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Old 03-20-2024, 12:35 PM
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Any tricks to keeping this roof seal down?
3M exterior trim tape doesn’t hold. I’m guessing this might flop around some when driving.


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Did a little test with a small piece of this stuff and it holds but it’s pretty aggressive. Seems overkill.


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Old 03-20-2024, 02:24 PM
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If it attaches to a plastic frame ( not just paint /clear coat), I might put a dab or two of RTV on the front of that seal.
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It does adhere directly to paint.


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Glad you brought this up. I had the same question. Both sides flap around during/after a drive-thru carwash. It's easy enough to put them back in the channel, but worried one day they'll come off completely.

I was thinking of just putting a small dab of silicone or something underneath each, but wasn't sure that would hold or if that would affect water draining or something. Let us know if you find a solution.
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I have the same exact thing. I saw a guy on YouTube replace those on an E90 I think. I'm not really sure yet what to do. Here are the part #s at least

https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=51_4113
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Im a big fan of this adhesive E6000 it's the best, used it last on the panoramic roof rubber trim, holds nicely and it's been 2years now since.

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I have the same exact thing. I saw a guy on YouTube replace those on an E90 I think. I'm not really sure yet what to do. Here are the part #s at least

https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=51_4113
Replacing it with a new one won't do anything. The finisher (part #1 on your link) has the double sided tape on it and will just fail again. I assume water gets in that channel and eventually the adhesive fails.
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Im a big fan of this adhesive E6000 it's the best, used it last on the panoramic roof rubber trim, holds nicely and it's been 2years now since.

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Are you talking about the outer perimeter rubber seal for the pano glass? You used this stuff to hold the seal back to the body?
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Each glass has a rubber seal surrounding, for me the middle section were the two glass panels meet was a problem section.

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