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Driver's Side Wind Noise + Armrest Extender for '03 OBW
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Re: Driver's Side Wind Noise + Armrest Extender for '03 OBW -
02-18-2007
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Welcome to the absurd stupidity of the Subaru noisy windows. Years and years of making these cars and they could not get it right. The post has become too long so I did not read it. Sorry if i am repeating someone else. I am going to tell you what worked for me: The glass in the front doors of your car have something like 6 adjustments. These control the position of the glass in the door(in or out), the angle with which it comes out of the door, the position front/aft and also its inclination (forward/rearward). Sooo, I looked at the other side door as to get an idea of what I wanted to achieve and then adjusted the noisy door to look just like the quiet one. It did work. If you provide me with an email address I will forward you the section of the catalog that deals with the adjustments. Hope this helps. AS M. Baker wrote: Oh - I already tried that and it didn't make any difference in the wind noise. And I don't have crossbars up top. On Feb 13, 5:26 pm, Carl 1 Lucky Texan <alcky... (AT) swbell (DOT) not> wrote: M. Baker wrote: Yes, a picture would be great. Not sure what rubber needs to be squished? It seems more like a tension issue between the glass and the rubber, to me. If the glass fit more snugly to the rubber, it would seem the noise would stop. Dan Langille wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:26:44 -0600, Carl 1 Lucky Texan alcky... (AT) swbell (DOT) not> wrote: Have u tried lowering the window and squishing the rubber together? If you do that and train youself to NOT close the door pushing on the glass, the fix lasts a long time - at least it does on my wife's Outback. A picture would help. If someone can post a picture showing what is being squeezed and how, it would benefit many. -- Dan Langille PGCON -The PostgresSQL Conference http://www.pgcon.org/ The black, triangular object to which the outside mirror is attached that is on the forward part of the door;http://www.burnleycaraudio.co.uk/upl...WR1%20Door.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/2bd3nk has some rubber 'lips' on its rear openeing in which the glass slides. Those lips can be pushed together by exerting an inward force on the mirror and an outward force on the inside (or tweeter area if so equipped) of the triangle. Even though the sound often appears to come from higher up and more rearward (to me anyway) this action really does help. Other folks have found that useing pieces of masking tape on the mirror mount, wiper arm, winshield gasket, etc. has helped them find noise generators. If youe winshield or wipers have been replaced, that can create noise. Also, on wagons, sometimes the crossbars can be noisy if in the wrong position or installed backwards. Carl -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Why don't you post it here so everyone can see it. This was you won't have to send a lot of e-mails and everyone can take advantage of it. "AS" <donot (AT) spame (DOT) com> wrote in message news:sBQBh.3436$tD2.72 (AT) newsread1 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net... Welcome to the absurd stupidity of the Subaru noisy windows. Years and years of making these cars and they could not get it right. The post has become too long so I did not read it. Sorry if i am repeating someone else. I am going to tell you what worked for me: The glass in the front doors of your car have something like 6 adjustments. These control the position of the glass in the door(in or out), the angle with which it comes out of the door, the position front/aft and also its inclination (forward/rearward). Sooo, I looked at the other side door as to get an idea of what I wanted to achieve and then adjusted the noisy door to look just like the quiet one. It did work. If you provide me with an email address I will forward you the section of the catalog that deals with the adjustments. Hope this helps. AS M. Baker wrote: Oh - I already tried that and it didn't make any difference in the wind noise. And I don't have crossbars up top. On Feb 13, 5:26 pm, Carl 1 Lucky Texan <alcky... (AT) swbell (DOT) not> wrote: M. Baker wrote: Yes, a picture would be great. Not sure what rubber needs to be squished? It seems more like a tension issue between the glass and the rubber, to me. If the glass fit more snugly to the rubber, it would seem the noise would stop. Dan Langille wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:26:44 -0600, Carl 1 Lucky Texan alcky... (AT) swbell (DOT) not> wrote: Have u tried lowering the window and squishing the rubber together? If you do that and train youself to NOT close the door pushing on the glass, the fix lasts a long time - at least it does on my wife's Outback. A picture would help. If someone can post a picture showing what is being squeezed and how, it would benefit many. -- Dan Langille PGCON -The PostgresSQL Conference http://www.pgcon.org/ The black, triangular object to which the outside mirror is attached that is on the forward part of the door;http://www.burnleycaraudio.co.uk/upl...WR1%20Door.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/2bd3nk has some rubber 'lips' on its rear openeing in which the glass slides. Those lips can be pushed together by exerting an inward force on the mirror and an outward force on the inside (or tweeter area if so equipped) of the triangle. Even though the sound often appears to come from higher up and more rearward (to me anyway) this action really does help. Other folks have found that useing pieces of masking tape on the mirror mount, wiper arm, winshield gasket, etc. has helped them find noise generators. If youe winshield or wipers have been replaced, that can create noise. Also, on wagons, sometimes the crossbars can be noisy if in the wrong position or installed backwards. Carl -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Two reasons: Copy Right issues and not knowing how to post it here. Jeff wrote: Why don't you post it here so everyone can see it. This was you won't have to send a lot of e-mails and everyone can take advantage of it. "AS" <d... (AT) spame (DOT) com> wrote in message news:sBQBh.3436$tD2.72 (AT) newsread1 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net... Welcome to the absurd stupidity of the Subaru noisy windows. Years and years of making these cars and they could not get it right. The post has become too long so I did not read it. Sorry if i am repeating someone else. I am going to tell you what worked for me: The glass in the front doors of your car have something like 6 adjustments. These control the position of the glass in the door(in or out), the angle with which it comes out of the door, the position front/aft and also its inclination (forward/rearward). Sooo, I looked at the other side door as to get an idea of what I wanted to achieve and then adjusted the noisy door to look just like the quiet one. It did work. If you provide me with an email address I will forward you the section of the catalog that deals with the adjustments. Hope this helps. AS M. Baker wrote: Oh - I already tried that and it didn't make any difference in the wind noise. And I don't have crossbars up top. On Feb 13, 5:26 pm, Carl 1 Lucky Texan <alcky... (AT) swbell (DOT) not> wrote: M. Baker wrote: Yes, a picture would be great. Not sure what rubber needs to be squished? It seems more like a tension issue between the glass and the rubber, to me. If the glass fit more snugly to the rubber, it would seem the noise would stop. Dan Langille wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:26:44 -0600, Carl 1 Lucky Texan alcky... (AT) swbell (DOT) not> wrote: Have u tried lowering the window and squishing the rubber together? If you do that and train youself to NOT close the door pushing on the glass, the fix lasts a long time - at least it does on my wife's Outback. A picture would help. If someone can post a picture showing what is being squeezed and how, it would benefit many. -- Dan Langille PGCON -The PostgresSQL Conference http://www.pgcon.org/ The black, triangular object to which the outside mirror is attached that is on the forward part of the door;http://www.burnleycaraudio.co.uk/upl...WR1%20Door.jpg or http://tinyurl.com/2bd3nk has some rubber 'lips' on its rear openeing in which the glass slides. Those lips can be pushed together by exerting an inward force on the mirror and an outward force on the inside (or tweeter area if so equipped) of the triangle. Even though the sound often appears to come from higher up and more rearward (to me anyway) this action really does help. Other folks have found that useing pieces of masking tape on the mirror mount, wiper arm, winshield gasket, etc. has helped them find noise generators. If youe winshield or wipers have been replaced, that can create noise. Also, on wagons, sometimes the crossbars can be noisy if in the wrong position or installed backwards. Carl -- to reply, change ( .not) to ( .net)- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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You can get my email addy from my posts above. Just click on "View Profile" next to my screen name, then click on the partial email addy that shows, and type in the characters to unlock the addy.  |
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Todd H.
2001 Legacy Outback Wagon, 2.5L H-4
Chicago, Illinois USA
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"M. Baker" <thebakers... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> writes: You can get my email addy from my posts above. Just click on "View Profile" next to my screen name, then click on the partial email addy that shows, and type in the characters to unlock the addy. FYI, for anyone reading your post not on google groups, it shows plain as day (rewritten so you see it) thebakersmml at hotmail dot com -- Todd H. 2001 Legacy Outback Wagon, 2.5L H-4 Chicago, Illinois USA |
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