other windscreem properties

Finally had an annoying leak at the top of the windscreen fixed today and found out something that will probably not be news to some but certainly was to me.

It doesn't rain much here but where we are going for holidays it tends to. The gu has had an annoying leak around the top of the windscreen since we bought it secondhand some time ago, so time to get it fixed before we go. I had thought the wind was forcing water up past what I believed was the seal around the outside of the windscreen.

It turns out the seal is only a trim and the screen is actually glued in place with urethane. The windscreen fitter showed me where ours was loose around much of its perimeter and not bonded at all at the top. Apparently when one of these screens is fitted it needs to be primed before it will bond properly with the urethane and ours probably had not been.

I had noticed on a previous trip when the screen had been leaking, that it was moving in relation to the roof lining. Not a great deal but enough that you could definitely feel it with your finger as the body flexed over bumps. Yep these new cars are p weak I thought. Turns out it is important that the windscreen is properly bonded, not just to stop it leaking, but also because it forms part of the structural integrity of the car. Hmmmm clever little engineers.