Hood to Winscreen Fit

[Eric Capron]

Last year I had my windscreen refitted professionally and very expensively by a well known local restorer and it now no longer leaks at the bottom but read on.

I seldom drive the car with the hood up but since the windscreen job at speeds over about 20mph the wind noise is deafening. I am not exaggerating. Whilst it was never exactly quiet before the windscreen job I could quite happily drive at 70mph and listen to the radio and I would say the wind noise was typical of a rag top of the era. Now it is completely deafening and not only that but when it rains water comes in at the top which it didn't used to.

I have replaced the front top seal with a new one but it made no difference.

There is a gap of about 1/4" between the chrome finisher on the hood and the chrome on top of the screen through which I can see the seal which appears compressed as you would expect. Is this usual? All three latches are tensioned nicely.

I can't figure out what's wrong or how to get the hood (which is only three years old) to seal that way it used to.

Any thoughts on this?

Eric

[Heuer]

Eric

Are you sure the seal has been fitted the correct way around?

[Eric Capron]

David

Well the groove looked slightly asymmetric and so did the seal so I fitted it so the two matched. It seemed a good fit when pressed into the groove. Is there more to it than that?

Eric