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steveav

New Member

• Nov 10, 2013

• #1

Anybody used Paddocks Window Channel. Read all the posts on best way to fit existing glazing into new door tops and all seemed cool. But Ali spacers and any type of fixing make the window impossible to slide. If I remove both window slides gracefully. Design fault? badly fixed by me? similar experience? If you know a better product let me know.
Cheers

 

blue beasty

Leaks an prone to bits dropping off

• Nov 10, 2013

• #2

Bought some plastic channel at The Bristol and West LR show from these guys Home ....dunno if you need to join to use the shop but it's head and shoulders above anything else I've seen

 

blue beasty

Leaks an prone to bits dropping off

• Nov 10, 2013

• #3

:welcome2: btw

 

OZAWOZA

Active Member

• Nov 10, 2013

• #4

I know the Series 3 Club sell window channel, but not sure if the standard wrapped steel stuff, or plastic channel

Window Channel

I also Know that Rocky Mountain do an aluminium and rubber track that used when I had a Station Wagon back on Gerty, which was excellent quality, but not sure if that would fit in the front window tops - may be worth giving them a shout though?

Rocky Mountain Spares UK > Improved Engineered Parts and Accessories for your Land Rover

When I did the Channels to the front window tops I just used standard window channel from Paddocks (I think it worked out to about £2.50 - £3 for each window)...bedded it in with RTV silicone keep the drain holes clear and no signs of problems yet (about 3 years)

 

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OZAWOZA

Active Member

• Nov 10, 2013

• #5

......Oops - just realised that the link to the people you referred to was the Series 3 club anyway.

What I did need to do was countersink the screw head inside the channel slightly to help the windows run free,and again set them in RTV. I then found that I could sort of adjust the friction on the sliding pane by tightening or loosening the screw slightly until I got it just right (seemed to close the channel down by tightening up)

 

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steveav

New Member

• Nov 12, 2013

• #6

Thanks all, I'm going to buy the Owners Club type to see if it makes life easier. Paddocks put me onto the Door Top manufacturer who were very helpful. Two tips were to bolt the door top on to the bottom as doing up the nuts often pulls the channel down and secondly to prise the top joint, at the sliding window end, open by a couple of mill, seems a bit drastic but worth giving everything a try.