1984 BMW 325 Rear window rubber slips down in upper corner

Did you experience leakage? Have you asked the glass guy if the glass was original BMW glass, does the decal bear it out?

It is the original window, so that isn't the problem. In talking with another online source, we both think that once the gasket went on, he should have applied upward pressure with tape and/or suction cups before installing the lockstrip. Any thoughts?

No, there hasn't been any leakage yet, but I am deliberately keeping it as dry as I can. You can plainly tell the strip exposes the body at the upper corners. I will forward a picture soon.

Thank you, I will await the image.

Here are a few pics. You can see that the whole window is low about 1/8 to 1/4 inch or so.

Is anyone there? I sent off these pics several hours ago.

I am not able to capture the images from this station, I will be able to from my home after work today, sorry for the delay.

Still unable to see the car, but I did have a similar car in the shop for repairs and it seemed to exhibit the same sagging at the top corners, perhaps not to the same degree, but the gap was about â…› of an inch or so.

Yes, it sounds like the same thing. What did you do to fix it? I toughtr the rubber was old, so I replaced it. Now it is doing the same thing. There must be something like taping it high during the locking strip installation to keep it from sagging. Any ideas?

I recommend checking for water leakage.

I can promise you it leaks; what I hopefully will learn from these online chats is a way to get it to where it should be again. I am getting close to figuring out for myself. Do you have a suggestion that should work? Lots of european cars from 1950-1988 had these rubber gaskets with lockstrips, so I can't imagine there isn't someone out there who knows the exact procedure so we can see if a step was missed by my tech.

Maybe I am missing something here. The installation was performed with the "soap it and rope it" technique, the window lace was new and installed correctly, and your glass guy is standing behind the work. If this is correct, then the leak test would be exempted because it looks like it is going to leak, right?

No, it was installed (original glass) by my BMW repairman, not a glass man. He did not rope it in, he prefers to spray silicone in the track and rubber. Then he uses a roller device that slips the lockstrip in place. When he did this about six months ago, it didn't show as badly, but it did show some. Of course, since I have a great relationship with him, I coould demand he redo it. But, if he didn't do it right to begin with, I hesitate to have him redo it.

Regarding leaks- I don't care if it leaks or not at this point- I just know it looks wrong. Since I am putting a lot of money into this car, I just want it right. Plus, you can tell by looking that it will probably leak.

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