Thread: how are your moldings?

besides engine and suspension, one of the obstacles I face with this 20 year old car is the moldings. 90% of them are all hardened and break off or missing from previous years and owners. Even if I go to the junkyard, I could search for years for a decent set or even the one that I'm lookin for. Lately, I realized the one making the most noise for me is the one that's discontinued, the window welt. This one connects the outside frame to the channels in the window for the door. The pieces from the outside of the oem seat belt bracket on the door is ripped off, so it doesn't grab the window(so theres a big gap and the window shifts left and right) and the pieces in the window channel is ripped, so it's loud while I'm driving w/ sounds of gushing wind. I think if I take care of this big one, I should be fine. But its discontinued so I can't spend $170 on a molding even if I wanted to! ha
How are you guys fixing your molding issues? I was able to find a decent one and used silicone to connect the moldings together, but as you can imagine, it doesn't work well, but it did cut 50% of the noise from the wind. I've seen some custom moldings from Rock Auto, but they're limited in their shapes. I may try to make something from there as that's the only choice I have. Unless I find a vendor or someone selling new discontinued moldings or I get lucky at a junkyard.

Same boat here man, The outside molding on both drivers side and passengers side running across the top off the window down the side have shrunk and the bottom right corner does not meet the felt trim piece that runs along the bottom of the window. I dought it's at the point of making much noise but is something I would like to be able to fix. The tsuru are still being made in mexico (b13). I would think that if we knew someone that lived there they could check into these moulding for us. I would assume there being produced over there. Dave

http://www.sr20-forum.com/g-spec-performance/61371-official-b13-weatherstrip-thread.html?

according to that link, people on here are saying 2 doors are no longer made and it's only 4 door in mexico. So unless you have a 4 door, then we need custom moldings... But, I'm sure some where in this world there has to be stocks of this stuff left...=p

Well shiet, haha. Yea i got a 2 door. Maybe something will pop up randomly or if there is enough demand maybe nissan would make some, but highly unlikely. Dave

I'm going to try something to see if it works, so i'll keep you posted...

Nissan would sell a shitload of these if they made them again.It seems like a new post pops up about them every couple of days...lol

Not gonna happen. But maybe moldings from another car could work? What about the J30 Maxima or U12 Stanza? Anyone know if some of those are compatible?

I replaced the the string that sit on the bottom of the door for about 60$ got lucky and found some on Ebay.