Have a guess what i did with this?

[Davezj]

Here are a couple of pics

don't worry about the ripples in the window trim they come off when the plastic gets heated again.

[djb160]

Thanks for the pics, now it actually makes sense to me. I take it the first is a WiP? In the second is that as far back as you put them or is that still a WiP shot?

[Davezj]

yes i pulled the tube back out to take the pics, and as it was so cold today it rippled the rubber as it is quite a tight fit. but the next time it gets hot the rubber has a memory and goes totally straight again.

you can put the tube all way along the window if you like, i put a couple off cuts in there for now to get me through the week and i am going to try to get some black tube from somewhere to replace this stuff then it will just disappear.

[djb160]

If you can would you be able to post up some pics of it working? Like before and afters of the window when filthed up and then cleaned.

[Davezj]

Ok i will see what i can do.

maybe i could use a kettle to steam the windows up.

[Turbo_Steve]

Oh I see on the OUTSIDE! I was thinking "Just use the aircon?" LOL

[Davezj]

yep out side.

you know the situation when you just about to set off the car in morning and go to look out of the side window and the mist has cleared from the inside and it is still left on the out side so you can't see in the mirrors (even if they are heated). you drop the window and put it back up expecting to clear the mist but it doesn't. you have 2 option drive with window open and freeze, or get back out of the car and use some kitchen roll to wipe the outside of the windows. the latter has alway wound me up of a morning.

[GT40-Steven]

So rubber hose 6mm OUTSIDE diameter? I guess a fuelhose would do fine?

[Davezj]

yes i would have thought that would work but it is tight fit in there and a plastic/teflon pipe will slide in there easiler not sure about fuel pipe, insn't that rubber/woven rubber.

it might be worth a go but i would recomend a plastic/teflon/PTFE pipe.

[Kryton]

Sorry for sounding thick but what did you use & where can I get some?

[Davezj]

It is that time of year again and window in the morning are covered in dew/mist.

Any tube that will hold it's shape will do, I used some 6mm O/D PTFE tube because we use it at work. 8mm would probably work as well.
PFTE Is good because it slides over the rubber surfaces and does not catch. It is hard walled due to it being used for gas pressure fittings over 100psi
But you can use anything, black is a good colour to use as it is almost invisible when it is fitted.
Not sure if silicone tubbing would work as it is squishy but as it is cheap stuff 8 mm or 10 mm outside diameter would probably work.
Try it, the silicone stuff is dirt cheap on eBay and once it is in, the grippy silicone surface would mean it would not move after that. It would be a little harder to fit and warming the seals up first with a hair dryer would probably be a good thing.

[SteveH]

Seems like a cool idea, my concern would be when the temperature drops and the tube starts sticking to the glass?

[Davezj]

the tube does touch the glass, all the tube does is puts the widow sealback in roughly the position when the car was new which was before the 13 years of sun, ice, rain and snow have degraded and withered the rubber in the seal. so it has shrunk back away from the window.

if you have a look at the pictures i posted up the tube sits in a U shaped channel that guides the water away and does not touch the glass at all.