Hi, while we are on the subject?

Yes, I have read and noticed that all the windshields are the same size in the 240 series.

Yes, the rubber gasket does away with the butyl sealant but I don’t know if there isn’t another one used in place of it. Good questions!
I know that on all the earlier cars, if you go with the new rubber gaskets you have to shed the stainless trim on top.
The gasket does not have the grooves for the trim to fit into.
The new glass maybe made to accept only that rubber gasket or comes fitted already?
So you are literally STUCK with it!

Like I said in the earlier post I feel lumps under the squishy rubber so if there is rust it ripples the surface.
I have been getting by with putting black duct tape over the gasket on my right side and super gluing the edges for a few years. I don’t drive the car in the rain unless I’m caught out in it as I have other cars to jump into!
I do this mostly because of poor workmanship today. It gives you want I hear more often that not, leaking complaints or cracks again!
One day, I may try it myself, out of curiosity, if I can even do it at as equally bad!
Most importantly, The rubber gasket needs a nice pinched welded lip to seat on or around to seal.

Maybe the new gaskets route water away with a subterranean groove out to the base edge of the windshield.
I just don’t know these things!
Maybe someone like Dave or Art have mastered these thoughts?

I have had my rear windows in and out of my 1986 240 wagon to fix rust. A good nylon cord pulls the rubber lips back into place nicely. No butyl’s back there! The water just weeps out until dirt holds it there too much. I surmised, causing rust on the older wagons?
So, I was brave once and it came out all right!
POR 15 did a good job but you got to work within its time limits and that made it a little worrisome.

I read about urethane on “new cars” as it enhances the “integrity” of the upper portion of the cabin.
From the way they want to slap together cars nowadays, I wouldn’t doubt it at all!
I also see a lot of cracked windshields and not from rocks either!
If it’s not debris damage, I wonder if insurances wiggle out of repairing them @ 100% and no deductibles under the comprehensive part of a policy, when it’s known to be a design defect.

Oh! I forget, Insurance companies rate every car differently to compensate for losses on certain makes and models! BlueBook is governed by whom???
SafeLite to the rescue to surround that drain hole!


Phil