the location that needs to be folded as shown in the picture.
- Curve corner : Cornering as a curved corner by cutting the gap section of Universal Glass Run Channel as shown in the picture. So the rubber will be curved and fit into the groove of the frame perfectly.
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In addition, there are specified model of Glass Run Channel that you can browse on our website, which it is perfectly fit to the corner of window glass as it is the moulded joint in various position. It can be installed easily without any additional trimming. For these model it cannot use Universal Glass Run Channel replacement such as :
Glass run Nissan D21 with Vent RH
Glass run Nissan D21 without Vent
Glass run Nissan D22 with Vent - sky star