Hey guys there must be a cheaper option other than CZP's $500 complete weather strips option? I mean $209 just for the windows!?!?! WHAT THA!
Ahh you should see the price of the roof moulding those cost me $700 from memory plus a new targa centre bar. oh and I did the doors and quarter windows. Big spender.
Unfortunately no...i got the full set of kuruma window mouldings and roof mouldings as well as a centre hook finisher. Its not cheap at all but its your only option unless you can find somebody to custom make them. Abraham
lol yeah i mean i restored a HT Premier a few years ago, and bloody hell the rubber where expensive. i had to buy all the weather strips, but the worst where the little front quarter windows! ill just have to suck it up i guess....I keep finding out some expensive jobs i have to do and shift the to the bottom of the list real quick haha
Mate have a look into a product and do a search for plastidip on the forum. People have restrored their strips with this before. I just stripped my mouldings with a sharp paint scrapers and blade today. Tomorrow i will paint them. Will cost you about 50 bucks in materials and a few hours of time.
yep, i used "Plastidip" with great effect .... ( on Ebay, out of Sydney). Brisz also had another, similar product ... PHELMIFFUG or something funny like that ... .. but, at the end of the day, these products are restorers not a new strip ...
Using plastic acrylic spray on trims Yeh - I got the kuruma's but did my trim with plastic acrylic motosport new acrylic pressure can pack - came up really nice - as new then clear laquered over the top to protect the finish. The trick is to make sure they are very clean before starting so that the paint sticks to the trim (clean back with scraper then use sand paper then metho to wipe and dry) prep and spraying old and new comparison and the finished product - all new again I also got my old weatherstrips and did them to see how it would go and they turned out good as well, but are much blacker and glossier than the new kuruma's, but it still turns out well as the paint will bend enough, but if you use clear over the top on the weatherstrips you have to use flexible additive (paint clear by hand) Saves $$$$
Plastikote by project paint was a good one as well - I was told they dont make the VHT type anymore but havent confirmed it as yet, but it was good because it also had a satin black version not just a gloss version.
well if you see my car, you'll notice i took the rubber off the trim that runs on the pillar up through to the targa tops....and ive polished them to a shine! so i only really want to get the weather strips along the bottom of the windows
