I'm looking for various sorts of (new) side window rubber wiper thingies for the roll-up windows on my project. Whaddya call those? My searches keep turning up only windshield channel rubber...
I'm looking for various sorts of (new) side window rubber wiper thingies for the roll-up windows on my project. Whaddya call those? My searches keep turning up only windshield channel rubber...
It's a '79 Civic, with extremely dry weatherstrip. I've found a universal everything except for these rubber window scraper thingies (that every car has) and it's the last piece of the puzzle. That puzzle, anyway.
The term "felts" jumps to mind as something I've heard them called...but probably just some vernacular that doesn't really mean anything...
Felts are the vertical parts that the window is sandwiched between and slides on. Scrapers are the horizontal ones at the bottom of the window opening.
Try "Steele Rubber Products" they may have just a bit bigger selection then JC Whitney. http://www.steelerubber.com/?section=10
Finally, after spending a large chunk of time today, I have figured out that the name with the most results is....
"Belt Weatherstrip"
In Ford-speak, it is called a "dew wipe". I have seen the horizontal wipe called inner/outer door belt weatherstrip by most everyone else, sometimes.
In reply to sobe_death:
In Toyota-speak it is a "beltline moulding" with an inner beltline moulding and an outer beltline moulding depending on which surface of the side window it wipes.
Pretty much the whole restoration industry calls them weatherstrips or "window fuzzies", I'm not kidding.
There's scrapers and then there's the felt fuzzies that snap into the window channels down inside the door. Over time the scrapers crack and fall apart and the door channel fuzzies loose their felt and add resistance to the window as it rolls up and down. Here's one place that has some nice measured drawings. http://www.stanpro.com/windowchannels.aspx
The general body shop term is usually "belt weatherstripping" or "beltline molding."
https://www.google.com/search?q=belt+weatherstripping&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=rsW&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=6WszUce-L4y_0QGehoGQBw&ved=0CFoQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=643
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