Folks - I have a plastic/rubber trim along the bottom of my rear windscreen and I noticed on another FF I was following this morning that it didn't have one. I then walked past another FF in our carpark which also didn't have it. Did some cars have this, and some not? Or have both of the cars I've seen just lost the trim?

Rich.

should be one ...its between the bottom of the glass and the top of the metal part of the upper tailgate.. ... - .- -.




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Yeah, that's the one, cheers Scarey. Mine doesn't seem to be completely right after a warranty tailgate replacement and I'm just deciding whether to ask for the trim to be replaced or not.... I think I'll let sleeping dogs lie and put up with it.

hopefully it wont leak water..  ... - .- -.




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Fairly sure it's just a cosmetic piece of trim, rather than forming part of the seal. You had to place doubt didn't you!!

rich, I have a 57 plate 2008MY model and it doesn't have a trim at the bottom of the rear screen

pic...... seems to keep the glass from knocking the metal..

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Cheers Simon. Hmm. The 2 cars I've seen without the trim were 57 plates (and yours makes 3) and mine is an 07 WITH the trim. Wonder if it's a variation across the years. I'll be looking at every car I see now!!

Thanks for the pic Scarey, that's the one. On the cars I've seen without the trim, there seems to be a bit of clearance between the glass and bodywork. The trim on mine (and as per your pic) just looks like a finishing strip to match the way it's finished on the side windows. So has it fallen off these cars, or been removed, or intentionally omitted at the factory I wonder....

i'll be looking at them now..  ... - .- -.




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Here's the back of mine to start you off with this weird hobby of seeing who does and does not have a finishing strip

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Ha ha, what have I started! Should have made it a survey

The finishing strip was dropped on later models for a cleaner fresher look.

Its one way that an older model 2010/11/12 conversion can be recognised.

For the record the trim slides out sideways with light tapping with an appropriate instrument....

IMHO opinion it looks much better without it.

Gary