Wet windows...Is it normal?
Wet windows...Is it normal?
After it rains and after I wash my car my windows get wet after i roll them down and back up. This happens even when the window is already completely dry and has stopped raining for hours already..sometimes even after 24 hours. It seems like moisture is trapped inside the doors under the weather strip.
Happens to both driver and passenger windows. Is this just my car? Anybody else with this problem?
My old cars, 95 Isuzu Rodeo and 99 Altima never had this problem.
Happens to both driver and passenger windows. Is this just my car? Anybody else with this problem?
My old cars, 95 Isuzu Rodeo and 99 Altima never had this problem.
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Unless the humidity is very low, it takes a good while for the water to completely dry from the weatherstripping the windows pass through as they go up and down.
The weatherstripping the glass must slide through consists of some fuzzy felty type stuff that tends to stay wet. I feel Nissan uses this material in order to reduce the chances of squeaking that might happen with rubber.
Yes, If I lower my windows within an hour (sometimes many hours) or so of washing the car, then immediately raise them again, they have moisture streaks on them.
This problem is not pronounced on vehicles using rubber in that position, or in very dry climates. But I have noticed it on all my Maximas, and Datsuns before that. Considering the material, I feel it is to be expected, and consider this to be a very slight annoyance, not a problem.
The weatherstripping the glass must slide through consists of some fuzzy felty type stuff that tends to stay wet. I feel Nissan uses this material in order to reduce the chances of squeaking that might happen with rubber.
Yes, If I lower my windows within an hour (sometimes many hours) or so of washing the car, then immediately raise them again, they have moisture streaks on them.
This problem is not pronounced on vehicles using rubber in that position, or in very dry climates. But I have noticed it on all my Maximas, and Datsuns before that. Considering the material, I feel it is to be expected, and consider this to be a very slight annoyance, not a problem.
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likewise, ohthatshot.
If my response above seemed a little perfunctory, I didn't mean it that way. I also forget and lower and raise my front windows after emerging from the carwash in order to remove the water from the outside, and it invariably makes things worse.
If my response above seemed a little perfunctory, I didn't mean it that way. I also forget and lower and raise my front windows after emerging from the carwash in order to remove the water from the outside, and it invariably makes things worse.
for me, this is normal.........
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wet too
Originally Posted by ohthatshot
After it rains and after I wash my car my windows get wet after i roll them down and back up. This happens even when the window is already completely dry and has stopped raining for hours already..sometimes even after 24 hours. It seems like moisture is trapped inside the doors under the weather strip.
Happens to both driver and passenger windows. Is this just my car? Anybody else with this problem?
My old cars, 95 Isuzu Rodeo and 99 Altima never had this problem.
Happens to both driver and passenger windows. Is this just my car? Anybody else with this problem?
My old cars, 95 Isuzu Rodeo and 99 Altima never had this problem.
My Maxima does this too, and I find it annoying because the window is streaked and difficult to see through. I don't recall any other vehicle I have driven ever presenting this situation. It's too bad they didn't execute a better design on the windows.
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